Date: Thursday 5 September, 2013
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Elisabeth Murdoch Building, Victorian College of the Arts, 234 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
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Speaker bios:
Ralph Green is a Vision Scientist with Therapeutic endorsement and has a Master of Social Science (International Development). He completed his thesis on the subject of Universal Mobility and has worked as Director of Research with Visionary Design Development to develop a Universal Mobility Index.
Dennis Hogan worked in local government building control for nineteen years, following fourteen years experience as a foreman, leading hand, supervisor, draftsman and estimator after completing an apprenticeship in carpentry and joinery. Dennis has worked for the Victorian Building Commission since 2001, and is currently Director of Regulatory Development. Dennis will speak about the objectives of Livable Housing Australia: safer, more comfortable, easier to access homes for everybody, everyday, at all stages of life.
Dr. Carolyn Whitzman is Associate Professor in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne and has an international reputation for her work on the prevention of violence. She was principal investigator of the ‘Travelling Together’ research project, and will share her experiences of partnerships for disability inclusive road development in Papua New Guinea. Carolyn is the lead editor of Building Inclusive Cities: Women’s Safety and the Right to the City, author of Suburb, Slum, Urban Village: Transformations in a Toronto Neighbourhood 1875-2002 and The Handbook of Community Safety, Gender, and Violence Prevention: practical planning tools, and the co-author of Safe Cities: guidelines for planning, design, and management. Current research interests include the policy implications of planning for healthy and equitable cities in a national and international context, planning interventions to increase independent mobility for children, and the development of participatory planning tools with women, children, and people with disabilities.
Refreshments provided/gold coin donations welcome!
