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Geelong's Changing Landscape Book - Shortlisted for Victorian Premier’s History Award and Victorian Community History Awards

23/10/2020

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Announcement of winners on 28th October 2020 at 4:30pm. Watch online at https://prov.vic.gov.au/community/grants-and-awards/community-history-awards 
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PROVchannel/videos
Facebook: ​https://www.facebook.com/PublicRecordOfficeVictoria 
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Biophilic Landscapes Towards Healing: Experience the Best Teacher - Nature

14/10/2020

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Join the Talk at:https://aila.delegateconnect.co/talks/biophilic-landscapes-application-in-education-spaces
2020 AILA Land-E-Scape: Reset - Towards healing. https://landscapeaustralia.com/calendar/conference/2020-aila-land-e-scape-reset-towards-healing/
Overview:
Biophilia, suggests that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life, and thus as humans we seek “the urge to affiliate with other forms of life”. To be able to reflect how biophilia can be expressed in the design of educational environments, we need to understand what it is about nature that creates a sense of well-being and the subconscious engagement of place. We know from a significant body of research that sensory connection to nature initiates in us reactions that enhance well-being and healing. Biophilic design needs to include these deep patterns of connection.  
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Public Lecture:  'A New Pattern language: Regenerative-Adaptive Design for Architects'

5/10/2020

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​Short Description:
In 1982 eminent architect, mathematician, writer and visionary thinker Christopher Alexander challenged the status of modern architecture in a public debate with Peter Eisenman, hosted at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He openly announced that modern architecture is messing up the world. The importance of this debate has been widely recognised. The writings of A Pattern Language (1977) fundamentally lies at the core of Alexander’s reasoning, raising the issue that we need an architecture that is embedded in the generative codes of nature, that is alive, and that can result in living structures. He referred to a design of ‘deep sustainability’ informed by the Nature of Order.  Nearly 40 years later, the evidence is all around us that the way we have designed and built our cities has been almost un-imaginably bad and unacceptable, and has resulted in a degeneration of the earth's natural systems, now eventuating in unprecedented impacts of a changing climate. 
 
In this lecture Dr Roös set the context of the need for a new paradigm in architecture, raising the debate to new heights for scaffolding a world view of ecological responsibility. The narrative explores the  fundamentals for a more holistic, all encompassing, integral method, presenting a regenerative-adaptive pattern language for sustainable development, that re-establishes our wholeness with nature, and considers the vulnerabilities of a changing landscape. Reflecting on his learnings in practice and research, he ask us the question: What is the legacy that you will leave behind for future generations? It is time to change.
Link to Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/736493056941440 Link to Live Stream (Facebook Live): https://www.facebook.com/reallectures/posts/4856648807680362
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New Book orders Available: Regenerative-Adaptive Design for Sustainable Development: A Pattern Language Approach

1/7/2020

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​​Author: Dr Phillip B. Roös
  • Proposes a new theory for the sustainable development and planning of human settlements and cities
  • Explores the human-nature relationship patterns between people and their natural environments
  • Uniquely incorporates information on advanced indigenous knowledge systems 
  • Charters a new pattern language that embeds the biophilia hypothesis within design and planning practice
Now available at: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030532338
In this book, the author tests a regenerative-adaptive pattern language theory towards investigating the possibilities of a holistic, integrated design and planning method for sustainable development that incorporates the principles of regenerative design, as well as an adaptive pattern language that re-establishes our wholeness with nature, and considers the vulnerabilities of a changing landscape. The book examines an integral approach to contemporary theories of planning and design that explores the human-nature relationship patterns in social and spatial interconnections, between people and their natural environments. The interconnectedness of human and natural systems is used to scaffold possible solutions to address key environmental and sustainability issues that specifically address the need for patterns of behaviour that acknowledge the duality of ‘man and nature’. In 12 chapters, the book presents a holistic, regenerative adaptive pattern language that encapsulates how communities can better appreciate landscape change under future climate effects, and acknowledges the importance to adapt to patterns of change of place and the environment and therefore inform the communities’ responses for sustainable development. The application of the regenerative-adaptive pattern language was tested along the Great Ocean Road region of the Victorian coast in Australia.
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The secret to making working from home a happy, healthy place to be.

1/7/2020

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How home office design impacts on wellbeing and productivity is being investigated in a new project that aims to identify the elements needed to create a happy home workspace. Researchers from Deakin University's Live+Smart Research Lab in the School of Architecture and Built Environment have partnered with a team from Deakin's School of Psychology to identify the design elements needed to improve mental health outcomes for home-based workers Director of the Live+Smart Research Lab, Dr Phill Roös said the research project was prompted by the numbers of people working from home as a result of COVID-19 restrictions "Many home workspaces are temporary setups in shared areas of the home such as dining rooms, kitchen counters or bedrooms so there is a lack of privacy and the chance of frequent interruptions," Dr Roös said.
For further information see link: https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/media-releases/articles/the-secret-to-making-working-from-home-a-happy,-healthy-place-to-be

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Designed by Nature: Sensory Architecture

8/5/2020

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This Webinar is now available to view on youtube: YouTube channel 
​or this link by Deakin Webinars: Designed by Nature: How sensory architecture can improve our well-being

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Spending time in nature has significant positive effects on our emotional and physical wellbeing. How do we maintain this in a time of ever-increasing urbanisation?
In this webinar, Dr Phillip Roös explores the concept of our human desire to be part of nature, also known as Biophilia, and how this can inform architecture in wonderful ways.

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Designed by nature: Sensory architecture and wellbeing

9/2/2020

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What does it take to give a building soul? In this webinar, Dr Phillip Roös will explore the concept of our human desire to be part of nature, also known as biophilia, and how this can inform architecture in wonderful ways. He will focus on how these natural design elements have historically been integrated in architecture, some current best practice examples, and the positive effects they can have on our well-being. 
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DATE
Wednesday 26 February 2020.

TIME
12.30 pm
 - 1.30 pm AEDT
VENUE
Online.       
Register at: Deakin Online registration
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Biophilia: the concept of nature in design

27/9/2019

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Watch the broadcast
https://australiascience.tv/vod/biophilia-the-concept-of-nature-in-design/
More here: Deeper connections: https://australiascience.tv/adding-nature-to-our-grand-designs/ 
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Real Lecture Series Deakin DEAKIN UNIVERSITY - 'The Architecture for Life'

1/4/2019

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Nature Design and Us

15/2/2019

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NATURE DESIGN AND US | Biophilic Design Day (Melbourne Design Week in Geelong)
  • Saturday, March 23, 2019
  • 9:00 AM 5:00 PM 09:00 17:00
  • The School of Lost Arts221 Noble St Geelong Australia
https://www.theschooloflostarts.com.au/events/nature-design-and-us-biophilic-design-day
Come and join us in a full a one-day examination of the importance of recognizing our innate and fundamental need to be in nature and how we can design our homes and cities to include more of it and be better places in which to live. This will be a unique, immersive day of talks, workshops, installations and discussion to open your minds to the design possibilities of connecting to nature.
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