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How does apartment design impact our mental health and wellbeing?
This webinar is the next instalment of the Climate Change, Place, and Mental Health Incubator webinar series supported by the Henry Halloran Urban and Regional Research Initiative. These webinars aim to showcase research showing often-unappreciated link between our built environments and mental health.
In this session our presenters will be exploring the impacts of apartment design on resident mental health and wellbeing. Join us to hear from three experts who will be discussing this issue from both the research and policy perspectives.
Monday, 26 May 2025, 1pm AEST
Zoom Webinar
Questioning the great Australian Dream?
As Australia grapples with a deepening housing crisis, this panel interrogates the nature of the crisis and wider notions of the great Australian dream.
Sparked by the exhibition In Suburbia: Recent Detours, which engages with a diverse spectrum of housing types and experiences across urban and regional Australia, we ask an architect, planner, and artist how they understand the housing problem and how to solve it.
Is it only about building new supply? Do we have to abandon the suburban ideal in favour of ‘high density’ living? Is home ownership over for younger generations? Can we imagine a more environmentally sound and socially inclusive suburbia?
The panel discussion was a conversation about the housing problem and how to fix it, sparked by the exhibition: ‘In Suburbia: Recent Detours’, which engages with a diverse spectrum of housing types and experiences across urban and regional Australia, curated by Gavin Wilson.
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 5:30pm AEST
Digital decarbonisation plans in Taiwan, Japan and Australia
Countries are adopting diverse strategies to achieve net zero, increasingly using digital technologies like AI to boost impact. However, national decarbonisation goals vary widely, reflecting differing technological, climatic, cultural and economic contexts. Justice is also a key concern, with varying approaches to fairness in digital decarbonisation. This talk explores how Japan, Taiwan and Australia envision and implement digital decarbonisation and just transition, highlighting the complex interplay between technology, climate and society.
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 4pm - 5pm AEST
Wilkinson Building (G04), The University of Sydney
Countering Spatial Injustice in The U.S.: The Promise of "Zoning for Equity"
The U.S. is infamously segregated by class, race, and ethnicity, and planners are partly responsible. Zoning in the U.S. excludes low-income families from affluent neighborhoods and communities, exposes vulnerable people to harms and hazards, and limits housing choices for renters. In recent years, however, U.S. planners have recognized these injustices and advanced new proposals to “zone for equity.” After a review of the legacy of zoning as an instrument of “American Apartheid,” this lecture will highlight recent efforts to make spatial planning and zoning more equitable in the U.S.
Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 5pm - 6pm AEST
Michael Spence Building Auditorium, The University of Sydney
What's mould doing to our mental health?
It is well documented that exposure to mould over time affects our physical health. But what about our mental health?
In the first instalment of the Climate Change, Place and Mental Health Incubator webinar series, join us to hear from experts and learn more about the impacts of mould exposure on our mental health.
Wed 19th March 2025, 1pm - 2pm AEST
Planning reform for affordable housing supply? International evidence and Australian policy debates
Planning reform features heavily in Australia’s housing policy agenda, underpinning the National Housing Accord to deliver 1.2 million homes over the next five years. Australia is not alone: in recent years jurisdictions across the United States and Canada have embarked on or are considering widespread ‘upzoning’ strategies designed to overcome local regulatory constraints on housing development. This event considers the latest policy debates and research on planning reforms and housing outcomes in North America in relation to Australia’s own reform agendas and affordability ambitions.
Wed 19th Feb 2025, 5:30pm - 7pm AEST
Eastern Avenue Auditorium, The University of Sydney
Festival of 'Public' Urbanism
Centring Nature in the Transformation of Urban Spaces
Amidst the growing housing crisis and rising urban heat, prioritising nature in city planning is vital.As cities face a housing crisis and rising urban heat, prioritising nature in planning is more important than ever. Current approaches often overlook the needs of other species, leading to poor environmental outcomes and missed opportunities to create healthier, more vibrant urban spaces. In partnership with the Henry Halloran Trust, a panel of experts will explore how multispecies justice can guide nature-based planning solutions and help rebalance human–environment relations.
Thu 20th Jun 2024, 5:30 pm - 7 pm AEST
The Sybil Centre, The Women's College, The University of Sydney
Book Launch: Planning Better Cities - A Practical Guide
With planners and planning increasingly in the public spotlight, how do new graduates navigate a planning career, and what do senior practitioners wish they’d known? Join us to launch Planning Better Cities: A practical Guide featuring insights by author and esteemed planner Halvard Dalheim as well as a panel of early career and senior practitioners.
6th June 2024, 4:00-5:00pm AEST.
Wilkinson Building, Lecture Theater 250
Public Lecture: Designing With People
Join us for the "Public Designing with People" event, an open forum for exploring collaborative design processes.
10th April 2024, 5:00-6:00pm AEST.
The Michael Spence Building (F23)
Wealthscapes: The Spatial Polarisation of Housing Markets and Divided Access to Housing Wealth Accumulation
Join us for the Henry Halloran Research Trust address with Dr Rowan Arundel from the University of Amsterdam.
Book launch: The Great Housing Hijack
Join us for the launch of Dr Cameron K. Murray’s book, The Great Housing Hijack
Housing in Amsterdam and the Netherlands
Join us for a Henry Halloran Research Trust address with Professor Richard Ronald from University of Amsterdam.
Festival of 'contested' Urbanism 2023
Melbourne / Tasmania / Perth / Canberra / Sydney:
11- 15 September 2023
Sydney:
16 - 22 September 2023
Housing Affordability and Keyworkers
Join us for a panel discussion with Dr Catherine Gilbert, Lucy Fokkema and David Borger.
Putting the Blame on Planning: Housing crisis and reform in Ireland
Join us for a Henry Halloran Research Trust address with Associate Professor Declan Redmond from University College Dublin.
Lecture Slides (pptx, 5.8MB)
Housing System Change: An International Perspective
Join us for the Henry Halloran Research Trust address with Professor Mark Stephens from the University of Glasgow.
Homelessness and Mobile Communication: Seminar and Book Launch
Join us for the launch of Dr Justine Humphry’s book, Homelessness and Mobile Communication – Precariously Connected.
Designers in Government Showcase and Awards Ceremony
Join us for an evening of design excellence with the Designers in Government Showcase and the announcement of the winners of the Australian Urban Design Awards.
Festival of 'future' Urbanism 2022
The 9th Festival of Urbanism asks how our future cities and regions will change, and what interventions are needed to address the mistakes of the past.
Festival of 'endangered' Urbanism 2021
Join us for a series of panels as experts discuss threats to our cities, from the global pandemic to social division, economic turmoil, and deepening climate risk.
See the program and panel recordings for the 2021 Festival of 'endangered' Urbanism.
Lacaton & Vassal: Rothwell Chair Symposium 2021 (Session 4)
Henry Halloran Trust Director Nicole Gurran spoke as part of the Symposium “Living in the city: exemplary social and affordable housing design”, curated by Lacaton & Vassal, 2021 Pritzker Prize Laureates.
Network for Research in the Built Environment and Mental Health Webinars
Below are two recent webinars from The Network for Research in the Built Environment and Mental Health. Both webinars are available to watch through the Matilda Centre's YouTube channel.
Watch 'The Natural Environment and Mental Health' webinar
Watch the 'Built Environment and Mental Health' webinar presented by Dr Laura McGrath from Open University UK
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