PRESENTERS

Key Talks

Mike Hewson Artist
Natalia Krysiak Architect and founder of Cities for Play
Louise Pearson Studio Director Aspect Studios
Sanné Mestrom Artist and academic, USYD
David Eager Professor of Risk Management and Injury Prevention, UTS

Panel 1. The Potency of Play

Claire Edwards Children’s play researcher, advocate and consultant for Play Wales
Quentin Stevens Associate Professor of Urban Design, RMIT, author of Loose Space
Owen Cafe Principal Landscape Architect, Blaklash
Convened by Nadia Odlum

Panel 2. Risk and Rewards: Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Search for the Playful City

Barbara Schaffer The Government Architect, GANSW
Agatha Gothe-Snape Artist
Anne Loxley Executive Director of Arts and Cultural Exchange (ACE), Western Sydney.
Convened by Sanné Mestrom 

Workshops

David Eager
Gregor Mews Academic in Urban Design and Town Planning at USC, author of Transforming Public Space Through Play

Participant Respondents

Lleah Smith Artist (Au)
Mika Young, youth voice (Au)
Gabriela Burkhalter Founder of The Play Ground Project (Germany)
Tim Gill Independent scholar and global advocate for children’s play and mobility (UK)
Penny Wilson, Assemble (UK)
Sudeshna Chatterjee Program Director - Sustainable Cities And Transport (India)
Melanie Kress Curator for Public Art Fund (NYC)
Indigo Willing Academic at UQ and incoming Research Fellow with the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC), USYD.