Lunchtime workshops
Delegates attending lunchtime workshops will have an opportunity to delve deeper into certain topics and benefit from a more interactive experience.
Tuesday 15 October
Lunchtime workshop
12.45 - 13.30
The use of water elements and public art as a key tool to build happy and healthy places
João Branco
Global lead architect, OASE, UK
Born in Sao Paulo in 1974 and raised in Lisbon, where he moved in 1977, João Branco studied Architecture and Town Planning at Lisbon Technical University’s Faculty of Architecture (UTL), Portugal, and Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura del Vallés, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, as an Erasmus student. He graduated in 2000.
Working as a town planner and urban designer, he discovered the water features theme as a powerful urban design tool to enhance public spaces. So, from an early stage, he started working on integrating the water element into architecture, landscape design and public art projects.
During the last 20 years, he has conceived, developed and supported hundreds of multi-scale water feature projects worldwide, primarily for retail, hospitality, public plazas, roundabouts and theme parks. Also, having worked in international companies, such as GHESA and now OASE, has been crucial to building a solid worldwide experience, allowing him to speak at several professional events, attend multiple international exhibitions and constantly support global partners in the conception of innovative & memorable fountain experiences.
• Link to LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcgbranco/
• Link to Professional Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/publicshape/
Dan Shaughnessy
Metal sculptor, designer and lighting designer, DSIV Studio, USA
Dan Shaughnessy IV was born in Stavanger, Norway in 1988. After living in Sweden and England, Dan moved to Houston, Texas with his family where he was introduced to stick welding and various welding tools in the metal shop. As a child, he always had an attraction to form, structure and abstraction. Eventually, this fascination became a search for artistic forms and understanding the qualities metal bestows. He would later attend the school of The School of Art Institute of Chicago. Dan’s move to Chicago in 2008 opened new avenues for exploration in the metal sculpture world. In 2011, Dan began a long term professional liaison while working as an apprentice for Chicago sculptors Boyan Marinov, Mike Helbing, and Terry Karpowicz. It was with this experience that propelled his career as a professional sculptor.
Since beginning his career, Dan has worked on close to a dozen large scale figurative public pieces and over 140 public sculpture installations for a variety of mid-west sculptors. Dan continues to collaborate in the Chicago sculptor community and with fellow sculptors affiliated with Chicago Sculpture International. Dan currently lives between New York City and Chicago, creating public and privately commissioned large scale sculptures for clients. Going forward, Dan will be focusing on the balance of sculpture + technology and how to elevate public pieces to landmarks.
Patrick Smith
Global fountain technology, OASE, UK
Patrick’s career has been dedicated to the enhancement of green and blue infrastructure for twenty years. It is a career that began in the horticultural trade, working with scientists to produce award winning growing media to promote thriving plants and led to working closely with Staffordshire University to show plants reduce particulate matter (PM10) in our atmosphere and noise pollution. This peer reviewed research led to several green living walls and roofs being set up in Victoria, London, removing the threat of localised flash flooding (2010, disaster, closing the Underground trains). Cleaner air, a nicer and quieter Victoria environment and an award presented by Mayor of London Boris Johnson in 2012. Patrick’s specialist role as aquatic consultant has enabled him to positively influence many public realms and urban regeneration in the UK with a combination of inclusive water attractions. An epic day out for all. Helping with global studies on Heat Stress and developing sustainable solutions for increased climate comfort. Being smart and helping mother nature to give us all better health, and comfort in our living environments.
The use of water elements and public art as a key tool to build happy and healthy places
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The workshop will combine selected artistic projects of different scales, types, and purposes. In all of them, the water element is crucial in creating huge visual impact and wellbeing sensations, especially when integrated with other artistic disciplines like architecture, landscaping, and sculpture. All attendees will be able to understand the creative and conceptual process behind all the technical aspects. At the end of this session, the audience will be inspired by many ideas about using water elements and public art to beautify health centres and create better places to live and recover.Daniel Shaughnessy will present his artistic work and one of his amazing cultures, Flower Blooms. These flowers are fabricated from 100% marine-grade stainless steel with outdoor-rated lighting systems. The lighting systems have a 50,000-hour life span and can be fully customisable (colour, speed, intensity). Each bloom contains more than 1000 individual petals and can feature mist effects not only on the top but also in the base to cool down the surrounding areas.
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Wednesday 16 October
Lunchtime workshop
12.45 - 13.45
Invitation to be part of a new movement, mindset and method for more human-kind urban lived experiences and futures
Liane Hartley
Director, Mend; Founder, Considerate Urbanism, Mend and Considerate Urbanism, United Kingdom
Liane is a “Considerate Urbanist” and is an urban planner by background and social entrepreneur in practice. She has been a consultant and writer on the broad area of urban sustainability for over twenty years. Her focus is on the social future of cities and how we live in and experience urban space. She writes about the emergence of the social city and “Considerate Urbanism” - moving us from car-based to care-based urbanism. Considerate urbanism is a movement, mindset and method for more considerate urban experiences futures, and behaviours to emerge for people planet.
Liane specialises in building positive social outcomes from the built environment through the businesses and organisations she has created (Mend and Considerate Urbanism) and the women’s leadership organisation she has founded (Urbanistas). She combines her personal interest in the social dynamics of cities and the future of cities, with her professional skills in strategy, policy, collaboration, and project delivery. Liane has a strong academic and professional background in the social impact of the built environment, and is regularly asked to speak, chair, write and participate, and to mentor others.
Natasha Reid
Founder, MATTER . SPACE . SOUL, United Kingdom
Natasha Reid is founder of MATTER SPACE SOUL, a specialist design consultancy and creative lab shaping places for health, wellbeing and social sustainability. Having trained and practiced in architecture, she has focused on the social, psychological and emotional impacts of places over the last decade and often speaks at conferences on forward-thinking approaches to pressing urban issues.
She is a “Healthy Places and Inclusive Design” expert for two London borough review panels, Fellow with the Center for Conscious Design and an Associate with the Quality of Life Foundation. She studied Architecture at Cambridge University and gained a Distinction for her Professional Diploma in Architecture at The Cass. She is an advocate for the power of design to create change that matters, recognised in international publications such as Wallpaper* and Elle Decoration, as a "Groundbreaker" and "Women to Watch".
Invitation to be part of a new movement, mindset and method for more human-kind urban lived experiences and futures
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This workshop will mark the official launch of the Considerate Urbanism network. Considerate Urbanism is a human-kind approach to urbanism that invites us to go beyond the 3D physicality of space, to consider how we experience, feel and connect in urban space. It’s considerate of the sensory, emotional and psychological dimensions of urban space, urban change and urban experience.Considerate Urbanism advocates for development that supports better health, wellbeing, social connection and togetherness. Fostering considerate urbanism is a systemic approach that needs to happen on multiple levels, across multiple disciplines and stakeholders, with a variety of lenses and timescales. It covers a broad range of human and planetary-health focused topics under its three tenets of social justice, economic inclusion and natural resilience.
To enable more considerate urban experiences, futures, and behaviours to emerge for people and planet, we’re building Considerate Urbanism as a movement, mindset and method:
• Movement: Unifying ideas, connecting people and propelling action.
• Mindset: Growing a different mindset and behaviours for decision-making and commissioning.
• Method: Learning, developing and applying the concept of considerate urbanism in practice.
The workshop will provide participants with an introduction to the concept, vision and purpose of Considerate Urbanism. Participants can explore what Considerate Urbanism means to their own work or context, and share any examples of where Considerate Urbanism is already happening, or has potential to flourish. We’ll also share our engagement model, and participants will be invited to share feedback on the different pathways for being part of this movement, with an opportunity to become early signatories to the network.
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