About this Event
Please join us for this free keynote lecture by world-renowned curator, urbanist and author, Sarah Mineko Ichioka.
In this lecture, Sarah discusses how can we design, manage and live in our cities in a way that respects planetary boundaries, while addressing human-centric challenges such as economic inequality, social polarization, and population displacement? Faced with this daunting list of dilemmas, some of us seek comfort in tweaking business-as-usual, while others are increasingly open to considering radical new alternatives. If transformation is our aim, we must approach our current challenges in a way that is grounded in the specificities of the places where we find ourselves—via deep learning about their natural and cultural contexts, yet also nourished by global flows of emerging knowledge.
This public lecture is part of the hosted by the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne.
The symposium brings together local and global voices to campaign for urgent and meaningful change across Australia’s built environment sector, and connects academic, government, and industry experts to influence the national agenda for the transformation of our urban spaces. Home to over 50 per cent of the world’s population, our cities are responsible for up to 75 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. This makes the built environment our greatest challenge but also our greatest opportunity for climate action.
Image: Detail of Los Angeles Eco-Village, from the New Intentional Communities research project led by Sarah Ichioka. Pen and ink illustration by Victor Ichioka, courtesy Sarah Ichioka.
About the speaker
Sarah Mineko Ichioka is a strategist, urbanist, curator and author. She is Founding Director of Desire Lines, a consultancy for environmental, cultural, and social-impact organizations and initiatives. In previous roles, she has explored the intersections of cities, society and ecology within leading international institutions of culture, policy and research in the United States, Asia and Europe.
Sarah has been recognized as a World Cities Summit Young Leader, one of the Global Public Interest Design 100, a British Council / Clore Duffield Cultural Leadership International Fellow, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
She currently serves on the boards of The Klosters Forum (Switzerland), Participate in Design (Singapore) and the ArtScience Museum (Singapore).
Her book 'Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency' (Triarchy, 2021/2022), co-authored with Michael Pawlyn, proposes a bold set of regenerative principles to transform how we design, make and manage our buildings, infrastructure and communities.
Her expert opinions and reportage have been featured in diverse outlets including the Financial Times, Dezeen, CNN.com, Channel News Asia, Monocle, publicspace.org, Folha de S.Paulo, BBC London, Wallpaper* and Bloomberg CityLab.
Sarah has served as an adviser or judge for many diverse projects, including the XXII and XXIII editions of the Triennale di Milano, the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge, Water as Leverage for Resilient Cities Asia, the European Prize for Urban Public Space, and the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
She holds degrees from Yale University and the London School of Economics & Political Science.
Sarah Mineko Ichioka is the 2024 Treseder Fellow at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, and we are grateful for the generous ongoing support of the Robert Garland Treseder Fellowship.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lecture Theatre 1 (B117), Glyn Davis Building, The University of Melbourne, Masson Road, Parkville, Australia
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