UIA Sustainability Conference 2011 Durban, South Africa 29th-30th November 2011

UIA Sustainability Conference 2011 Durban, South Africa
29th-30th November 2011

Venue: The Local Government Pavilion in the CCR Expo at COP17

South Africa will be hosting the seventeenth Conference Of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 17) and the 7th Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 7) in Durban this November. To coincide with these United Nations events the International Union of Architects (UIA) will hold its yearly conference on sustainability in the built environment. Following the UIA events at COP 15 in Copenhagen and COP 16 in Cancun, the COP 17 Durban 2011 edition will further strive to crystallise a coherent set of climate change strategies for the built environment.

The UIA, the AUA and SAIA are welcoming participation to investigate the potential and responsibilities of the broader built environment professions and practitioners towards addressing the sustainability imperative, and in particular adaptation and mitigation to the effects and impacts of climate change.

The objective of this year’s conference is to produce tangible outputs in the form of a position paper and commitment to better practice, to inform and equip COP negotiators with a thorough and reliable position and capacity statement from built environment sector and for action during 2012 towards COP18 in Seoul.

It is obvious that the largest achievements in terms of sustainability and climate change mitigation and adaptation are to be undertaken at the broad settlement scale, rather than at the individual building level. In order to foster an all- encompassing debate, a workshop with a group of speakers drawn from various disciplines ranging from urban design, transportation, biodiversity, financing, sustainability, to African culture and philosophy will generate a truly multi-disciplinary approach.

Interactive Workshops
and 4 minute inputs

The conference will primarily adopt participatory charrette formats, with speakers introducing their positions, problematic and points of views in several ‘sound bites’ (short 4 minutes speeches) rather than formal presentations, followed by professionally facilitated debates where the audience will be invited to interact with the process and the various points discussed.

online
discussion forum

Any interested person is invited to contribute to the online forum on this site and help define the early contours of a position paper from the built environment sector to inform COP negotiators at COP18 in Seoul, 2012. The forum has been seeded with two opening questions, and inputs will be integrated into the proceedings on Day Two of the conference.

This conference is presented by the South African Institute of Architects (SAIA) under the auspices of the International Union of Architects (UIA) and the Africa Union of Architects (AUA).

Delegates (architectural professionals) to the conference will be entitled to claim the following Continuing Professional Development credits for participation:

SACAP Category One: 2 CPD credits

UIA international CPD credit equivalent: 20 CPD credits


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Corporate: R6 000 excluding VAT - two days

UIA and SAIA members : R3 000 excluding VAT - two days

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Sandy Serraf
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sandy.serraf@alive2green.com
www.uiasustainabilitybydesign.org

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