SEDA Conference / Day 3
Day 3: AGM / Facing the Future
Topics: A call to action and discussion on how best to we can all do something to be involved in making changes: finding a new sustainable way of thinking and working; groups with which we can all engage; and upcoming SEDA events and activities members can engage with, like the launch of the report from the SEDA Land Conversations. What can everyone commit to doing now?
chair
Catherine Cosgrove
current SEDA Chair, AS:L Architects
SPEAKERS
Dr. Lukas Hardt
The Wellbeing Scotland Alliance Scotland
Lukas Hardt is a Core Team Member at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance Scotland. The charity aims to deliver social justice on a healthy planet by realising a wellbeing economy. WEAll partners with organisations across Scotland through the flagship ‘allies’ programme to deliver meaningful, sustained change in line with the five ‘WEAll needs’ of fairness, dignity, participation, connection and nature. Lukas has recently completed his PhD, in which he investigated how structural change can contribute to the creation of a sustainable post-growth economy. He is a coordination group member for the Post-growth Economics Network, a Europe-wide network of researchers working in the field of post-growth and ecological macroeconomics. Lukas holds an MSc degree in Ecological Economics from the University of Leeds and a BSc (Hons) in Sustainable Development from the University of St Andrews. In the past he has been involved in setting up several projects working to create more sustainable communities, such as the Transition University of St Andrews initiative. Lukas is working with WEAll Scotland because he is passionate about putting new economic models into practice by building a community for systems change.
Professor Sandy Halliday, CEng MCIBSE FWES Hon FRIAS Hon RIBA
SEDA / Gaia Research
Sandy is a Director of Gaia Group Ltd. She is a chartered engineer and highly respected thought leader, author and communicator with extensive experience of inter-disciplinary working, acknowledged by Honorary Fellowships of the RIBA and RIAS. She has researched built environment issues and provided sustainability advice to the private, public and third sector since 1986. Her research portfolio embraces the circular economy, building physics, solar air conditioning, lighting and daylighting, innovative ventilation systems, energy systems, affordable low allergy housing, cost, community engagement, indoor air quality for people with dementia, low impact materials, dynamic insulation, animal architecture, and school design, urban ecology and the history of sustainable development ideas. She has undertaken extensive post occupancy evaluation of built projects and her experience informs her writing, teaching and capacity building. The latter involves assisting design and procurement of best value, healthy, resource efficient buildings. As Professor of Engineering Design for Sustainable Development she developed her interdisciplinary programme in Sustainable Design for built environment professionals (2000 – 2003) into a course for students. This became the highly acclaimed Sustainable Construction Second Edition published in 2018. She authored the RIAS Environmental Statement and conceived the Accreditation Scheme in Sustainable Design. A past Chair of the Scottish Ecological Design Association, she organises an annual lecture on eco-pioneers in memory of its founder, her late husband Howard Liddell, author of Eco-minimalism – the Antidote to Ecobling. She contributes to numerous Universities and professional forums and teaches on the Energy & Environment Programme at the University of Oslo International Summer School.