Advancing a sustainable future:

strategies for cross-disciplinary practice around the Indian Ocean

Challenging issues – limited resources – innovative solutions

WHEN: 9.00 to 5.00, Wed 17th to Friday 19th March, 2010
WHERE: University of Technology Sydney
Jones Street Building 10, level 2, Rms 460, 240

THEMES:

Day 1: Strategies for Sustainable Futures: building, infrastructure and technologies for social justice
Day 2: Rethinking Environmental Histories
Day 3: Voices & Movements on environmental change

SPEAKERS include:

Ashok Lall on Innovations in low energy urban architecture; Hoysall Chanakya on Technologies for sustainability; Judith Carney and Ed Wilmsen on Africa and trans-oceanic ecological exchanges; Cynthia Mitchell on Transdisciplinary strategies for sustainability; Debal Singha Roy on movements for environmental justice; Stephanie Jones on Law, history and environmental sovereignty; Haripriya Rangan on ecologies on the move: Africa, India, Australia...

As well as, Heather Goodall on how to use memory and oral history for sustainability research; Shankar Sankaran and Chris Riedy on strategies for imagining the future; Sarath Mataraaachchi on post-tsunami planning in Sri Lanka; Ian Manock on disaster management in Bangladesh; Leena Thomas on developing build environment for climate change; Prasanthi Hagare on investigating culturally-appropriate strategies for water and waste management in Indigenous communities; Jade Herriman on global deliberative democracy on global warming; James Goodman on contesting climate policy; Bill Milne-Holme on sustainability research in Laos and Thailand; Juliet Willets and Naomi Carrad on sustainable infrastructure in rapid development situations; Dharma Hagare on planning sustainable urban water systems; Nick McClean on Protected areas and Environmental Justice, India & Australia; Jodi Frawley on  the politics of ‘invasive’ plant circulations; Thom van Dooren on the power of narratives in making extinctions visible.

For further information, please visit http://iosarn.com/events/conferences
School of Architecture, UTS :: Engineering & IT, UTS :: Arts & Social Sciences, UTS :: Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS ::  School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, Monash.