Day 3: Resilient Places
Session 1: Blether (10.00am - 10.45am)
Christina Gaiger PRIAS will be joined by Walter Menteth, lead consultant architect and an architecture, planning and design practitioner, writer, researcher and educator, for an interactive conversation focussing on resilient places and the role of procurement.
Session 2: Collaboration and innovation at the heart of planning and creating resilient, green, healthy and high quality places and communities. - learning from award winning examples (11.15am - 12.45pm)
Chaired by Rachel Tennant, Chair, Landscape Institute Scotland
Presentations from the below speakers followed by a Q&A
Sheena Raeburn, Raeburn Farquhar Bowen: Forth Valley Royal Hospital and Larbert Woods, winner of the Landscape Institute Building with Nature Award in 2020, is a national exemplar for green infrastructure in the built environment. The scheme demonstrates what is possible when a shared vision between ambitious and committed partners is delivered capturing the preventative health benefits of green infrastructure now and long into the future
Antony McGuiness: West Dunbartonshire Council’s Local Development Plan 2 was the first strategic policy document to use the Building with Nature Standards to bring forward local plan policies which put high quality green infrastructure at the heart of policy making and development strategy. The plan was awarded an "Excellent" accreditation by Building with Nature and ensures a GI first approach to development and one that creates quality places and spaces in tandem with nature.
Samuel Cortis: Joint Winner of Mark Turnbull Travel Award: Making Room for Social Spaces - Learning from Europe on how community and collectively focused landscapes can shape development strategies for Scotland. Cities that are brave and entrust communities with spaces and opportunities can be rewarded with neighbourhoods that strive for new responsibility and independence. An empowered community creates greater opportunity for more socially minded design and can help shape development strategies.
Dr Amber Roberts: Joint Winner of Mark Turnbull Travel Award – Food and Flood Resilience: Climate Change Innovations - Learning from Europe. Designing for food and flood security continue to grow in importance as extreme weather events become more prevalent. Models from France demonstrate how we can produce our food, ensure supply chains and meet nutritional needs whilst integrating practices that are less detrimental to the environment and more resilient to changes in weather systems? Ensuring flood resilience in Scotland could be acheived by incorporating a wider range of solutions demonstrated in the Netherlands that work together to alleviate flood risk problems.
Session 3: Regenerative development – the essential new paradigm (1.00pm - 1.30pm)
Michael Pawlyn, Founder, Exploration Architecture
In this talk Michael Pawlyn will reflect on the worrying reality that 30 years of sustainable development has not brought humanity anywhere near to addressing climate change and biodiversity loss. Drawing on his new book, Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency, co-authored with Sarah Ichioka, he will make the case for a bold new paradigm of regenerative development and will describe what this means for built environment professionals.
Michael Pawlyn established Exploration Architecture in 2007 to focus on regenerative design. His TED talk has had over 2 million viewings and his book Biomimicry in Architecture has been RIBA Publications’ best-selling title. In 2019 he jointly initiated ‘Architects Declare’ which now has over 6,000 companies in 27 countries signed up to addressing the planetary crisis. His latest book, co-authored book with Sarah Ichioka, Flourish: Design paradigms for a planetary emergency will be published by Triarchy Press in September 2021. He is increasingly involved in advising governments and companies on how to make the transition to regenerative development.
Session 4: Virtual sustainability speed mentoring (7.00pm)
Delivered in collaboration with RIBA Smart Practice Conference, this session will provide the opportunity to pair up with highly respected mentors for three 20-minute one-on-one conversations (numbers for this session are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis)