WE ARE DOING IT AGAIN!
Early bird fee $890 + GST - $979. (only for the first 60 bookings made before 14 December), after that $1,090 + GST - $1,199.
The conference fee includes bunk house share accommodation, all meals (and modest quantities of beer and wine) and ferry transfers from/to Brooklyn Wharf (10 mins from Hawkesbury River Station), Kangaroo Point Wharf (for people travelling by car)
CPD POINTS – 9 FORMAL and 1 INFORMAL CPD HOURS
Participants can claim CPD hours through the Architects Registration Boards.
BOOKING AND PAYMENT
Bookings for 2020 are being run through Eventbrite and payment will be by credit card or via Paypal – Mastercard and Visa only.
The event is up now on Eventbrite – book now
TOTAL 150 PLACES
A WEEKEND OF GOOD PEOPLE AND GOOD ARCHITECTURE ALL TOGETHER
Hawkesbury River – Deep and Wide Water
Milson Island, Hawkesbury River
13 – 15 March 2020
RESPONSE + ABILITY - the ability of architects to respond to diverse challenges of society, culture, environment, place, landscape, poverty
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This event has differentiated itself from the big impersonal architecture conferences, where participants often end up ‘hanging out’ with their friends, do not meet other people, and never see the guest speakers who are whisked off to VIP events.
The ‘all together’ residential weekend format has ensured that all participants stay together and get a chance to meet each other and the guest speakers.
SPEAKERS 2020
Francis Kéré, Burkina Faso and Berlin. Awarded the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2004) for his first-ever building - a school he designed, raised the funds for and realised in collaboration with the residents of his native Gando, Burkina Faso. Kéré has gone on to become one of the most distinguished contemporary architects thanks to his pioneering of communal approach to design and his commitment to sustainable materials and modes of construction. Underpinning his architectural practice, are his past and current teaching engagements at TU München, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio and Yale University. http://www.kere-architecture.com/projects/project-overview/
Maruša Zorec, Arrea, Slovenia Commenced practice in 1992, and in 2005 founded Arrea Architecture in 2005, considered to be one of the most prominent architectural practices in Slovenia, most regarded for subtle takes on the built heritage, ‘with a deft touch in transforming such places into functional and contemporary buildings’. She is an assistant Professor at the University of Ljubljana and curated the Slovenian exhibit ‘Unveil the Hidden’ at the 2018 Venice Bienniale. https://www.arrea.si/projects
Uncle Max Dulumunmun Harrison, Yuin Elder, Australia Uncle Max has been a cherished tutor and critic at the Glenn Murcutt International Architecture Master Class, since 2005. He is an initiated Yuin man, he grew up on the south coast as part of a close community where boys and young men were still selected for initiation into ancient ways. Seeing the widespread marginalisation of his people and lack of acceptance of traditional teachings, he began his life’s work – providing a way for others to understand Aboriginal culture.https://www.ozetecture.org/max-harrison
Hugh Tennent, Tennent Brown, New Zealand Multi-award winning Wellington architecture studio with empathy for the way people live, work and play. The practice pays particular respect to core Māori cultural principles such as manaakitanga and kaitiakitanga – linked ideas that talk about the importance and duty of taking responsibility for personal health and well-being whilst also ensuring the protection of the health and wellbeing of the wider whānau, environment and community. http://tennentbrown.co.nz/projects/
Sarah Ann Suter and Carolin Lahode, Stadtlücken, Germany Their non-profit organisation undetakes projects, research work and practice on urban interventions in challenging areas of the city and raising awareness around liveability in the city and the potential of left over public spaces. They always engage the city in their conversations and solutions and use the projects as real life experiments to inform their research work at the University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart. One of their key projects is Österreichischer Platz, formerly a parking lot under an overpass bridge in Stuttgart, they convinced the city to give up the parking spaces and use it for urban experiments and engagement. https://www.oe-platz.de/bildergalerie
Nicholas Burns, Studio Nicholas Burns, Bali, Indonesia Australian born, now practising internationally in Asia, Europe, Africa and Australia. He took advice of University of Sydney Professor Michael Tawa and decided to teach himself. ‘I’ve worked for winemakers, built rammed-earth structures and set up a design-and-build landscape company. I’ve also exhibited paintings and studied traditional Japanese carpentry’. He attended the Glenn Murcutt Master Class in 2009. https://www.nicholas-burns.com
Heleana Genaus, Healthabitat, Australia Commenced working with Dr. Paul Pholeros and Health Habitat as a student, graduating with M.Arch in 2007. Heleana “came to HH wanting to be part of an organisation that is results-focussed and operates, at all levels, with unflinching respect for people”. Because she was still young and angry, she was allowed to funnel her energies into a communications role. http://www.healthabitat.com
Bobbie Bayley and Owen Kelly, The Grand Section, across Australia.BB + OK, as they are known - or ‘dusty and thirsty’ - are best known for having cycled on push bikes 7650kms east to west across the middle of the continent, they will now reveal the splendid work they did thinking, mapping, meeting communities, having conversations about and studying the rural architecture of Australia. Recipients of the 2019 National Student Prize for the Advancement of Architecture. https://www.thegrandsection.com/who-are-yous
‘It’s for the love of architecture for God’s sake. It’s for the love of architecture”
Professor Hans Narve Skotte
THIS IS LIKELY TO BE THE SCHEDULE FOR 2020
Friday 13 March 2020
14.00 – Ferry pick up – Brooklyn Wharf (10 mins from Hawkesbury River Station – travelling by train)
14.30 – Ferry pick up Kangaroo Point Wharf (for people travelling by car)
15.00 – Arrive Milson Island
16.00 – Welcome Uncle Max Dulumunmun Harrison
17.00 – Introduction
18.00 – Drinks
19.00 – Dinner
20.00 – Session 1 – International Keynote Speaker
Saturday 14 March 2020
07.00 – Explore the Island
08.00 – Breakfast
09.00 – Session 2
11.00 – Break
11.30 – Session 3
13.00 – Lunch
14.00 – Session 4
16.00 – Break
16.30 – Session 5 – International Keynote Speaker
18.00 – Drinks
19.00 – Dinner
Event – Scotland Island Blues band (if available) – music and dancing?
Sunday 15 March 2020
08.00 – Breakfast
09.30 – Session 6
11.00 – Break
11.30 – Session 7
13.00 – Lunch
14.30 – Ferry depart Milson Island
15.15 – Drop off Kangaroo Point
15.45 – Drop off Brooklyn Hawkesbury River Station
Lindsay Johnston will be convener and raconteur for the program
Thanks to our generous supporters
In 2016 we succeeded in filling the island accommodation to its 150 person capacity.
Testimonials
Download Hampson Laverty Thong Review of 2016
Download Rod Simpson of Review 2016Review
Link to Chris Freeburn, Ironbark, 2016 Review
“This event differentiates itself from the big impersonal architecture conferences, where participants often end up ‘hanging out’ with their friends, do not meet other people, and never see the guest speakers who are whisked off to VIP events. This ‘all together’ residential weekend conference ensures that all participants stay together and get a chance to meet each other and the guest speakers.”
Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, 11-13 March
Exceptional conference, up there with any of Alvar Aalto Symposia but even better because of the interaction between the group, loved being on an island too. Brilliant concept and execution. Congratulations to all involved!
(A.H., Sef-employed Architect, AIA, Brisbane)
Well it happened that way. There were about 150 architects on Milson Island to hear speakers from hot and cool climates, including speakers from Denmark, Norway, New Zealand and Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean. Participants attended from all over Australia, a large number from New Zealand and from overseas, one participant came especially from Slovenia.
Highlights included the traditional ‘smoking’ welcome ceremony by Aboriginal elder Uncle Max Dulumunmun Harrison, the Friday evening address by keynote speaker Lene Tranberg of Lundberg and Tranberg Copenhagen, and the address by Queensland elder of the Australian profession Gabriel Poole, who received a standing ovation. Underpinnings, influences and inspirations were explored by Lene and the predominantly female panel of speakers, Professor Brit Andresen, Ingerid Helsing Almaas Editor of the Norwegian Architectural Review, Julie Stout of Mitchell and Stout Auckland and, on behalf of younger practices, Christine Major of Welsh and Major Sydney.
Antoine Perrau, presented an explanation of a substantial body of work in the tropical environment of Réunion Island, using air movement, natural ventilation and vegetation to eliminate the need for air-conditioning. Richard Leplastrier and Peter Stutchbury took a joint journey of vernacular buildings and recent buildings from the north, in the extreme cold of Russia, through the tropical and temperate climates of the Pacific and Australia, to the extreme winds of the south in Tasmania. The weekend was knitted together by Lindsay Johnston, convener of the Architecture Foundation Australia.
Fine weather allowed participants to mingle with speakers, sponsors and fellow participants in the outdoors and explore the beautiful island, have an occasional swim, and dance under the stars to – the ‘Scotland Island Blues Band’’, who came by classic Halversøn boat.
Delegates travelled by ferry from Palm Beach in Pittwater, or from the train station at Hawkesbury River, or from the Pacific Highway at Kangaroo Point.
This was the second Deerubbin Conference – Deerubbin is the Aboriginal name for the Hawkesbury River, and means ‘deep and wide water’. The first was held in 2014, and it is planned to hold another in March 2018. The event lectures took place in the beautiful Michael Heenan AJ+C designed sports hall. Sponsors for the conference included Stormtech drains and channels, Velux roof windows, Dulux paints, Metalcraft New Zealand roofing and cladding, Murobond paints and Hire intelligence who supplied the video wall. The event attracted 9 formal and 1 informal CPD points under the Refuel program.
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