The notion of placemaking has shifted considerably in the last decade, shifting from a largely artistic-based plan to one that encompasses all levels of precinct and community design. This breakout will explore what placemaking means today through lenses including equitable design, First Nations-led placemaking and circular economy.

• Chair’s introduction 
  Nick Alsop, Senior Manager – Buildings, Precincts and Homes, Green Building Council of Australia
• Placemaking for precincts, the evolution
  Professor Dan Hill, Director, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne
• Scaling co-design – creating precincts on Country
  Michael Hromek, Technical Executive – Indigenous (Architecture), Design and Knowledge, WSP
• Panel: The path to a net-zero precinct – electrification, circularity and embodied carbon 
  Nick Alsop, Senior Manager – Buildings, Precincts and Homes, Green Building Council of Australia
  Monica Richter, Project Director, MECLA Materials & Embodied Carbon Leaders’ Alliance
  David Clark, Director, Positive Zero
• Case study: Addressing sustainability in sporting precincts.

This recording took place during Transform 2024