Western Sydney workshop, Urban systems transformation

On 2 November 2018 Future Earth Australia held the first in a series of national workshops for its project ‘Urban systems transformation: sustainable cities’. The Western Sydney workshop was hosted by Western Sydney University and included stakeholders from territory government, city councils, local businesses, NGOs, and research groups.

The event included presentations by Associate Professor Juan Salazar from the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University and Professor Michelle Leishmann from the Centre for Smart Green Cities at Macquarie University. There was also a discussion around participants' visions for a sustainable future in Western Sydney. Using an online poll, we generated a word cloud of answers to a number of questions. For instance, when asked ‘What is your vision for a sustainable future in Western Sydney?’, the words sustainable, cool, regenerative, and connected were the most commonly answered.

To read more about the event in Western Sydney, read our outcome paper.