A discussion exploring what is required to create liveable, people-centric cities while addressing the climate & biodiversity crisis

Cities tend to be framed as one of the main contributors to the exacerbation of climate change. They are resource intensive, transform natural environments into asphalt and concrete, are hotspots of pollution and are cramped.

However, compact and appropriately densified cities can be part of the answer to the climate change and biodiversity crisis as they concentrate activity in established urban areas and reduce the impact on the broader natural environment. Whilst densifying and intensifying, we need to ensure we bring greening and biodiversity into the city to ensure it is cool, sustainable, healthy, attractive and liveable.

It is in the DNA of Adelaide to be a "Livable City". The city's original urban planner, Colonel William Light, designed a city to be surrounded by nature and allow people to live authentically, enjoying a high level of wellbeing. Going forward, how do we ensure that we design the physical and unseen features of our city to put people first? And in putting people first, how do we begin to heal our ecology and place?

Please join the ASBN and AIUS SA as we explore these questions with leading South Australians across various disciplines. We will discover the hard and soft infrastructure required to create liveable, people-centric cities, while simultaneously addressing the climate and biodiversity crisis.

Our panel of South Australian leaders include:

• Dr Angelique Edmonds - Senior Lecturer, UniSA Creative | Author | Creative Director, School for Creating Change

• Jen St Jack - Consulting Partner, Jack Jensen| Board Member, Australian Institute of Urban Studies South Australia (AIUS SA)

• Orr Niv Shallev - Associate, COX Architecture

• Brugh O'Brien - Principal: Future of Home, The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI)

• Dr Fay Patterson - Councillor, City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters | Transport Planner, Hub Traffic & Transport

This event will have a live, in person discussion, with an audience. Audience members will receive a glass of wine and nibbles upon entry. Afterwards we will host a long table dinner with the ASBN team and panel members for further networking. Numbers are strictly limited for COVID Safe requirements and intimacy of networking.

As a hybrid event, we will also have an online option for our community who would like to attend via ZOOM. Our online attendees are very welcome to consume their preferred drinks (why not purchase Whistling Kite Wine just for the occasion!) and food while streaming the discussion and participating in the digital dialogue throughout the event.

Event Timetable:

• 5:45 - 6.00PM: In person audience arrives, Zoom audience logs in

• 6.00 - 6.10PM: Welcome and introduction

• 6.10 – 7.20PM: Panel discussion, Q&A with in person and Zoom audience

• 7.20 - 7.30PM: Wrap up and conclude event

• 7.45 - 8.45PM: Long Table Dinner and Networking [in person only]

We respectfully acknowledge the Kaurna community as the Traditional Custodians of the Adelaide Plains, the land on which we host and broadcast our event. We pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging and their connection to land.

Covid-19 has changed the way we look at how and where we work, study, move and live.

We know that we are working and studying from home more than ever and our relationships with our places of work and education have changed. We also know that there is less activity in the CBD. During the peak of the crisis, our movement behavious and patterns also changed.

As we emerge from the crisis, the questions we must ask are:

1. How much of this change is temporary and how much will become the ‘new normal’?

2. How will this change influence how we plan, develop, activate and manage our cities and regions in the future?

3. How can we learn from the experience and use it to our advantage?

In December 2020 the AIUS SA released a survey; Post Covid-19: How will we work, study, move and live?

The AIUS SA will be exploring the survey results and these questions in more detail at our event on 18 May 2021.

Helen Dyer Chair of the State Planning Commission

Daniels Langeberg AIUS SA Board Member, CEO EcoCaddy, CEO Mache Coworking and CoFounder Mache Wellbeing Studio

Professor Emma Baker Professor of Housing Research at the University of Adelaide

Event Details

Date: Tuesday 18 / 5 / 2021

Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Where: Zoom (Log in at 2:45am) Broadcast from MACHE

Zoom link will be emailed Tuesday afternoon

Cost: $4 AIUS SA Members / $8 Non-Members

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EVENT PARTNER: MACHE