In collaboration with the Alastair Swayn Foundation.

The burning questions of the future of humanity need to be considered within areas inhabited by most of the population today: the cities. How and where we live is one of the biggest challenges of the century. High- and low-density residential architecture are two extreme approaches to dwelling, both with negative outcomes. This symposium seeks to overcome the dialectics and consider several medium-density developments dating back from the 1970s Canberra, including Michael Dysart’s Urambi Village and Harry Seidler’s Lakeview in Yarralumla, to inspire and discuss more sustainable urban pathways.

Join the conversation with:

• Tony Fry – Adjunct Professor of the University of Tasmania, founder and director of The Studio at the Edge of the World, Visiting Professor at the University of Ibague, Columbia,

• Simon Anderson – Emeritus Professor, University of Western Australia

• Jeremy Mather – Director of Mather Architecture

• Jenny Edwards – Owner, Managing Director and Lead Scientist of Light House Architecture and Science

• Adina Cirson – Executive Director of ACT Property Council

• Rahmatollah Amirjani – Architecture Lecturer at University of Canberra

• Dr Milica Muminovic – Senior Lecturer with the Faculty of Arts and Design at University of Canberra