OUR COMMON HOME – UNSW Design Studio

Each of the 18 architecture students has prepared a poster capturing their initial findings and their first thoughts on the challenges facing our parish in the coming years. The evening is an open, informal format – you are welcome to come and go at any time – and to speak with as many or as few students as you like. The students are keen to meet with a wide cross section of parish community members. They have volunteered their time to join us on a week night, so please join us, and please extend this invitation to others who are involved in the parish.

Thanks to Rob Caslick and Two Good there will be soup on the night. The IOOSK Wednesday night dinner will also be underway while we are in the hall.

And another diary date. Professor David Sanderson, the inaugural Judith Neilson Chair of Architecture at UNSW Built Environment, who is leading the St Canice Design Studio, will be giving the Utzon Lecture on Wednesday 4 May at UNSW on Resilient Neighbourhoods:

Cities are facing unprecedented challenges: with global urban growth at around one million people per week, climate change and more natural disasters, cities and city designers need to think and act differently. Resilience is offering some fresh thinking. By focusing on the reduction of risk, and the capacity to ‘bounce back’, resilience unites different actors to address challenges collectively across a city. But, how can vulnerable neighbourhoods be resilient? By drawing on lessons from recent urban disasters from poorer countries, this lecture critiques current practice and offers pointers on how built environment professionals could contribute better to building lasting resilience.