Following on from last year’s Water Sensitive Urban Design session with Kim Markwell and due to popular demand, Sally Boer will be taking the reigns to offer this overview course again for AILA members and allied professionals.
This LATITUTE session will provide an overview of water sensitive urban design (WSUD) in Australia. Delivered by Sally Boer, an expert in WSUD who has authored several Queensland and national-level guidelines, the session will equip landscape architects, urban designers, and similar professionals with useful knowledge and understanding they can apply in their day-to-day professional lives to achieve better outcomes in their projects.
Focus of the Session
This online session will focus on the basics of WSUD including what it is, why it’s important, the important roles for landscape architects and urban designers, and the use of different WSUD practices. Case studies will demonstrate how WSUD is undertaken in the real world including how different WSUD practices can be used to achieve different design outcomes in different landscape scenarios.
Objectives of the Workshop
- Provide participants with a real world understanding of WSUD including its benefits and common practices (e.g., bioretention systems, wetlands, passive irrigation).
- Provide participants with knowledge they can apply in their day-to-day professional lives including how to apply different WSUD practices and influence design to achieve good integrated outcomes in their projects.