ZWSA sd+b Research Centre
Seminars and Public Events
The sd+b Centre regularly conducts seminars, lectures and public events. If you would like to be added to the mailing list for these, please email: Susana.gonzalez@unisa.edu.au
Public
Lecture - Urban Systems
Thursday 17 May 2012. Prof J. Alexander Schmidt, Germany
J. Alexander Schmidt studied City Planning and Architecture
(University Stuttgart) and Environmental Psychology/Urban Design (UC
Berkeley). He holds the Chair in Urban Design at the Institute of City
Planning + Urban Design and is director of the University's Joint Centre for
Urban Systems at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
The institute's research is focussing on the following topics:
- Urban China: Low Carbon Planning and Energy
Efficiency Monitoring
- Climate Change is Cultural Change: New Bottom-up
Initiatives
- Urban Strategies for Climate Change
- Urban Design and Health
- Mobility and Urban Development: the Mega-City
project
- Beauty and the City, City Culture.
His consulting and design practice covers national and
international urban developments and urban design. He was a visiting
professor at the University of Oregon, Portland and the University of
California, Berkeley.
Dr. J. Alexander Schmidt will be a Visiting Scholar, funded by the
DAAD, at the sd+b Centre at UniSA from 15 to 30 May 2012.
His institute is located at: University Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of
Engineering, Civil Engineering and Building Sciences, Institute of City
Planning + Urban Design, D-45117 Essen.
3rd Annual sd+b Public Symposium
Thursday 17 May 2012
Symposium Abstracts
and Event Program (PDF 1MB)
Annual Researchers Colloquium on Sustainable Design
Thursday 17 May 2012
13.30 -19.30
Bradley Forum, Level 5 Hawke Building, City West Campus
This 'Researchers and PhD Student Colloquium' is a one-day Forum
for early career researchers, to present their research and to get to know
other early career researchers working on similar PhD topics.
PhD students and Researchers have been invited to give a 10 minute
presentation each on their current research in the field of Climate Change
and Sustainable Urbanisation, Cities and Energy-efficient Design.
Please email Susana Gonzalez if you would like to attend the Colloquium.
'Designing for Zero Waste'
Book launch with the Hon Paul Caica, Minister for Sustainability,
Environment and Conservation, and the Vice Chancellor, Prof Peter Hoj
Thursday 23 February 2012
6pm to 7:30pm Allen Scott Theatre, Hawke Building, City West Campus
This public book launch is open to all interested, including staff and
students at UniSA and Professionals.
Attendance is free. Please RSVP to:
Susana.gonzalez@unisa.edu.au
Annual Researchers Colloquium on Sustainable Design
Thursday 19 May 2011
9.30am -4.30pm
Bradley Forum, Level 5 Hawke Building, City West Campus
The 'Researchers Colloquium' is a one-day Climate Change Networking Workshop
and Forum for
early career researchers, to present their research and to get to know other
early career researchers.
PhD students and Researchers have been invited to give a 10-12 minute
presentation on their current research in the field of Climate Change and
Sustainable Urbanisation/Design.
An invited expert panel will give comments to all presented research.
Early Career Researcher's Presentations
Please email Susana Gonzalez if you would like to attend the Colloquium.
Presentation by SA Government Architect, Ben Hewett
'The Integrated Design
Commission and the City"
Thursday 19 May 2011
12.00- 12.45
Bradley Forum, Level 5 Hawke Building, City West Campus
This lunchtime talk is open to all staff and students at UniSA and
Professionals.
Attendance is free but places are limited. Please register at
Susana.gonzalez@unisa.edu.au
2nd Annual sd+b Public Symposium
'Low-to-no Carbon Urban Futures'
Thursday 19 May 2011
4.30pm for a 5pm start
Bradley Forum, Level 5 Hawke Building, City West Campus
Invited speakers include:
- Prof Deo Prasad, UNSW, Sydney: 'Challenges in delivery of low carbon cities'
- Dr Ong Boon Lay, UniMelb, Melbourne: 'Urban Greenery: Green Plot Ratio and Sustainable Urban Greenery in Singapore'
- Dan Atkins, Shaper Group, Melbourne: 'Industrial Symbiosis'
- Vaughan Levitzke, Zero Waste SA, Adelaide: 'Resource use in a low carbon
economy?
Attendance is free but places are strictly limited. Please register at
Susana.gonzalez@unisa.edu.au
1st Annual sd+b Public Symposium
'Solutions for a Low-to-no Carbon Urban Future'
Thursday 4 November 2010
Invited speakers included:
- Professor Wolfgang Weileder, Newcastle University (UK): ' Spaces in flux'
- Tim Horton, Commissioner for Integrated Design, SA: 'Urban Operating System: Adelaide 2.0'
- Professor Manfred Hegger, TU-Darmstadt: 'Smart Buildings- Smart Cities'
- Professor Steffen Lehmann, University of South
Australia: 'Sustainable Design and Behaviour Change'