SEDA Conference 2024. Resilience & Adaptation

Challenging our existing systems, attitudes, cultures, and practices, what action can we take that is impactful, and can make a difference for the benefit of all species on this planet? What Adaptations breaking through the “business as usual model” would create step changes that increase our Collective Resilience?

We will tackle adaptation and resilience from two perspectives: Nature-based solutions and Community-based solutions.

On the evening of Thursday 26th, we will provide an opportunity to see the full film from the Big Conversation. You can book the tickets separately from the Conference. The screening is free, but we will have a donation box to help with expenses.

Over the two days of the Conference we will engage in discussions, reflections and walks.

Keynote Speakers:

Day 1

Sandy Halliday - Gaia Group: Implementing A+ thinkers’ ideas

Martin Brown - Fairsnape: Kinship with nature

Day 2

Sue Roaf - Heriot-Watt University: Buildings First: From Efficiency to Sufficiency

Susan Krumdieck - Heriot-Watt University: Transition Engineering at Local Scale

Other confirmed speakers include:

Cat Payne from SNIFFER, Caitlyn Johnstone from RBGE, David Hunter from The Habitat People, Geoff Squire from the James Hutton Institute, Gokay Deveci from Robert Gordon University, Peter Exley from Robert Gordon University, Rachel Sayers from Feilden Clegg Bradley.

Full details of the speakers will be released on SEDA website shortly - Events — Scottish Ecological Design Association (seda.uk.net)

So please go to Details and reserve your places now, for both or either of the days' Activities and Talks! We would be grateful if you could book early to help us firm up on numbers for refreshments and lunch. You will get a 10% discount on Early Bird tickets until midnight 23rd August!

We hope you can join us for the afternoon walk on Day 1 - From Past to Present with Aberdeen City Heritage Trust and Gardens and Baths with Aberdeen City Council and the Bon Accord Heritage.

Dinner and ceilidh can be booked separately - we would love you to join us!

Lunch and teas/coffees will be included in the ticket price.

On Day 2, the KJ Award finalists from 4 Scottish Schools of Architecture will present their design work and the winner will be announced.

In the afternoon we will be walking or using public transport to get to Greyhope Bay - if you have any access, travel or mobility requirements, please let us know in advance.

We will release more travelling information in due course.

This will be a fully hybrid event. The online programme will cover the talks and panel discussion that run from 10.30 to 15:00 (Day 1) and 15:20 (Day 2). Some elements of the walks on both days will be recorded and made available to watch after the event but will not be live streamed. Members of the online audience will be able to participate fully in the Q&A sessions etc.

The current programme of events can be seen below, and fuller details of the events and speakers will follow shortly on the SEDA webpage.

Tickets are available for the full weekend or individual days, with a reduced rate for Students and Unwaged. SEDA members get cheaper prices as well, so please do consider joining SEDA to take advantage of this and the other membership benefits (like our quarterly digital magazine and further discounts). See:

Become a Member — Scottish Ecological Design Association (seda.uk.net)

Remember, Early Bird ticket prices will end at midnight 23rd August!

We look forward to welcoming you!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Town House, Civic Rooms, AB10 1AQ, Aberdeen, United Kingdom