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2 Walk and Cycle 2012 Conference (New Zealand)
Event Date - 22-24 February 2012
Event Location - Hastings, New Zealand
Theme: Creating Smarter Connections
Creating smarter connections is the key for unlocking multiple gains and improvements for our towns and cities throughout NZ.
Be it transport, tourism, health, the economy, the environment, sport and recreation or simply a better quality of life, the first ever NZ National Walking and Cycling Conference 2012 will bring together a wide range of people and ideas to demonstrate how walking and cycling is central to unlocking these gains.
This exciting conference is all about action.
Creating = Cause something to happen as a result of one’s actions
Smarter = Intelligent action
Connections = The action of connecting one thing with another
So through a combination of plenary sessions, short presentations, workshops and networking, this conference will inform, challenge and equip participants about walking and cycling related actions required for creating smarter connections and thereby greatly improving our communities and country.
We invite local and international speakers to come share their ideas, solutions and projects in response to the Conference theme.
Green Cities (Sydney)
Event Date - 4-7 March 2012
Event Location - Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
Co-hosted by the Green Building Council of Australia and the Property Council of Australia, Green Cities 2012 Conference and Expo will bring together the best and brightest green building professionals, industry experts, suppliers and manufacturers for three days of green building conversation, innovation and collaboration.
This year's conference will go beyond buildings to consider, challenge and provoke the green building status-quo and help you deliver better environmental, social and economic outcomes.
Fostering Sustainable Behaviour Change - Introductory Workshop (Brisbane)
Event Date - 22-23 March 2012
Event Location - Christie Conference Centre – Level 1, 320 Adelaide St.. Brisbane
This introductory community-based social marketing workshop will be of interest to those working to promote waste reduction, water and energy efficiency, modal transportation changes, watershed protection, and other sustainable behaviour changes. Those who work to promote behavioural changes that promote health, such as active lifestyles, will also benefit from attending. The workshop will:
- Teach you how to identify the barriers holding your program back
- Provide you with behaviour change tools
- Show you how to pilot and evaluate your program to make it successful!
Presented by Dr Doug McKenzie-Mohr with Bicycle Network.
Influencing Governments: A Short Course on Health Advocacy (Sydney)
Event Date - 26-27 March 2012
Event Location - University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus
This course is being offered by the Boden Institute’s Health & Sustainability Unit, at The University of Sydney for the first time in 2012. It targets upper level personnel from public, private and non -
government organisations that need to gain the ear of politicians and senior public servants to make a compelling case for policy changes.
Fostering Sustainable Behaviour Change - Introductory Workshop (Adelaide)
Event Date - 26-27 March 2012
Event Location - Adelaide Pavilion, Veale Gardens, Corner South Tce & Peacock, Adelaide
This introductory community-based social marketing workshop will be of interest to those working to promote waste reduction, water and energy efficiency, modal transportation changes, watershed protection, and other sustainable behaviour changes. Those who work to promote behavioural changes that promote health, such as active lifestyles, will also benefit from attending. The workshop will:
- Teach you how to identify the barriers holding your program back
- Provide you with behaviour change tools
- Show you how to pilot and evaluate your program to make it successful!
Presented by Dr Doug McKenzie-Mohr with Bicycle Network.
RAC Bike Futures Seminar (Perth)
Event Date - 29-30 March 2012
Event Location - The Royal Automobile Club of WA , 832 Wellington Street, West Perth WA
The RAC Bike Futures Seminar will focus on the latest thinking and major issues confronting communities as we move to embrace the bicycle revolution.
The seminar will deliver presentations from some of Australia’s leading bike industry professionals. The Bike Futures team will also be presenting the key learnings from the 2011 Bike Futures Conference and showcasing the keynote presentations from the conference.
There will be numerous opportunities to discuss issues, ask questions and network in a collegial, forum-style format.
Fostering Sustainable Behaviour Change - Introductory Workshop (Melbourne)
Event Date - 29-30 March 2012
Event Location - Citiclub on Queen, 113 Queen Street, Melbourne
This introductory community-based social marketing workshop will be of interest to those working to promote waste reduction, water and energy efficiency, modal transportation changes, watershed protection, and other sustainable behaviour changes. Those who work to promote behavioural changes that promote health, such as active lifestyles, will also benefit from attending. The workshop will:
- Teach you how to identify the barriers holding your program back
- Provide you with behaviour change tools
- Show you how to pilot and evaluate your program to make it successful!
Presented by Dr Doug McKenzie-Mohr with Bicycle Network.
Fostering Sustainable Behaviour: Advanced Workshop (Melbourne)
Event Date - 2-3 April, 2012
Event Location - Citiclub on Queen, 113 Queen St.. Melbourne
Designed for individuals who have previously attended the Fostering Sustainable Behaviour Introductory Workshop, who work in encouraging individuals to engage in environmentally beneficial behaviours. This brand new workshop will:
- Further your community-based social marketing knowledge and skill set
- Provide you with coaching in making community-based social marketing presentations
Presented by Dr Doug McKenzie-Mohr with Bicycle Network.
Traffic: The psychology of transport behaviour (Brisbane)
Event Date - 16 April 2012
Event Location - Brisbane
Creating safe and sustainable mobility
With:
- Tom Vanderbilt, author of New York Times bestseller Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
- Professor Simon Washington, Queensland Transport & Main Roads Endowed Chair, School of Urban Development & Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety – Queensland, QUT
- Professor Barry Watson, Director, Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety –Queensland, QUT
Seminar Topics
- From ‘Forgiving Roads’ To ‘Complete Streets’:Changing The Road Safety Paradigm
- The Windshield View: Understanding How Drivers See The World Around Them
- ‘Modal Bias’ – Relations Between Different Road Users
- Behavioural Economics & What It Means For Transport
- The Future Of Driving: Smaller, Shared, & Semi-Autonomous
- Bikes, Beach Chairs & Bus Rapid Transit: Lessons From A Changing New York City
- Travel Behaviour Change & Travel Demand Management
- Determinants Of Sustainable Mobility: The Relationship Between Urban Form, Transport Infrastructure & Travel Behaviour
- The Role Of Illegal Road User Behaviours In Road Crashes
- Whatever Happened To Walking? The ‘Forgotten Mode’ In The U.S. & Elsewhere
- Mobile Apps & Its Implications For Transport
Traffic: The psychology of transport behaviour (Sydney)
Event Date - 17 April 2012
Event Location - Sydney
Creating safe and sustainable mobility with:
- Tom Vanderbilt author of New York Times bestseller Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
- Dorte Ekelund, Executive Director, Major Cities Unit, Department of Infrastructure & Transport
- Dr Cameron Munro, CDM Research
Seminar Topics
- From ‘Forgiving Roads’ To ‘Complete Streets’: Changing The Road Safety Paradigm
- The Windshield View: Understanding How Drivers See The World Around Them
- ‘Modal Bias’ – Relations Between Different Road Users
- Behavioural Economics & What It Means For Transport
- The Future Of Driving: Smaller, Shared, & Semi-Autonomous
- Australian Government’s Major Cities Unit Work On Transport Policy & Creating Productive, Sustainable & Liveable Cities
- Bikes, Beach Chairs & Bus Rapid Transit: Lessons From A Changing New York City
- Travel Behaviour Change & Travel Demand Management
- Planning For Pedestrians & Bicycle Riders: Reducing Conflict On Shared Paths & Roads
- Whatever Happened To Walking? The ‘Forgotten Mode’ In The U.S. & Elsewhere
- Mobile Apps & Its Implications For Transport
Traffic: The psychology of transport behaviour (Melbourne)
Event Date - 19 April 2012
Event Location - Melbourne
Creating safe and sustainable mobility with:
- Tom Vanderbilt author of New York Times bestseller Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
- Professor Graham Currie, Chair of Public Transport, Monash University
- Chris Loader, Chris Loader and Associates
Seminar Topics:
- From ‘Forgiving Roads’ To ‘Complete Streets’: Changing The Road Safety Paradigm
- The Windshield View: Understanding How Drivers See The World Around Them
- ‘Modal Bias’ – Relations Between Different Road Users
- Behavioural Economics & What It Means For Transport
- The Future Of Driving: Smaller, Shared, & Semi-Autonomous
- Bikes, Beach Chairs & Bus Rapid Transit: Lessons From A Changing New York City
- Travel Behaviour Change & Travel Demand Management
- The Psychology Of Public Transport: How Users Perceive The Public Transport Journey
- How Public Transport Planning Can Be Transformed By Better Understanding User Psychology
- Understanding Melbourne Transport Patterns: Perceptions & Reality
- Emerging Trends In Melbourne’s Transport Patterns
- Whatever Happened To Walking? The ‘Forgotten Mode’ In The U.S. & Elsewhere
- Mobile Apps & Its Implications For Transport
5th Healthy Cities: Making Cities Liveable Conference (Geelong)
Event Date - 6-8 June 2012
Event Location - The Mercure Hotel and Conference Centre, Geelong, Victoria
The 5th Healthy Cities: Working Together to Achieve Liveable Cities Conference will be a platform for Government and Industry sector professionals to discuss causes, effects and solutions that relate to population health, sustainability, natural resource management, transport, climate change, urban design and more.
Confirmed and invited presenters include;
- Dr Agis D. Tsouros, Head, Policy and Cross-cutting Programmes and Regional Director's Special Projects, World Health Organization, Denmark
- Professor Rob Adams, Director of Design and Culture at the City of Melbourne
- Peter Kenyon, Director of The Bank of Ideas WA Cr Debbie Blumel, Sunshine Coast Regional Council Qld, Chair of Regional Development Australia Sunshine Coast and represents Queensland local governments on the National Sea Change Taskforce Executive.
- David Engwicht, Director, Creative Communities International Qld
- Philip D. Allsopp, RIBA, FRSA Co-founder of Transpolis Global, Arizona USA
- Prof Evelyne De Leeuw - Chair in Community Health Systems and Policy Faculty of Health, Deakin University VIC
- Matt Coetzee, Business Manager, Government at Aurecon Aust
Velo-city Global 2012 (Vancouver)
Event Date - 26-29 June 2012
Event Location - Vancouver, Canada
Velo-city Global is the world’s premier international cycling planning conference. The four day event offers delegates from around the world a chance to share best practices for creating and sustaining cycling-friendly cities, where bicycles are valued as part of daily transport and recreation.
5th International Urban Design Conference (Melbourne)
Event Date - 10-12 September 2012
Event Location - The Hilton on the Park, Melbourne, Victoria
The International Urban Design Conference was established in 2007. Since then over 390 presenters have shared their knowledge in developing a range of themes including, Resilience in Urban Design 2011, Designing the Future 2010, Waves of Change - Cities at Crossroads 2009 and Survival: implementing tomorrow's city 2007.
OPPORTUNISTIC URBAN DESIGN - 2012
If the act of planning is to legitimise 'what should be done', opportunistic design thinking seeks to action 'what can be done'. Indeed, the focus of planning may enable it to be read as one form of catalyst for thinking opportunistically. That is, a process of creative thinking leading to more flexible, more inventive and more contextually responsive strategies of intervention into the urban environment.
City leaders in Australia and internationally are , to varying degrees, endeavouring to respond to the aftermath of the GFC, effects of climate change, dramatic population movements, peak oil speculation, emerging social media and the influences on how we socialise and connect with each other, and a search for meaning (to name a few !).
Growth, flux, and decay are inherent aspects of urban systems. As changing financial, political, environmental, technical and social conditions influence urban life, it is apparent that urban design will have to become increasingly opportunistic and creative in approach, formulation and delivery.
This trend is manifesting itself across a broad range of disciplines, scales and intents. It is most popularly evident in innovative place making projects and strategies such as the High Line in NYC, tactical urbanism, a multiplicity of fluid uses of public spaces (eg pop ups).
The conference will focus on ideas and projects that are visionary despite, or maybe because of, the current context.
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