People with ideas
To the Blue Economy and beyond?
Apr 19th
Our recent event, Smart Design for Sustainable Cities, featuring Dr Gunter Pauli, was a good success. It was great to hear that most people were inspired by Dr Pauli’s vision for a Blue Economy, challenged by Dr Tim William’s thoughts on Sydney’s housing crisis and aligned with Steve Lennon’s view on the need for effective metropolitan governance and community engagement, to create the agile cities we need.
Smart Design for Sustainable Cities
Mar 27th
We are hosting a special Arup/AFR BOSS event for city and business leaders interested in how we can create a more sustainable economy. The theme of the event is Smart Design for Sustainable Cities: The Future, the Now and the How.
Ideas in my Backyard: Game Over (for now)
Mar 27th
We have carefully reviewed the ideas submitted to our ‘Ideas in My Backyard’ session last year. We have decided to hold off on progressing any one of these ideas for the moment, until we are able to mobilise greater support and engagement from local stakeholders in the Ultimo precinct.
Sustainable Suburbs
Nov 2nd
Sustainable Streets Chippendale is an excellent local example of sustainable solutions used to reuse waste, conserve water, source local and healthy food and reduce pollution. Located near the UTS Ultimo campus which recently hosted a New Agenda workshop, the opportunities for real sustainable change in this part of Sydney are great.
Ideas in My Backyard @Ultimo: Game on!
Oct 24th
After our successful launch of Ideas in My Backyard in October, we have extended the date for your best sustainable ideas until 15 November. Read on about some of the best suggestions so far and how you can turn your idea into a reality.
Ideas in My Backyard @Ultimo
Sep 9th
Arup and UTS Business School are working together on an exciting new: Ideas in My Backyard. Over the coming weeks, you are invited to join us ONLINE at The New Agenda website, or to come in person and meet us at UTS’s Haymarket Campus in Ultimo. Regardless of whether you can attend in person, we invite you to submit your best ideas for action that can make a positive impact in your world and inspire others to follow your lead.
Vision Lab Workshop Debrief
Aug 2nd
The latest workshop ‘Vision Lab’ was facilitated by Arup and hosted by UTS:Business School of Management on June 20, 2011. It was agreed that the best way to ‘walk the talk’ is to demonstrate the principles of meaningful engagement, behaviour change, climate change adaptation and socially and ecologically minded business in a live Demonstration Project.
Tracking High Speed Rail in the US
Apr 2nd
With High Speed Rail opportunities being explored in Europe, and Australians looking forward to the day when our own network will connect the East Coast, what lessons can we learn from the new network which will connect San Diego to San Francisco.
Workshop 2: ‘Pitch Design’
Apr 1st
Following the brainstorming session held in August we decided the best way to proceed is to develop a ‘demonstration project’ in a real community. Attended by some of Australia’s best minds, the workshop leverages our collective knowledge of hard and soft infrastructure for the built environment and ensures we move beyond the war of words into specific action.
Workshop 1: ‘Discuss and Debate’
Apr 1st
After our first events in Sydney and Melbourne our contributors have suggested the following items should be on the New Agenda for Australia.