Join us for Parlour LAB 18. The first session of 2023 looks at relationships between landscape and health, wellbeing and identity with Jacky Bowring and Francis Nona.

What are the relationships between landscapes and wellbeing? How do aesthetics and emotion impact the cultural and environmental management of places and landscapes? If we heal landscapes, can we, by extension, heal people? What of the impact of climate change and disasters in relation to identity and belonging?
Join us for an insightful conversation about the landscape, healing and identity with two exceptional researchers in the field, in a conversation convened by Kali Marnane and Rebecca McLaughlan.
Francis Nona is Indigenous Pathways Leader in the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland. He was involved in development of the UQ Campuses on Countries Design Framework and in the UQ Reconciliation Garden.
Jacky Bowring is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, New Zealand. Her research, design work and criticism explores how ideas of place, memory and emotion enrich our relationship with our landscapes.
If you are interested to read more about Jacky’s research in advance of this session, check out the following recommendations:
- ‘An affective absence: Memorialising loss at Pike River Mine, New Zealand,’Emotion, Space and Society, 41 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100845
- Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge (2017) https://www.routledge.com/Melancholy-and-the-Landscape-Locating-Sadness-Memory-and-Reflection-in/Bowring/p/book/9781138588769#
- ‘Looking after things’: Caring for sites of trauma in post-trauma in post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand. In C. Bates, R. Imrie, & K. Kullman (Eds.) Care and design: Bodies, buildings, cities (pp. 116-137). West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons. (2017) https://www.wiley.com/en-ie/Care+and+Design:+Bodies,+Buildings,+Cities-p-9781119053491
When & Where
Online, Friday 24 March
12.30–1.30 AEDT (NSW, VIC, ACT, TAS)
12–1pm ACDT (SA)
11.30am–12.30pm AEST (QLD)
11am–12pm ACST (NT)
9.30–10.30am AWST (WA)
2.30–3.30pm NZ
CPD
1 formal point on completion of the CPD questions – these will be emailed following booking.
Once completed, you will receive an email from Google forms with your responses. Please keep this – it provides the evidence of attendance and completion. Please note, separate CPD certificates will not be issued. If you can’t find the email, remember to check your spam folder. See here for the overall learning objectives for the series.
Bookings
- Parlour Collective – $11 (individuals and practices that have joined the Parlour Collective)
- General – $25
- Concession – $5.50 (anyone who needs it – students, those not working, part-timers etc)
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