Brisbane Designscape

Brooke Williams is an industry thought leader who, through her years of experience, has co founded the not-for-profit organisation U.R{BNE} Collective, delivered internationally acclaimed activations and championed the placemaking movement in Queensland. Brooke’s understanding of complex urban issues is founded on 15 years of experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams for both private...

Alisa is a designer, collaborator and impact-driven leader. Alisa has worked as a commercial interior designer for 15 years and has a particular passion for the design of environmentally sustainable places and products. She is the director of Re:New Design, an interior and product design studio and certified social enterprise with the mission to use design projects to create solutions to the envir...

Neil had a long and successful career as an architect, urban planner and project manager until he hit mid-life and decided he needed a change. Rather than buy a red Porsche, he and his partner sold their family home and established the first vinyl record pressing plant in Brisbane in 35 years. He is now the proud co-owner of Suitcase Records. Having pressed his first record a year ago, he has now...

Rachel is a coach, entrepreneur, and artist. She created the proprietary Map process that allows creative entrepreneurs to get unstuck and achieve their wildest dreams. Rachel has been Mapping for over two decades. Her art+coaching model was advanced during the decade she founded Young New Yorkers (YNY)—the first arts-based Alternative to Incarceration program in NYC. She assisted over 1,400 young...

Amanda Cole is recognised as an expert in strategy and enhancing performance for emerging medium sized business. She has facilitated strategic growth for over 100 businesses and Chaired the Advisory Boards of 8 private companies from start-up to $500m in turnover. She has founded two companies, sold two and been an investor in an e-commerce business, a catering company and supports the operations...

Chris Meredith is a thought leader and podcaster in creativity, communication and innovation with a career that spans brand marketing, strategy and innovation roles on the client and agency side in the UK and Australia. Chris has helped to transform the fortunes of companies in fields as diverse as financial services, travel, packaged goods, B2B, drinks, telecoms, pharmaceuticals and luxury goods....

As an urbanist grappling with a desire for greater artistic expression and place-making, I've blended my studies in visual arts, urban planning, and urban design into a rich and diverse educational background. Drawing upon three decades of experience in master planning and urban design, encompassing projects across various cities, continents, time zones, cultures, and climates, my journey has...

Jason Bird founded Luxxbox in 2006, designing and manufacturing furniture, lighting and objects for commercial and domestic use. With a long and varied career, accolades and exhibitions in Los Angeles, London, New York, Tokyo and Australia, Jason’s skills are channelled into Luxxbox's unique aesthetic version of urban design. His career launched in architectural lighting in Australia before re...

Rebecca founded Maytree Studios to put architecture in reach of more people. That means she’s an idealist at heart, but she works with pragmatism to bring this vision to life. She does more with fewer resources, and believes in designing homes that are sustainable, clever and beautifully tailored to each client. She believes good design is about the process, not just the outcome. Using everyday la...

Mark has worked with thousands of students, teachers, health professionals, and company directors keen to understand how their brain works, how to perform optimally and maintain a healthy brain. He runs programs on the neuroscience of learning, the neuroscience of emotions, how our brains create our reality, and the impact of modern technologies on our brains. Mark has an extensive academic backgr...

Cheryl Desha is Theme Leader for the Cities Research Institute's 'Digital Earth and Resilient Infrastructure' research agenda (12 academics, 13 PhD candidates), and a professor within the School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University.  She co-leads Griffith University's Disaster Management Network and directs the Disaster and Resilience Management Facility (DRMF)...

Let's connect to one of Black Pudding's band member, Allan Rielly. He has professional experiences at various offices including Project Services, Bligh Robinson, Darryl Jackson and the last 20 years at Architecus in Brisbane. ​Black Pudding have been playing in bars around West End and the Valley for the last 9 years and have perfected their own brand of loose fitting rock and roll. Throug...

Dr. Alec Hamilton is an experienced psychologist with over three decades of experience in private practice and educational settings. He's not just a psychologist but a Certified LEGO® Serious Play®(LSP) facilitator, adding a whole new dimension to his therapeutic toolkit. Alec has also served as an educational psychology, psychology, and counselling educator at universities in Australia and Ca...

Gavin Blake has been drawing conversations, systems, and stories for over twenty years. His work has been seen at over 70 TEDx Events around Australia and abroad. Visual scribing inspires and entertains audiences and leaves them with useful visuals that enable them to share and remember the event content at a glance more effectively than video or text transcripts.  Gavin learned visual scribing fr...

Amanda Hayman grew up in Logan City, Queensland. She is a proud Aboriginal woman and have cultural connections to Kalkadoon and Wakka Wakka Country. She's now live and work in Brisbane. She have always loved art and have a Bachelor of Arts with a contemporary art major. Amanda have over 20 years experience in the arts and creative industries. Amanda and her partner Troy have been in business t...

Peter Richards is a South-East Queensland based architect, urban designer, teacher, and a principal of Archipelago Architects. Peter has utilised drawing to drive his professional practice and teaching for 40 years. He is the author and publisher of the book DesignThinkingDrawing (2018), which is an advocacy for and demonstration of how drawing can inform design processes. He has conducted more th...

Peter Richards is a South-East Queensland based architect, urban designer, teacher, and a principal of Archipelago Architects. Peter has utilised drawing to drive his professional practice and teaching for 40 years. He is the author and publisher of the book DesignThinkingDrawing (2018), which is an advocacy for and demonstration of how drawing can inform design processes. He has conducted more th...

Neal Foard spent 25 years in advertising and marketing, creating and selling award-winning campaigns for global power brands like Budweiser, Lexus and Sony. For his work on Toyota, Neal ranked among the top ten most awarded creative directors in the world in 2002. As the author of an innovative coaching series, Neal was named Worldwide Director of Creative Learning for global ad agency Saatchi &am...

We invite architects, interior designers, major stakeholders and decision makers for a day of workshop activities and talks by an eclectic group of speakers, including architects and designers (speaking about everything except their work), artists, storytellers, and neuroscientists to talk about their take on reconnect. Curated by Paul Fairweather, Speaker, Writer, Artist, Podcaster, re-imagined a...