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DELIVERING Innovative Natural Outcomes

The natural environment is an important part of the places we live in. Protecting biodiversity, providing green spaces that people can enjoy and creating pleasant environments for people to live in are valuable to all the projects we do.

This session will investigate three projects which are innovative in delivering natural outcomes through community and developer led solutions including micro forests, flora species rehabilitation and urban greening project case studies.

Edwina Robinson
Edwina Robinson is a Landscape Architect and Founder of the social enterprise, The Climate Factory. Since 2009 her work includes the development of community climate-cooling micro-forests and public infrastructure projects, like constructed wetlands. Edwina’s philosophy is that great landscapes are underpinned by community collaboration and engagement, water harvesting, fabulous soil preparation and choosing plants that will thrive in an uncertain future.

Since 2020, Edwina has built four community micro-forests - three in Canberra and one in Moruya, NSW. She has developed an eight step method to empower local leaders to start their own micro-forest that she will discuss at this seminar. She works closely with community to provide input into these spaces and in planting and maintaining them. Edwina marvels at the way people use these spaces in unanticipated and delightful ways.

Canberra's micro-forests were featured in a story with Gardening Australia host, Costa Georgiadis.

Kieran Richardt
Kieran is an environmental consultant and director of social enterprise Natura Pacific, who provide consultancy and environmental education. He has 19 years experience working on a wide range of projects and pursuits and working to achieve out of the box environmental solutions on projects. Kieran will discuss the Connecting Communities project at Yarrabilba which is a project designed to collect seeds of an endangered species, working with 3 prisons in SEQ to grow the seeds and working with the community and contractors to rehabilitate conservation areas using that progeny.

Bridget McGuigan
Bridget is a Registered Landscape Architect with 12 years’ experience in Australia and England in a variety of projects ranging from public realm, regeneration, public open spaces, nature play opportunities and community spaces. She has been with Tract for the last 6 years, honing her expertise in creek regeneration, and the community benefits of wild spaces in urban areas through a climate positive design lens.

Bridget will discuss the Hanlon Park/ Bur’uda Project, which transformed an underutilised drainage corridor into a rich parkland, still achieving flood conveyance requirements, but also delivering significant environmental and community benefits.

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About the Series

Delivery of infrastructure, projects and outcomes are often the end of a long process of negotiation, assessment, re-working and hard work by all parties. But exactly how do we ensure that the delivery meets the intended outcome, or even that the tangible outcomes are actually delivered? This series will investigate and enlighten the audience about how planners and their built environment colleagues can ensure that housing, infrastructure, subdivision of lots and the like are actually delivered.

For this series, we have invited a range of speakers to discuss their approach to project delivery, their use of innovation and their tips and tricks that should be in every planner’s tool kit to ensure that the planning work eventuates with a realistic and tangible outcome being delivered. Don't miss this!

The chair for the seminar series will be:
Leisa Prowse
Director of Leisa Prowse Consulting

Leisa has almost 30 years of experience in community and stakeholder engagement, and social impact assessment. With more than 230 projects under her belt, Leisa understands complex and contentious projects in the transport, resources, energy, water, education, health, property and government sectors, and the challenges they face.

Leisa is tertiary-qualified in both town planning and communication. This rare combination of skills enables her to meaningfully engage with a range of stakeholders at different technical levels, while ensuring that the results of engagement processes can be readily incorporated into technical studies.

Additionally, Leisa is a member of the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) and an Ambassador for IAP2, reflecting her commitment to IAP2 and best-practice engagement processes.

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Note: Payment is by credit card only. If you require another method of payment please contact qld@planning.org.au

A link to view this seminar recording will be sent to you with your registration confirmation.