Workshop Session 2.2: Creative thinking for future proofing community leisure facilities
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Community Sport & Leisure Facilities | In partnership with IAKS | Sponsored by Otium
| Friday, June 28, 2024 |
| 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
Speaker
Belinda Goh
Senior Principal | Architect
POPULOUS
Design to drive programming opportunities for community impact
1:35 PM - 1:45 PMBiography
With over two decades of experience designing buildings and places that draw people together, Belinda deeply understands the pillars of a successful and future-proof venue.
Her global portfolio includes Accor Stadium, Emirates Stadium, multiple London 2012 Olympic venues, ICC Sydney, Wiigulga Community Sports Complex and the recently-opened Home of the Matildas. Belinda is particularly interested in creating quality architecture that is responsive to the human experience. Her extensive experience enables her to identify opportunities in a project's design and programming to optimise its impact on the local community and context. A member of the UIA (Union of International Architects) Architecture for All Region IV, RAIA NSW Chapter Built Environment Committee and Gender Equity Team, Belinda also leads Populous' WISE Design, ensuring a wholistic, inclusive, sensitive and equitable design approach that provides a comparative experience for all is deeply embedded into each of Populous' projects.
Darryl Condon
Managing Partner
HCMA Architecture + Design (Canada) (IAKS Member)
Measuring and maximizing positive social impact Municipal sport and recreation facilities play a vital role in the development of safe, healthy, and just communities, yet it’s often proved challenging to quantify their true positive social impact over time. This session explores an emerging framework and methodology for social impact, developed to understand and increase a project’s potential to do lasting good in the communities they serve. This social impact framework will equip design teams and decision makers with practical tools to tackle some of the most wicked problems of our time: the climate crisis, poverty and inequality, mass migration, and growing mental and physical health epidemics
1:45 PM - 1:55 PMBiography
Darryl Condon is interested in design that acts as a catalyst for positive social change. As Managing Principal at Vancouver-based hcma architecture + design, he has created engaging public spaces across Canada for more than 30 years.
Darryl’s work has been recognized internationally for its innovation and design excellence. He has lectured extensively and most recently, these talks have focused on designing for social impact, inclusion and accessibility, and the future of community recreation.
Darryl is a registered Architect, and a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. He is a Vice President of the International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities (IAKS), a Past-President of the Architectural Institute of British Columbia and a former Adjunct Professor at UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.
Pete Spence
Associate
Carabiner
Designing efficient, adaptable spaces for maximised use: As Architects of contemporary sports, recreation and community centres, Carabiner share creative thinking for designing facilities that encourage year-round participation and commercial viability.
1:55 PM - 2:05 PMBiography
Architect Pete Spence leads Carabiner’s design team for many Sport and Recreation projects. Pete has extensive experience in the design and delivery of world-class facilities for Community participation and High-Performance athletes. His recent projects including the Sam Kerr Football Centre (2023), and the East Fremantle Oval Precinct Redevelopment (2024) offer creative design solutions to encourage engagement through imaginative and strategic use of space and co-location.
Chair
Jason Leslie
Director
Otium
