Conference Program
| FRIDAY 23 MARCH 2018 – Garden Tour | |
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| 8.15 – 5.30 | Conference Garden Tour |
| Destinations | |
| Bolinda Vale Main House Garden, Oak House Garden, Woodend North Garden, Trentham Garden, Garden of St Erth | |
| Depart/Return: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre [1] |
| MCEC [1] | SATURDAY 24 MARCH 2018 – Conference Day 1 |
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| 8.00 – 8.50 | Conference Registration |
| 9.00 – 9.10 | Day 1 Welcome |
| Warwick Forge, Conference Director | |
| 9.10 – 10.00 | Kathryn Gustafson |
| Influences: Including the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain | |
| 10.00 – 10.45 | Dr Kate Cullity |
| Beauty, Aesthetics and Care: Poetic Expressions of Landscape and Culture | |
| 10.45 – 11.15 | Morning Tea |
| 11.15 – 12.00 | Dr Noel Kingsbury |
| Wild Style (Naturalistic) Planting | |
| 12.00 – 12.45 | Bernard Trainor |
| Designing Spaces: with the borrowed landscape or for place, privacy and solitude | |
| 12.45 – 1.00 | Rapporteur |
| Morning Speakers with Peter Watts | |
| 1.00 – 2.00 | Lunch |
| 2.00 – 2.45 | Miguel Urquijo |
| Continental-Mediterranean Gardens: from Andalucian grandeur to ignoto (unexplored) gardening in Castile | |
| 2.45 – 3.30 | Professor Cassian Schmidt |
| Formulaic Mixed Perennial Plantings: new ways to green our cities | |
| 3.30 – 4.00 | Afternoon Tea |
| 4.00 – 4.45 | Andy Sturgeon |
| Sources of Inspiration: ideas and allegories for our projects | |
| 4.45 – 5.00 | Rapporteur |
| Afternoon Speakers with Peter Watts | |
| 5.00 | Close |
| 5.15 | Coaches depart for Speakers’ Dinner Show Gardens Tour, Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show |
| 5.45 | Drinks and Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show Gardens Tour |
| 7.00 | Speakers’ Dinner at the Great Hall, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton |
| MCEC [1] | SUNDAY 25 MARCH 2018 – Conference Day 2 |
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| 9.00 – 9.05 | Day 2 Welcome |
| Warwick Forge, Conference Director | |
| 9.05 – 9.50 | Professor Cassian Schmidt |
| Inspired by Nature: The New German Style and the Dutch Wave | |
| 9.50 – 10.35 | Andy Sturgeon |
| Making the Modern Garden: the history of garden design as a springboard | |
| 10.35 – 11.00 | Morning Tea |
| 11.00 – 11.45 | Miguel Urquijo |
| Interpreting the Site and Landscape Integration | |
| 11.45 – 12.30 | Sam Cox |
| Naturalism in Australian Landscape Design: hands on and soft edges | |
| 12.30 – 12.45 | Rapporteur |
| Morning Speakers with Peter Watts | |
| 12.45 – 1.45 | Lunch |
| 1.45 – 2.00 | Michael Warner, Warners Nurseries, Major Sponsor |
| Reimagining the Urban Landscape | |
| 2.00 – 2.45 | Dr Noel Kingsbury |
| Women, Men and Gardening | |
| 2.45 – 3.30 | Bernard Trainor |
| Planting Design: thoughtful planting strategies and methods | |
| 3.30 – 4.00 | Afternoon Tea |
| 4.00 – 4.45 | Kathryn Gustafson |
| Landscape Architecture in Asia: Including Singapore’s Marina One and Hong Kong’s Taikoo Place | |
| 4.45 – 5.00 | Rapporteur |
| Afternoon Speakers with Peter Watts | |
| 5.00 | Conference Closure |
| Burnley [2] | MONDAY 26 MARCH 2018 – Workshops Day 1 |
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| 8.45 – 9.00 | Workshop Registration |
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Workshop sessions |
| Noel Kingsbury, Bettina Jaugstetter, Andy Sturgeon, Claire Takacs | |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Morning Tea |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Workshop sessions |
| Noel Kingsbury (continued), Bettina Jaugstetter, Andy Sturgeon, Kate Cullity/Lisa Howard | |
| 12.30 – 1.30 | Break for Lunch |
| Workshops not catered, but retail food outlets nearby | |
| 1.30 – 3.00 | Workshop sessions |
| Noel Kingsbury, Cassian Schmidt, Sam Cox, Angus Stewart | |
| 3.00 – 3.30 | Afternoon Tea |
| 3.30 – 5.00 | Workshop sessions |
| Noel Kingsbury (continued), Cassian Schmidt, Anna Turner |
| Burnley [2] | TUESDAY 27 MARCH 2018 – Workshops Day 2 |
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| 8.45 – 9.00 | Workshop Registration |
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Workshop sessions |
| Claire Takacs, Sam Cox, Arno King, Ed Snodgrass | |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Morning Tea |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Workshop sessions |
| Angus Stewart, Ed Snodgrass, Andrew Laidlaw, Mel Ogden |
| [1] MCEC | Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre 1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf, Melbourne Victoria, Australia |
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| [2] Burnley | Burnley Campus, University of Melbourne 500 Yarra Boulevard, Richmond Victoria, Australia |