Essential for: Head of Programming & Marketing, Organisation Leaders, Board and Executive Management, Facilities and Infrastructure Management, Building and Operational Staff, Theatre Design and Planning Consultants
Sustainability efforts often focus on achieving “net-zero” or “carbon neutrality,” primarily aim to minimise harm. As the climate crisis deepens, there is a growing need to shift from sustaining to actively regenerating the culture, ecosystems and communities in which we operate.
By embedding First Nations principles of our interconnectedness with nature, this session will explore the importance of nature and how performing arts centres can evolve into active contributors to ecological and social regeneration, with time for questions & discussion
Outcome:
- Understand First Nations perspectives on our interconnectedness with nature
- Recognise nature’s critical role in the climate crisis, and ours in supporting it
- Learn about regenerative infrastructure
Meet the Speakers
Amanda Sturgeon
A voice for nature through Regenerative Design, Amanda Sturgeon is an Architect, CEO, Author, Speaker and Consultant. Whatever the role Amanda’s mission is the same: to connect people and nature.
Amanda’s mission is grounded in the belief that climate change and biodiversity loss are the two critical issues of our time. Only by repairing the relationship that people have with the natural world can we shift from a ‘take, make, waste’ society towards a regenerative one.
Amanda is currently the CEO of the Biomimicry Institute Australia, and a non-executive director on the Climate Action Network Australia. She was previously the CEO of Built by Nature, Regenerative Design Lead at at global consultancy firm Mott MacDonald. As the former CEO of the International Living Future Institute, she spent a decade creating regenerative frameworks such as the Living Building and Community Challenge programs, scaled the organization globally and created a global movement around Biophilic Design.
Amanda is an award-winning architect, author of Creating Biophilic Buildings, a TED Speaker on Bringing Biophilic Design to Life and has an essay in the recently released anthology All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions to Climate Change (September 2020)
Claire G. Coleman
Claire G. Coleman is a Noongar woman whose family have belonded to the south coast of Western Australia since long before history started being recorded. Born in Perth, she has lived away from her ancestral country most of her life in and around Melbourne, Victoria.
Claire is a Co-founded and lead writer at the Centre for Reworlding and has been a member of the cultural advisory committee for Agency, a Not-for-profit Indigenous arts Consultancy since mid-2020.
Claire writes fiction, non-fiction, essays, poetry, art reviews and undertook a commissioned play for the Malthouse Theatre.
Her debut novel Terra Nullius (2017), published in Australia and in the US, won a Norma K. Hemming Award and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and an Aurealis Award.
Her second novel The Old Lie (2019), followed by non-fiction book Lies Damned Lines: A personal exploration of the impact of colonisation (2021), and Enclave (2022).
Her essays, poetry, short fiction, and art criticism has been published in The Saturday Paper, The Guardian, Spectrum, Meanjin, Australian Poetry, Griffith Review and many others.