Exploring Circularity through Material Reuse
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Accessible bathroom, All gender bathroom, Seating available, Wheelchair accessibleHow can the City of Melbourne achieve its aspirations for reducing embodied carbon across its design projects? Join City of Melbourne for a workshop focusing on the challenges and opportunities for innovation in material re-use. Guest speakers Kaia McCarthy-Smith, Hilary Duff and Claire Ellis will share inspiring examples from both home and abroad on leading innovation in material reuse in design and built environment. Participants will have the opportunity to explore this theme through a hands-on activity designing for a new open space in the City of Melbourne.
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Jocelyn Chiew is an architect, landscape architect and urban designer. As the Director City Design, at the City of Melbourne, she plays a key role in creating inclusive and enduring public spaces. Jocelyn leads the city’s Design Excellence Program and is Deputy Chair of the Melbourne Design Review Panel. Her practice, City Design, is a multidisciplinary studio which develops and delivers urban design strategies, design standards and public works. City Design also provides design review for city shaping development proposals.
Katie is a landscape architect with a focus on public realm strategy and delivery, working across local government and private practice over the past decade. As Principal Landscape Architect and Design Manger at the City of Melbourne she currently leads a multi-disciplinary team of industrial designers, architects, urban designers and landscape architects to design, manage and deliver the city’s places. She is also a ceramicist and is fascinated by the relationship between making and design.
Kaia McCarty-Smith is the founder of Wilderness Building Co, a residential and commercial building practice. Having 14 years experience in the building industry, he was initially critical of what he observed and he wondered whether it was possible to do better. After observing the cultural dynamics and environmental problems that beset the industry, he formed Wilderness Building Co. to explore what a modern, progressive and environmentally conscious building company could be. With a sharp focus on Passivhaus, reducing waste, adaptive re-use and the retrofit typology, they have recently completed Australia’s first net-zero retrofit of an apartment building.Â
Melbourne-based architect Hilary, currently at Kennedy Nolan Architects, is deeply passionate about the interplay of materials and their impact on spaces, people and the globe. Engaging in diverse creative pursuits as an architect, podcaster and immersive theatre designer, she explores the convergence of architecture, art, and technology. In 2023, she received research funding for [Again & again & again], a podcast series investigating circular design in the built environment, capturing insights from sustainability pioneers.
Claire Ellis is a Canadian-born ceramic artist and designer based on the lands of the Kulin Nation. Influenced by her former career as a chef, her practice is informed by a focus on existing resources and deep experimentation. In 2022 her work won the innovation award at the Warrandyte Pottery Expo and was a finalist in several environmental art and design prizes. Claire is passionate about climate justice and aims to create opportunities for catharsis and political change through her work.
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Accessible bathroom, All gender bathroom, Seating available, Wheelchair accessibleHow can the City of Melbourne achieve its aspirations for reducing embodied carbon across its design projects? Join City of Melbourne for a workshop focusing on the challenges and opportunities for innovation in material re-use. Guest speakers Kaia McCarthy-Smith, Hilary Duff and Claire Ellis will share inspiring examples from both home and abroad on leading innovation in material reuse in design and built environment. Participants will have the opportunity to explore this theme through a hands-on activity designing for a new open space in the City of Melbourne.
Participants
Jocelyn Chiew is an architect, landscape architect and urban designer. As the Director City Design, at the City of Melbourne, she plays a key role in creating inclusive and enduring public spaces. Jocelyn leads the city’s Design Excellence Program and is Deputy Chair of the Melbourne Design Review Panel. Her practice, City Design, is a multidisciplinary studio which develops and delivers urban design strategies, design standards and public works. City Design also provides design review for city shaping development proposals.
Katie is a landscape architect with a focus on public realm strategy and delivery, working across local government and private practice over the past decade. As Principal Landscape Architect and Design Manger at the City of Melbourne she currently leads a multi-disciplinary team of industrial designers, architects, urban designers and landscape architects to design, manage and deliver the city’s places. She is also a ceramicist and is fascinated by the relationship between making and design.
Kaia McCarty-Smith is the founder of Wilderness Building Co, a residential and commercial building practice. Having 14 years experience in the building industry, he was initially critical of what he observed and he wondered whether it was possible to do better. After observing the cultural dynamics and environmental problems that beset the industry, he formed Wilderness Building Co. to explore what a modern, progressive and environmentally conscious building company could be. With a sharp focus on Passivhaus, reducing waste, adaptive re-use and the retrofit typology, they have recently completed Australia’s first net-zero retrofit of an apartment building.Â
Melbourne-based architect Hilary, currently at Kennedy Nolan Architects, is deeply passionate about the interplay of materials and their impact on spaces, people and the globe. Engaging in diverse creative pursuits as an architect, podcaster and immersive theatre designer, she explores the convergence of architecture, art, and technology. In 2023, she received research funding for [Again & again & again], a podcast series investigating circular design in the built environment, capturing insights from sustainability pioneers.
Claire Ellis is a Canadian-born ceramic artist and designer based on the lands of the Kulin Nation. Influenced by her former career as a chef, her practice is informed by a focus on existing resources and deep experimentation. In 2022 her work won the innovation award at the Warrandyte Pottery Expo and was a finalist in several environmental art and design prizes. Claire is passionate about climate justice and aims to create opportunities for catharsis and political change through her work.