SEQ workshop, Urban systems transformation

On 28 November 2018 Future Earth Australia held the fourth in a series of national workshops for its project ‘Urban systems transformation: sustainable cities’. The South East Queensland workshop was hosted by Griffith University’s Cities Research Institute and included stakeholders from territory government, city councils, local businesses, NGOs, and research groups.

The event included presentations by Professor Paul Burton, Director, Cities Research Institute, Griffith University, Jennifer Hutcheon, Acting Director, Cities Transformation Ms Taskforce, Queensland Treasury, and Adjunct Professor Jeff Humphreys, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland. There was also a discussion around participants' visions for a sustainable future in SEQ. 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 SEQ?’, the words sustainable, cool, regenerative, and connected were the most commonly answered.

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