2010 Speakers

Janine Cahill

CEO Future Journeys & Live Futures 2020 Festival Director
11am

Brian Lennon

Brian Lennon is a retired academic who taught mathematics and mathematics education at Deakin University. He wrote one of the first units in Australia on Dynamical Systems Theory (Chaos Theory), a foundation mathematics for climate change and other feed-back systems models. In these programs, and in energy presentations on nuclear and renewable energy approaches, he was putting sustainable energy and climate change on the agenda more than twenty years ago.

Brian is at the Live Futures 2020 Festival to give a presentation and conduct a workshop on the Beyond Zero Emissions Zero Carbon Australia 2020 Plan which shows how Australia can reach 100% renewable stationary energy (electricity supply) within a decade, using technology that is commercially available now. He has also been active in implementing demonstration exercises, including cars running on renewable fuels, a house with energy saving and renewable energy heating systems and water independence with tank systems.

BZE Zero Carbon Australia 2020 Stationary Energy Plan

12pm – Main Lecture Theatre EG02
Presentation

3pm – 4pm – Room TBC
Workshop

Dianne Moy

Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab

Dianne Moy is Project Coordinator and Design Manager of the Victorian Eco-Innovation Laboratory at University of Melbourne. Dianne specialises in Service and Systems Design focusing on sustainable and social innovations. In her current role she helps design studios across several Melbourne universities to think about the complex issues of sustainable futures, introducing students to distributed systems as a framework for design. She regularly gives presentations to government departments and industry bodies and interviews with media on VEILs work to further conversations of the opportunities of sustainable futures. Dianne has a varied background working in media, social trends and community events, she also specialises in designing scenarios and collaborative workshop tools.

Her latest activities include curator of the State of Design exhibition Broadmeadows 2032, and a key speaker in the festivals Sustainable Neighbouhood Forum. Previously she has collaborated with Ezio Manzini, François Jégou and Ana Meroni from Politechnico Milan, and was a guest at the Torino International Design Festival 2008 summer school program. Dianne is contributor to Design for Services book which is due to be published in 2010.

Dianne has completed a research Masters of Design at UTS where she focused on design led social innovation and sharing. Currently she is working alongside other academics and designers to establish service design networks (academic and practice) in Melbourne.

1pm – Main Lecture Theatre EG02
Presentation & Discussion

In the coming years we will see a dramatic change in the way that our cities and suburbs operate. Climate change, increases in population, pressure on existing systems and a desire to ‘do things differently’ will shape new patterns of living and working. The Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab is a design based vision led research project, a partnership between design students and design academics of University of Melbourne, RMIT, Swinburne and Monash Universities. VEIL works with Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Architecture, Industrial Design, Systems and Services and Visual Communication studios to design glimpses of possible, alternative futures. These visions are then used as tools for collaborative conversations on the opportunities of sustainable future; how can we build more resilience within our suburbs and cities, what might life be like? At Live Futures Dianne will present a selection of visions that explore possible urban and suburban futures for Melbourne. VEIL is funded by the Victorian State Governments Sustainability Fund.

Tim Jarvis

Environmental Scientist, Arctic Explorer & Filmmaker

Tim Jarvis combines a love of adventure with a passion for environmental issues – a passion demonstrated through his work as an environmental scientist, public speaker and explorer of many of the planet’s remotest places.

As an environmental scientist with Masters in both Environmental Science and Environmental Law, he has undertaken unsupported expeditions to both polar regions and many of the world’s deserts, mountains and rainforests, including a record-breaking journey to the South Pole. These incredible feats have tested Tim to the limits of his mental and physical endurance and have provided the basis for two best-selling books and an award-winning documentary. They have also been used as inspiring source material for Tim’s many public speaking engagements to both inviduals and organisations, where talks focus on motivation, leadership and environmental change.

Tim’s environmental work is focused on sustainable development in countries including India, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea and the Phillipines.

2pm – Main Lecture Theatre EG02
Topic: Water Water Everywhere
Presentation & Discussion

Drawing on his extensive work in developing countries, Jarvis will discuss the issue of water availability for the 21st century, focusing on the social, technological and scientific challenges and solutions.

3.30pm – Future Kucha Space
Topic: Walk The Talk
Presentation

Walk the talk’ ‘Polar ice caps and climate change – Observations on climate change and the state of our ice caps from an environmental scientist and polar explorer’. Tim will relate first hand, his account of his expeditions to the North and South Poles, with observations concerning man’s impact on these fragile places, and in particular climate change and what it means for both the ice caps and us. Stunning images from some of the remotest parts of Antarctica

Chris Vanstone

Social Innovation Designer at TACSI

Chris, together with Sarah Schulman, blend design, social science and business to prototype new kinds of practice and policy. They work together as InWithFor, an organization they set-up to partner in, with, and for centres of social innovation like TACSI to solve social problems and improve problem-solving.

Chris Vanstone wears the design thinker/doer hat. A graduate of Central Saint Martins he’s worked with organisations like RED and Participle in the UK to address problems like drug use, obesity, ageing, loneliness and youth disengagement.

3pm – Main Lecture Theatre EG02
Presentation & Discussion