The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University would like to invite you to an afternoon of two talks by distinguished Australian architect Paul Pholeros.

Paul is Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney. He directs his own architectural firm with projects across Australia and recently China. Paul’s work is essentially concerned with creating places for people which engage profoundly with their environment and landscape.

Projects range from residential to community and ecotourism developments, foregrounding sociocultural, environmental and technological sustainability.

In the first of his two talks, Paul will show a recently completed tourism project in South East China.

Together with doctor Paul Torzillo and anthropologist Stephen Rainow, Paul established HealtHabitat in the mid 80s. HealtHabitat aims to improve the health of Indigenous Australians. Over the years, it has made substantial achievements in this area by working with remote Indigenous communities, housing associations, state and federal government agencies. It has been instrumental in influencing national government policy on Indigenous housing, culminating in the National Framework for the Design Construction and Maintenance of Indigenous Housing and the National Indigenous Housing Guide here. Among many others, HealtHabitat is currently managing a significant national project - Fixing Houses for Better Health - see here. In the second of his talks, Paul will discuss the history and the work of HealhHabitat.

There are likely to be many parallels and shared experiences between Paul and pracitioners working across diverse sectors in the UK - from landscape, planning and architecture to local and national government sectors concerned with health and housing policy. We hope that Paul’s talks will prompt broader discussions about such issues for mutual benefit.

Paul will speak between 3 and 6pm on Tuesday 3 July in Room 220, Level 1, Research Beehive, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne [location]. Chris P has a flyer for the talks and a summary of the work of HealtHabitat.

I do hope you can make time to join us. The event is open to all but you must RSVP to Anne.Fry@ncl.ac.uk by June 22 to reserve a place.