Event Information.
CENTRED - making space for community - 13-15 June 2024.
Location: Yamba Surf Life Saving Club, Yamba NSW 2464.
Dates: 13-15 June 2024
Tickets: bookings via humanitix
Note: There will be formal CPD points available on Friday 14th June.
Contributors.
Louisa Gee.
Louisa is a registered architect who both lives and works in the Clarence Valley NSW.
Based in Yamba, Louisa Gee Architects (LG.A) prides itself on being an approachable and experienced regional practice that takes on creative opportunities of all types, scales and budgets.
Prior to formally establishing Louisa Gee Architects (LG.A) in 2022 Louisa worked in both government and award winning private practices in Brisbane and Sydney, where she gained over 15 years experience in public, education and residential architecture.
Louisa’s experience growing up in a small town on the NSW south coast underpins her passion and understanding about regional communities and the shared issues we all face.
As a strong advocate for the profession Louisa has been energetically involved in organising past industry events as Chair of QLD EmAGN (emerging architects and graduates network) and previous roles on the Australian Institute of Architects QLD Chapter Council.
louisagee.com
instagram.com/louisagee.arch/
Sonia van de Haar of Lymesmith.
Sonia van de Haar is an artist and architectural colour specialist. Born in Wollongong, NSW, she studied painting at the School of Art and Design (SOAD), ANU, fresco painting at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India, and architecture at the University of NSW. She formed Lymesmith in 2011- a colour focussed studio working to produce site specific artworks and material palettes for the built environment to reflect her cross-disciplinary interests, and position outside of traditional gallery-based art making. In both her architectural and art work, Sonia is known as Lymesmith.
With a deep understanding of how colour, space and form interact, Lymesmith works with architects, designers and private clients to realize the colour potential within their projects. From innovative material palettes, to painted installations for large-scale public infrastructure, Lymesmith’s work can be enjoyed in parks, universities, restaurants, homes, city laneways, at the pool, and even in the public toilets at Australia’s most iconic beach.
A hybrid practice operating between art and architecture, Lymesmith is first and foremost about exploring colour within, for, and in response to, buildings.
Dan Plummer.
Dan Plummer is a Landscape Architect based in northern NSW. Dan co-founded design studio Plummer & Smith with artist Belinda Smith in 2012- a cross discipline partnership of landscape and art. Since that time the studio has worked on a range of public projects for a variety of different communities- both urban and regional. The studio prides itself on community and environmentally focused outcomes.
Sarah Aldridge.
Since co-founding Space Studio in 2008, Sarah has worked within the Byron community to design and deliver buildings of a high quality that are very much ‘of their place’. Her extensive design and project management experience gained from working across a broad range of project types in Europe and Japan has provided her with a high level of expertise in client liaison and an understanding of complex projects and the importance of community consultation.
Sarah successfully delivered two projects under the Building the Education Revolution P21 funding for Byron Bay Community Primary School and Vistara Primary School, navigating the funding, community liaison, town planning, construction, cost control and programming aspects of the projects.
Sarah has also worked on two projects for Byron Shire Council; the Council Administration centre renovation and as part of the multi-disciplinary team for the Byron Town Centre Masterplan, adopted in 2016 and currently under implementation.
Sarah is a Founding committee member of RAA and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects. Sarah is a registered architect in NSW and the UK.
spacestudio.com.au
instagram.com/spacestudio_
Paulo Macchia.
Paulo is the Director of Design Governance and the Government Architect NSW. He combines skills he has gained from 20 years in the public and private sectors to lead strategy, policy and procurement initiatives that realise public benefits from design. He also established and chairs the Land and Housing Corporation Centre for Design, which works to improve the design quality of social housing in NSW.
Paulo is keen to include regional issues and regional practitioners in the work of the GANSW.
John McKay.
John McKay is an architect who has been practicing across the northern Rivers for 25 years, essentially on domestic projects with some small commercial projects thrown in.
His belief is, to paraphrase Zaha Hadid, that architecture should contribute to society’s wellbeing and our individual & collective progress, which is to say, people drive by his projects, providing the opportunity to learn contribute through the process.
John aims to design long life loose fit buildings that can adapt to an ever-changing world, whilst respecting and representing the immediacy of their time.
He enjoys participating in society’s broader issues and have always volunteered my time in both, community NFP organisations and the local council, the most recent being the Byron Bay Town Centre Masterplan Group.
Matt Eagle.
ME is a studio based practice that emphasises design and research as the primary elements in development. We work with our clients, consultants and craftspeople to achieve considered, sensitive and climatically astute spaces and places. Projects vary from community, interiors, residential, urban design and research.
mearchitect.com
Dan Etheridge of Living Lab Northern Rivers.
Living Lab Northern Rivers is a space where research and community come together to create the solutions that will allow our region to thrive in uncertainty.
A collaboration between two universities and the NSW government, our strength comes from the diversity of groups we bring to the table.
Here, everyone gets the chance to contribute, from farmers to academics, tradies to engineers, Indigenous elders to teenagers, environmental scientists to baristas, architects to musicians, plus any Northern Rivers locals who stroll into our Lismore shopfront.
Recent events across our region have shown the old systems are outdated. We need fresh knowledge to create new ways of doing things to help rebuild better now and pump-up resilience for the future.
It's a mammoth task, but one we believe can be achieved by combining lived experience with rigorous research across a wide range of disciplines.
llnr.com.au
