Auckland Ecologies Symposuim

A half-day seminar at Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae, Unitec from 1.00 – 5.00pm with refreshments until 7.00pm Friday September 7th, convened by Marcus Williams and Matthew Bradbury.  

The focus will be on current and potential research around the themes underpinning the Auckland Ecologies Research Focus established by the FRSC in 2011. 

After the whakatau there will be six micro presentations by CIB staff currently engaged in cross-departmental FRSC funded research projects.

 

Micro Presentations

 

Paul Woodruffe (DVA) (research partners Ken Simpson, Ilse Marie Erl, Sara Donoghey, and Faye Norman) - The Everyday Collective; Rosebank Rd (articulating local community groups with council and business)

 

Kristina Kaza (Arch) (research partners Allan McDonald, Jeannette Budget and Graeme McConchie) – Prone (Auckland’s earthquake prone heritage buildings)

 

Dushko Bogunovich (Arch) – (research partners John Boon, Matthew Bradbury, Nikolay Popov, Leslie Haines, David Turner, Peter McPherson) - Auckland 2020/30/40/50 (Alternative Growth Scenarios for the Supercity. Stage 1 - Case Study: Eco-town (east Auckland))

 

Janine Randerson (DVA) (research partner Chris Manford) - Neighbourhood Air (creative media as a tool for increasing awareness and agency for environmental air quality in Auckland)

 

Ngaire Molyneax (DoMM) (research partners Dina Sharma, Ken Simpson and Victor Grbic) – Organisational capability enhancement in urban Maori (understanding Maori business in Auckland)

 

Leslie Haines (L/Arch) (research partner Nikolay Popov) - Auckland’s Urban Forest (mapping distribution and intensity of Auckland trees)

Guests

 Neil Donnelly, Manager Strategic Planning of Todd Property Group

 

"My acid test for success is to know that when I drive past our developments in 15 - 20 years I will still feel as proud of them as I do today. Longevity is a key element of Todd Property Group's success." Evan Davies, Managing Director

 

Our vision for Todd Property Group is to be the leader in developing properties that contribute sustainable and lasting value to communities. Todd Property website

 

Stephen Cavanagh – Manager Sectors - ATEED

Auckland Tourism Events & Economic Development (a council-controlled organisation)

 

Auckland is often quoted as the economic powerhouse of New Zealand, due to its size, influence and business performance. However, it remains a region of untapped potential, where significant opportunities exist to leverage its unique business, tourism, and events landscape to further increase economic growth for the betterment of Auckland and New Zealand. ATEED website

 

Structure

 

Marcus Williams will outline the CIB Research funding structure for 2013

Ken Simpson will talk about the Rosebank Rd/Unitec relationship platform TEPU

Matthew Bradbury will talk ‘blue skies’ about the Auckland Ecologies focus.

 

Social

 

Attendees are invited for a light meal and refreshments at the Wairaka room at Carringtons after the seminar.

Landscape New Zealand publishes an article on Auckland Ecologies

First out of the blocks

Allan McDonald, team leader, Krystina Kaza and Jeanette Budgett are the first Ak Ecologies project to publish their initial research. Join us on Tuesday 5^th of June at Sno White to see the work and read Jeanette’s essay . 

Rosebank Road Project progress 29/5/12

Paul Woodruffe and Faye Norman have photographically documented 3 important sites on the peninsular; the old Connell brothers land, Vince Middledorp’s land with racehorse stables and the last 2 acres of Haywood Wright’s property complete with his original buildings and heritage garden. We are currently filming these places and interviewing the owner/residents of these sites and will be editing this work into a 1993 28 minute amateur film of the Connell brothers gifted to us by a council employee to complete a documentary of these places of special character. The community mapping project is slowly taking shape with the support of the Avondale Community Garders and the Avondale Historic society, the first being an art-map of the route Vince walks his race horses, the second will be of the industrial section of Rosebank Road. We are also currently working with the ACG on a design and project management proposal to plant fruit trees on 5 childrens playground areas in Rosebank Road, we are looking for BLA students and staff to work on this with.

Five 3^rd year DVA students working with the collective have just completed the branding identity for the Unitec/Rosebank Road Business Association joint venture, our first contact with the businesses in the area. The collective have become members of the Avondale Community Gardeners.

sustaincity around the world

AP Bogunovitch has just given three papers at international conferences including a key note address "Cities and Academia in the Era of Climate Change" at the 12^th International Educating Cities conference at Changwon  http://www.iaec2012.go.kr/eng/sub/02_01_02.jsp and: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p2sN3jpqnM

"The City and the Crunch: Contours of A Pending Disaster ‘, at the   "Contours of The City" Conference in Bologna

http://www.laboratoriocitta.unibo.it/laboratorio/Bacheca/Eventi/2012/05/3_maggio_2012.htm

and Urban Sustainability:  Resilient Regions, Sustainable Sprawl and Green Infrastructure" at the "Sustainable City 2012 - 7th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability" conference at Ancona

http://sustainablecities.dk/files/sustainablecity2012cfp.pdf

The Unitec Arboretum project is progressing well with documentation of campus trees 2/3 complete, labels for 100 trees prepared for installation on World Environment Day June 5, and the interactive campus tree website in development, as shown in the screen shot. Penny Cliffin participated in the Wairaka Stream information session on campus last week with other Unitec sustainability fund researchers, and is giving a refereed conference paper about the Arboretum in Copenhagen next month.