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Day One: Tuesday 21st July
| Day One | Day Two |
8.30
Registration and coffee
8.50
Speed Networking Session

Get to know your peers right from the start in this relaxed and informal speed networking session. Bring your business cards!

9.00
Chair’s opening address
GOVERNMENT PERSPECTIVE
UTILISING PPPS TO DRIVE AUSTRALIA’S INFRASTRUCTURE CREATION
9.05
Federal Government Address: Building the Education Revolution – Impact on planning, design and construction for schools in Australia
  • Reviewing the BER initiative and results achieved to date
Gillian Mitchell, Branch Manager, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
9.40
Open Discussion: BER Review
  • Reviewing BER milestones
  • Implementation challenges and issues
  • Areas for future improvement
*This will be an all inclusive, open discussion aiming to involve all organisations dealing directly with the Building the Education Revolution program.
USER PERSPECTIVES
10.30
Morning Tea
10.50
Linking Pedagogy and the Learning Environment – A Catholic School Perspective
  • Today’s world
  • The Parramatta CEO Learning Framework
  • Linking contemporary pedagogy to contemporary learning environments
Greg Whitby, Executive Director of Schools, Catholic Education Office, Diocese of Parramatta, NSW
11.25
Role of educators in planning and design – A Public School Perspective
  • Removing traditional approaches to classroom construction through educational reform
  • Facilitating autonomous learning through classroom design
  • Wooranna Park as a test case to support progressive learning: results to date
Ray Trotter, Principal, Wooranna Park Primary School, Victoria
12.00
Case Study: Melbourne Girls Grammar – The Years Five to Eight Learning Centre
  • Our new purpose built Centre for Years 5 to 8 will open in 2011 reflecting an understanding of current research on how young adolescents learn. This will complement a learning focused and innovative program
Diane Bourke, Head of Junior School, Melbourne Girls Grammar
Sally Draper, Architect, Sally Draper Architects
12.35
Lunch
1.30
Panel Discussion: Methodologies to increase student and teacher engagement within the planning and design context
  • How can those in the design sphere increase linkage and collaboration with educational leaders?
  • Educational change and its impact on school planning, design and construction
  • Do changes to organisational and pedagogy structure in schools require a parallel change in school design?
  • The importance of synchronising policy, pedagogy, practice and design
Senior Representative, Australian Primary Principals Association
Clare Newton, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, University of Melbourne
PEDAGOGY & DESIGN
2.15
Teaching and learning models reflected from the physical form
  • Australian Research Council Linkage Project
    • Investigating the connection between design and contemporary learning
  • Theories for the direct improvement of educational practice
Dr. Deirdre Barron, Faculty of Design, Swinburne University
2.50
Collaboration and consultation in critical design processes
  • The importance of open dialogue and genuine consultation
  • Methods to cement great architect/client relationships
  • Working with schools to incorporating design which articulates school vision and learning principles
  • Case study example
Peter Moeck, Director, Brown Falconer Group
Rob Thomas, Principal, Australian Technical College Northern Adelaide
3.25
Learning Spaces - a discussion for architects and educators
  • This presentation will outline emerging research on the relationship between education and the design or learning spaces, in particular how changing pedagogical methods have spatial implications
  • New research and teaching initiatives at the University of Melbourne will underpin this presentation and Clare Newton will outline some early findings from the perspective of her role as Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Linkage Grant called, Smart Green Schools
  • The presentation will include an update on a recently funded proposal to set up a research centre between Faculties of Education and Architecture
Clare Newton, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, University of Melbourne
4.00
Afternoon tea
4.20
Tailoring and customising school design to overcome the challenges of time
  • Designing schools in a transitory environment
  • Finding the balance between under design and over design
Annalise Gehling, Associate, Fielding Nair International
4.55
The impact of Pedagogy on the specifics of site and building design - both new and existing
Tim Hurburgh, Director, H2o Architects
5.30
Closing remarks from the chair
5.35
End of Day One
 
Day Two: Wednesday 22nd July
| Day One | Day Two |
8.30
Coffee and networking
9.00
Opening remarks from the chair
9.05
Exploring Bovis Lend Lease’s design and delivery model for large scale capital works programmes
  • Integration of an end-to-end solution for programme management, design, procurement and delivery
  • Demonstrated through multisite case studies
Greg McCourt, General Manager Multisite Unit, Bovis Lend Lease
9.40
Case Study from abroad - Special Needs School, Abu Dhabi
  • Pedagogy
  • Master planning for expansion
  • Modular design
  • Sustainable design
  • Architectural Expression – design for the local context
Sarah Ball, Principal, Woods Bagot
10.15
Morning Tea
IMPORTANCE OF MASTER PLANNING
10.45
Masterplanning for schools
  • Master planning and stakeholder consultation
  • Linking masterplanning and pedagogy
  • Developing multi-layered plans
  • Case studies and examples
Andrew Pender, Director, PMDL Architecture & Design
TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION & SUSTAINABILITY
11.20
Technology the key enabler of collaborative learning
  • The shift toward collaborative learning and its impact on learning space design
  • Integration of ICT and multimedia technologies in a classroom environment
  • Embedding technology into learning spaces – best practices
Garry Putland, General Manager, Education.au
11.55
Building an education revolution? Designing places for democratic relationships and deep learning
Mary Featherston, Interior Designer, Featherston Design
12.30
Lunch
2.00
Incorporating environmentally sustainable principles into school design and architecture
  • Creating true sustainability based learning environments for students
  • Impact of sustainable technologies on school design and flexible learning spaces
  • Applying ESD principles and strategies to reduce ecological footprints
  • FMSA case studies and examples
Peter Sandow, Director, FMSA Architecture
2.35
Developing responsive learning spaces
  • Incorporating and promoting group and project work with flexible spaces and open common areas
  • Examples:
    • Camberwell Girls Grammar
    • Dandenong Education Precinct
    • St Columba’s College
Richard Leonard, President Victorian Chapter, Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI) and Director, Hay
3.10
Closing remarks from the chair
3.15
Close of conference
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