The Living Future Institute of Australia Symposium brings thought leaders and regenerative design practitioners together to inspire change in Australia’s built environment. It emboldens professionals to join the movement and think about how their work can promote social justice, cultural richness, and ecological restoration. The 2022 Symposium theme, ‘Regenerate’ calls for everyone involved to lead and collectively build the vision of a ‘Living Future’ that seeks solutions to the most challenging issues of our time.
LFIA SYMPOSIUM 2022
DETAILS
Date: 7-11 March, 2022
Location: Melbourne, Sydney + online
Regenerate will be held over five days, in two cities, in-person and online. We’ll gather in person in Melbourne at Petal Certified Burwood Brickworks and in Botanic House in Sydney.
All online broadcast sessions will be presented on Zoom.
SPEAKERS
ALANA MARSH
Wayapa Wuuurrk Practitioner
ALICE HOWARD-VYSE
Director, Humanise This
AMANDA MORGAN
Co-Founder, Fungi Solutions Pty Ltd
ANNA CRABB
CEO, Australian Energy Foundation
DR BILQUIS GHANI
Co-Founder, Hunar
CARLOS FLORES
Director, NABERS
DANNY ALMAGOR
Chair, Small Giants
DAVID PALIN
National Sustainability Manager, Mirvac
JORGE CHAPA
Head of Market Transformation, Green Building Council of Australia
GUY STURT
Director, Sturt Noble Associates
PROF JANE BURRY
Dean of the School of Design, Swinburne University of Technology
JANE KERN
Senior Manager Impact Finance, Bank Australia
JACK NOONAN
Vice President, International WELL Building Institute Asia Pacific
JACQUELINE FETCHET
Renewable Energy Lawyer
JESS HARWOOD
Artist
KAJ LÖFGREN
Strategy Lead, Regen Melbourne
KATIE FALLOWFIELD
WSP Australia + LFIA Board
LAURA HAMILTON-O’HARA
CEO, Living Future Institute of Australia
MELANIE BISHOP
Co-founder, Living Seawalls
DR MICHAEL E. MANN
Director, Earth System Science Center
NICHOLLE SPARKES
General Manager, Delivery and Operations – Frasers Property Australia
OMAID SHARIFI
President, ArtLords
PAUL WALL
Design Strategy lead, PaperThinkLAB
PERI MACDONALD
CEO, ARK Capital Funds
RORY COSTELLOEFounder and co-Executive Director, Villawood Properties
RYAN RATHBORNE
Joint Property Lead, Clean Energy Finance Corporation
STEPHEN CHOI
Living Building Challenge Manager, Frasers Property Australia
SUZIE BARNETT
CEO, Junglefy
SACHA COLES
Design and Strategy Director, ASPECT Studios
SARAH LADYMAN
Experience Designer
SEAN TREWICK
CEO, Circular Economy Victoria
SHONA FITZGERALD
Water & Sanitation Specialist, The World Bank
TIM EVANS
Co-founder, Piratti Bakery
TERRY DALGLEISH
South East Water
THULANI VUYO KUZWAYO
Design Strategy lead, PaperThinkLAB
TOM GROSSKOPF
Chair of LFIA Board
ZALI STEGGALL
Independent Federal Member, Warringah
VENUES
The in-person venue for Melbourne is Petal Certified Burwood Brickworks, the first shopping centre in the world to receive a Living Buiding Challenge Certification. In Sydney, the venue will be Botanic House surrounded by nature in the Royal Botanic Gardens.
REGENERATE
The Symposium’s theme is ‘regenerate’. This is in part, to inspire attendees with the Living Building Challenge’s regenerative design approach. It also pays homage to those that have faced the challenge of the pandemic and our climate crisis and have evolved into industry leaders.
Behind the artwork for this year’s Symposium.
The simple images developed for the Symposium reflect and honour the power of landscape, plants and animals. Their power is in their beauty, unique and organic forms, and interconnectedness. I hope they remind us there is no teacher like our Mother. Now is the time to learn to love her, and be loved by her, more fully.
Jessica Miller
About the Artist
Jessica is a visual artist who works with a variety of styles, always on the topic of honouring nature. A childhood spent by the beach, and roaming around bushy and weedy areas, has evolved into a deep dedication to living naturally and advocating for our whole earth in everything she does. She is an ecologist, scientist, artist, storyteller and the Founder of Weave Projects, a sustainability consultancy based in Newcastle, Australia.
