Place-Making - Delivering Sustainable Urban Design
A Practitioners Workshop
Thursday 29 April 2010, 1:30-5:30 Lecture Theatre 1 3G02, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee.
This workshop will examine the current challenges of the urban design environment and identify new responses to them. The recent focus on sustainability has underscored the necessity for creating high quality living environments. This focus has challenged architects and planners and policy-makers to develop new visions and new approaches to designing neighbourhoods and city-districts. There is a desire to move away from fragmented standards and prescriptive regulation, towards more integrated development management, and to develop methodologies for assessing place-making solutions which are holistic and sensitive to local differences.
The presentations will be followed by an open discussion.
The workshop is a free and open to all.
Workshop
- 1:30 Registration
- 2:00 David Kirk, Introduction
- 2:15 Dr. Husam AlWaer, Current challenges facing architects and planners in delivering sustainable urban design
- 2:50 Matthew Kitson, Creating successful masterplans: a better approach to assessing sustainability
- 3:15 Diarmaid Lawlor, Place-making practice in Scotland: towards better practice
- 4:00 Break
- 4:15 Discussion chaired by Dr. Lorens Holm and Graeme Hutton
- 4:45 Reception sponsored by Hilson Moran
Participants:
- David Kirk, Head of Town & Regional Planning, School of Social & Environmental Sciences, University of Dundee
- Dr. Husam AlWaer, Lecturer in Sustainability Assessment, School of Architecture, University of Dundee.
- Matthew Kitson, Director of Sustainability, Hilson Moran, Partnership, Ltd., consulting engineers
- Diarmaid Lawlor, Head of Urbanism, Architecture and Design Scotland
- Dr. Lorens Holm, Director, Geddes Institute for Urban Research, University of Dundee
- Graeme Hutton, Dean and Head of School, School of Architecture, University of Dundee