Moderator: Jill Singer – Journalist, Writer and Broadcaster, Melbourne.
Norman Day
Norman Day is a practising architect, adjunct professor of architecture (RMIT) and architect writer for The Age. He has designed and built in Australia and Asia, notably in Melbourne, Canberra, East Timor and in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho). He worked with the late Robin Boyd and Professor Frederick Romberg before starting his own practice in 1971, now with offices located in Melbourne, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok and Dili.
Enrique Penalosa
Enrique Penalosa is a former mayor of Bogotá, Columbia having served during the years 1998-2001. During his tenure he promoted a city model giving priority to children and public spaces. He implemented a restriction of private car use in the city while instituting from scratch a successful Bus Rapid Transit System, Transmilenio, and built hundreds of kilometres of sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian streets, greenways and parks. Penalosa has recently moved back to Colombia after being a visiting scholar at New York University, working on a book about a Third World city model, which covers fields such as transportation, land use and housing for the poor, pollution abatement, and public space. He has already published a number of books, including Democracy and Capitalism: Challenges of the Coming Century.
John Denton
Founder of one of the most successful Australian-owned international design practices Denton Corker Marshall, Denton is a leading architectural practitioner with extensive experience in design and construction of public, private and government buildings.
The Office of the Victorian Government Architect provides leadership and strategic advice to Government in relation to architecture and urban design. It offers a critical understanding of building design to Government Ministers and Departments responsible for providing public infrastructure. The Office also promotes an awareness of design in the broader community - the process of making great spaces and urban environments.
Peter Mould
Peter Mould has 30 years experience in the design, documentation and construction of architecture and urban design works. He is a member of the NSW Heritage Council and chairs the Design Review Panels for the Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney Harbour Foreshore and Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation. He is a member of the Design Review Panels for Centennial Park and the Roads and Traffic Authority.
Mould was director of the Government Architects Design Directorate for the Public Domain at Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush and was involved in the brief formulation and assessment of the Olympic Village.
Mould is a fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and past Vice President of the NSW Chapter.
His experience is in both the public and private sectors in Australia and overseas. Major works have included Sydney College of the Arts, St Mary’s Cathedral conservation and upgrade works, Circular Quay and Manly Wharves, Parramatta Children’s Court, the master planning for Sydney Cove and the Public Domain at Taronga Zoo, and redevelopment studies for the new hospitals at Bathurst and Orange.
Santha Sheela Nair
Santha Sheela Nair is in charge of rural sanitation as the Secretary, DDWS, Ministry of Rural Development Government of India in New Delhi. Nair is a leading figure in the sustainability debate in India, ensuring that sanitation issues are given high priority at all government levels. Nair is an ardent promoter of rainwater harvesting
Bernard Khoury
Bernard Khoury was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1968. Khoury has been behind numerous experimental projects including "Evolving Scars", implemented in 1993 in the form of recovery and progressive modification of war-damaged buildings in Beirut. Alongside his theoretical projects, Khoury proposes ways of implementing and developing them in practical projects and proposals for construction. He is Co-founder of "Beirut Flight Architects" who are concerned with architecture and design.
Khoury became known for building discothèques and restaurants, notably Club B018 and Centrale, that serve as intelligent monuments intended to transform the trauma of civil war. His radical architecture recognises traumatic events instead of negating them. He is cofounder of Beirut Flight Architects and lectures in architecture at Beirut’s American University and in universities and academic institutions in Europe and the United States.