One of the key themes of Melanie Dodd's 2010 architectural conference, extra/ordinary, is that constraints provide opportunity.
Overseas guests to the conference include Francis Diebedo Kere from Kere Architecture, Jeremy Edmiston from Systemarchitects and Tom Bloxham from Urban Splash.
"Several of the practices represented on the international guest list emerged during the mid-'90s recession, at a time when other established firms were cutting back," says Dodd.
The inventive creation and use of space or place as a solution to social and political problems is another of Dodd's conference themes. Urban Splash is a British company of property developers, not architects, who regenerate decaying industrial sites into modern housing and sustainable communities.
A complementary list of Australian architects speaking at the conference will be released shortly.
