Keynote and Invited Speakers

Herbert Drieseitl

Atelier Dreiseitl, Germany

Urban design and water

Biography:

Artist, Landscape Architect and Founder, Atelier Dreiseitl

Founder of Atelier Dreiseitl, Herbert Dreiseitl was trained as an artist through apprenticeships in England, Norway and Germany. An innovator in landscape architecture and urban hydrology, with an international reputation for creative stormwater management and sustainable design, Herbert along with his team, champions a profoundly inspiring and intriguing use of water, which results in projects of a high aesthetic and social value. With offices in Germany, Singapore, US and China, Atelier Dreiseitl’s projects include the creation of an infiltration and retention water technology system at Potsdamer Platz in a high density area of Berlin; the development of the Chicago City Hall green rooftop garden; the transformation of an industrial area in Portland, Oregon into a vibrant urban park; and the design of water playgrounds, water sculptures, and original public open spaces throughout Europe, North America and Asia.

Books:

New Waterscapes: Planning, Building and Designing with Water, Herbert Dreiseitl, Dieter Grau

Neue Wege für das Regenwasser (New Ways with Rainwater), Wolfgang Geiger, Herbert Dreiseitl

Professor Ken Friedman

Professor of Design, Swinburne University

The role of design in dealing with the challenges of climate change and sustainability

Biography:

Ken Friedman works at the intersection of three fields: design, management, and art. As Professor and Dean of Design at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia, he works with theory construction and comparative research methodology for design while leading the work of the Faculty of Design. He also holds a research appointment at Denmark’s Design School in Copenhagen, and he is Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design at the Norwegian School of Management, focusing on knowledge economy issues, culture, and leadership.

Ken Friedman has done research in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of design, and doctoral education in design. He also works with national design policy projects in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Wales. He plays an active role in developing international research networks and conferences for the design research community as editor of the journal Artifact, as book reviews editor of Design Research News, and Communications Secretary of the Design Research Society. He co-chaired the La Clusaz Conference on Doctoral Education in Design in 2000, the 2006 conference of the European Academy of Management in Oslo, and the 2006 conference of the Design Research Society in Lisbon.

In 2007, Loughborough University honoured Friedman with the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, for outstanding contributions to design research. The award citation by Public Orator Tony Hodgson appears at: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/publicity/
degree_days/2007/Summer/Friedman.html

Ken Friedman is also a practicing artist and designer active in the international laboratory known as Fluxus. He had his first solo exhibition in New York in 1966. His work is represented in major museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, and Stadtsgalerie Stuttgart. The University of Iowa Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts is the official repository of Friedman’s papers and research notes. Archiv Sohm at Stadtsgalerie Stuttgart and the Mandeville Department of Special Collections at the University of California also hold extensive collections on Friedman’s work in the 1960s and 1970s.

Prof Tony Wong 

EDAW

Biography:

Dr Tony Wong is a principal with EDAW’s studios in Melbourne and Sydney, with over 25 years' experience in water resources management in both rural and urban environments. His recent focus has been on the water aspects of ecologically sustainable development, particularly integrated urban water cycle management and water sensitive urban design. His expertise has been gained through consulting, research, and academia, and he has received a number of industry awards for the projects he has led.

Tony has co-authored a number of book chapters for UNESCO and was the editor-in-chief of Engineers Australia’s Australian Runoff Quality: A Guide to Water Sensitive Urban Design. He is currently a member of the Commonwealth Government’s National Water Commission Urban Water Advisory Group, and recently accepted an invitation to join the prime minister’s Science Engineering and Innovation Council’s working group on water for cities.

Tony was a founding partner and director of Ecological Engineering before the firm joined with EDAW in July 2007.

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Assoc Prof Rebekah Brown

Transition pathways for water sensitive cities and settlements

Biography:

Rebekah is an Associate Professor within the School of Geography and Environmental Science and Program Leader of the National Urban Water Governance Program. She has specialised in environmental and sustainability issues, as a civil engineer and social scientist, over the last 15 years. Graduating at the top of her year in civil engineering, she was awarded the Australian Ove Arup & Partners Fellowship for Excellence in Engineering Studies. For the next eight years she was as an engineering consultant advising on water and waterways in major infrastructure projects such as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (UK) and the Bangkok Yannawa Wastewater Scheme (Thailand). Deciding to pursue her social science research interests, in 2003 she was awarded the first interdisciplinary PhD across the social and physical sciences by the University of New South Wales focusing on advancing sustainable urban water management. In 2007, Rebekah was the recipient of the Monash University Vice Chancellor’s Early Career Researcher of the Year Award.

Rebekah is focused on interdisciplinary issues relating to institutional development and organisational change for advancing sustainable urban water futures. She aims to provide a credible knowledge base for urban water strategists and policy-makers to support institutional capacity development, improve water governance and ultimately deliver more sustainable forms of water management. Her publications span methods for interdisciplinary data collection techniques, socio-technical transition processes relating to adaptive governance and organisational leadership, and operational frameworks for institutional capacity building at different levels of environmental governance. Rebekah has been a Keynote Speaker at a number of conferences including the: The 3rd International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design: Cities as Catchments in Adelaide 2004; The Planning Institute of Australia: Queensland State Conference in Brisbane 2005; and The 10th International Conference on Urban Drainage in Copenhagen 2005, and The 5th South Pacific Stormwater Conference, 2007, in Auckland; and the Urban Drainage Summit: Shifting Towards a Water Sensitive City, (2007), Perth.

Professor Richard Weller

Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Western Australia

Planning and design for the ‘Boom Town’

Biography:

Richard Weller is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Western Australia (UWA) where he is renowned for combining teaching, research and practice in a dynamic student-centered environment. Since the program’s inception in 1993/1994 Professor Weller has spearheaded a design culture in the UWA program. He received an excellence in teaching award from the UWA in 2003.

In over 20 years of design practice Professor Weller has received a consistent stream of international competition prizes. His work has been widely exhibited including in a retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (1998) and at the Venice Biennale (2004). Professor Weller has published over 50 papers on contemporary urban design and landscape architecture and is one of only two landscape architects in the world to have had a monograph of their work published by the prestigious University of Pennsylvania Press.

 

Professor Stuart White

Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney

Assessment techniques for the water sensitive design

Biography:

Professor Stuart White is the Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures. He has worked and undertaken research in sustainability for over twenty years, specialising in the use of least cost planning for utilities and the advocacy, design, implementation and evaluation of programs for improving resource use efficiency.

At the Institute, and previously as Director of Preferred Options (Asia-Pacific) Pty Ltd, he designed or implemented three of Australia’s largest water efficiency programs, in Kalgoorlie Boulder in Western Australia, in northern New South Wales and in Sydney. In 1998 he was appointed as a member of the NSW Task Force on Water Conservation and in 2001 as a member of the Expert Panel on Environmental Flows for the Hawkesbury Nepean. In 2000 he was requested by the NSW Minister for the Environment to undertake an Independent Review of Container Deposit Legislation and has written and presented widely on sustainable futures including taxation, participatory decision-making and public policy.

 

Mr Tan Nguan Sen

Director of Catchment and Waterways Department in PUB, Singapore

Biography:

Mr Tan Nguan Sen is the Director of Catchment and Waterways Department in PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency. He has extensive experience in the planning and designing of both drainage and used water infrastructure as well as in the construction, operation and management of drainage and water reclamation facilities. His experience spans the whole water cycle, from stormwater collection, drainage planning and development, potable water treatment and used water collection, treatment and reuse. Mr Tan was also involved in formulating key policies for water related issues.

Currently, as the Director of Catchment and Waterways Department, Mr Tan is in charge of the management of all the reservoir catchments and rivers/waterways in Singapore.  One of the key programmes embarked by PUB in the recent years is the Active, Beautiful and Clean (ABC) Waters Programme. Mr Tan is the Director in charge for the launch and implementation of this exciting ABC Waters Programme, which aims to transform reservoirs and waterways in Singapore into vibrant, aesthetically pleasing and clean lifestyle attractions.

Wolfgang Geiger

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