Landscape architects will be among the leaders in the battle to keep Queenslanders outside as the world deals with climate change, according to a Professor.
??"We have a great opportunity to improve the public urban spaces in south-east Queensland and look at how we live and exist in this climate,” Queensland University of Technology Professor, Gini Lee, said.??
"When it comes to public spaces, we do need shade and shelter and there's still work to be done to provide adequate levels of this in all areas."
??Professor Lee cited Brisbane's South Bank as an example of a public space that successfully provided various shelter options while still embracing an outdoor lifestyle.??"
The challenge for landscape architects is to provide diverse and remarkable spaces that meet the needs of the wide group of people who come together in public areas," she said.??
"It will be interesting to see how development along other areas of the Brisbane River progresses - the city needs good landscape architecture that is an interface of infrastructure, design, art, ecology, practicality, and sustainability."??
QUT's School of Design will tonight celebrate the 40th anniversary of its first graduating students of landscape architecture in 1969, when the university was known as QIT (Queensland Institute of Technology).??
About 100 people will attend a function at the Hassell Studio in Fortitude Valley, which will include an exhibition of the key projects and people over the past 40 years.
