Routes and Roots: Towards Right Relation with Place in Uncertain Times

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. Speaker: Sarah Mineko Ichioka (Founding Director, Desire Lines) This symposium was partially funded by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (project DP200101378). Presented by the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne.