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The International Urban Design Conference will be held at the SMC Conference and Function Centre, Sydney, NSW from Monday 12 – Tuesday 13 November 2018. The conference will showcase innovations in projects and research embracing and creating transformational change in urban environments.

Topics will include exploring the potential of mixed use places, spaces and precincts/districts, urban design best practice, designing safety into a city, future proofing, connectivity and design quality outcomes.

The conference will also explore the links which create the concrete physicality of the built environment, the complex social, economic, political and cultural processes through which the physical urban form is produced and consumed.

The conference has been held annually since 2007 in Brisbane, Sydney, Gold Coast, Canberra, Adelaide and Melbourne. Be inspired by innovations and projects that are transforming cities. This conference is an opportunity for design professionals to exchange ideas and experiences, to be creative and visionary and to contribute to redesigning our urban futures. The program aims at developing a framework of ideas to provoke debate and speculate on new forms of practice.

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Conference Topics

Potential of mixed use places, spaces and precincts/districts
Regulating urban design
Safe city design
Transport
Design Quality
Digital

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Featured Speakers

Confirmed

Mr Peter Poulet, NSW Government Architect, NSW Government
Ms Sue Weatherley, Director Strategic Outcomes and Development, City of Parramatta
Ms Sarah Hill, CEO, Greater Sydney Commission, NSW
Mr Andrew McWhinney, Manager, New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory, Intelligent Risks
Ms Caroline Stalker, Design Director Urban and Principal, ARUP Australasia (QLD)

Invited

The Hon Paul Fletcher, Minister for Urban Infrastructure & Cities, Australian Government
Mr John Lin, Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong & Co-founder, Rural Urban Framework (HK)
Mr Ludo Campbell Reid, General Manager Auckland Design Council, New Zealand
Mr Kobus Mentz, Director, Urbanism+

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Program Advisory Committee

Mr Geoff Barker, Managing Director, PM+D ARCHITECTS P/L (WA/NT)
Dr Beau B. Beza, Course Director, Planning and Landscape Architecture Program, School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University (VIC)
Mr Craig Gillette, Principal Advisor – Urban Design, Planning and Development, Department of Health and Human Services (VIC)
Ms Emily Mottram, Acting Executive Director Inner Melbourne, Victorian Planning Authority (VIC)
Mr Michael Neustein, Director/Architect & Urban Planner/Designer, City Planning Works (NSW)
Mr Alistair Ray, Principal – Head of Urban Design , Jasmax (NZ)
Ms Caroline Stalker, Australasian Design Director (Urban), Principal, ARUP (QLD)
Prof Edward Sullivan, Portland University, Oregon (USA)

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Conference Snapshot 2018

Day 1 - Monday 12 November

8.30am – 9.00am: Conference Opening Session & Speed Networking Session
9.00am – 10.30am: Keynote Session
10.30am – 11.00am: Morning Tea
11.00am – 12.30pm: Concurrent Sessions
12.30pm – 1.30pm: Lunch
1.30pm – 3.30pm: Concurrent Sessions
3.00pm – 3.30pm: Afternoon Tea
3.30pm – 5.00pm: Concurrent Sessions
5.00pm – 6.30pm: Networking Function

Day 2 - Tuesday 13 November

9.00am – 10.30am: Keynote Session
10.30am – 11.00am: Morning Tea
11.00am – 12.30pm: Concurrent Sessions
12.30pm – 1.30pm: Lunch
1.30pm – 3.00pm: Concurrent Sessions
3.00pm – 3.30pm: Afternoon Tea
3.30pm – 5.00pm: Keynote Session & Conference Closing