Webinars and Online Workshops

View the NENA Housing Week program here

How can we ensure affordable, safe and sustainable housing for everyone in Australia?

Join us for a week of discussions about housing and human settlements, hosted by the New Economy Network Australia (NENA) and Co-Housing Australia.

KEY DATES

** Monday 7th to Friday 11th June 2021

** Lunchtimes (12noon to 1.30pm AEST)

** Evenings (6pm to 7.30pm)

CO-HOSTED BY CO-HOUSING AUSTRALIA

PROGRAM AVAILABLE HERE

ABOUT NENA HOUSING WEEK 2021

Join us for NENA's 2021 Housing Week, from 7-11 June. Hear from practitioners and researchers, from dozens of organisations, who are coming together to discuss the social justice and environmental sustainability issues of housing and human settlements in Australia.

NENA Housing Week will feature lunchtime and evening ONLINE seminars (Mon 7th to Thurs 10th), which will culminate in an online round table discussion (Friday 11th June) discussing the availability, affordability, design and sustainability of Australia's housing and human settlements.

One of the goals of the Housing Roundtable discussion will be to identify key actions to include in NENA's Civil Society Strategy for a Wellbeing Economy.

TOPICS INCLUDE:

* An overview of the housing crisis in Australia and its social justice implications

* An overview of the impact of housing and human settlements on Australia's ecosystems, biodiversity and bioregional health

* A deeper dive into the housing crisis – the foundations of Australian property law, capitalism, colonisation and notions of future value

* Success and failure - responding to Indigenous housing needs, rising homelessness, crisis accommodation, transition housing

* Caring for our most vulnerable – aged care, families, women, people with disabilities - across Indigenous and non-indigenous communities

* Positive responses - Indigenous peoples creating their own housing solutions, community housing, tiny/micro housing, co-living

* Sustainable responses - understanding the impacts of human settlements on the living world; rethinking urban, regional and rural housing developments, ecovillages and sustainable housing

* Innovative financing and investment for housing and human settlements in Australia

SPEAKER DETAILS AVAILABLE SOON

MORE INFORMATION

Please email: nena@neweconomy.org.au

Join NENA's UBI Hub for a discussion about implementing a basic income plan in Australia

WEBINAR OVERVIEW

The webinar will involve three short presentations followed by a Q&A session

Following the long period of disruption caused by the pandemic, the idea of a regenerative economy means different things to different people. While some look for a return to “normal", or business as usual, this panel is concerned with how Basic Income may form one of the fundamentals of an economy that is regenerative in a larger ecological sense.

How can basic income help to transform the future of work and alter the way we do business?

How have public attitudes to Basic Income changed during the past 18 months, especially since the Biden administration is bringing a very different sense of priorities to economic policy in the US?

What are the key policy challenges we face in trying to implement a basic income plan in Australia?

SPEAKER BIOS

Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall is an Emeritus Professor with the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University. She has a diverse track record as a writer and commentator on the history and politics of cultural change. She writes regularly for Inside Story.

Josh McGee

Josh McGee is the founder and convenor of Basic Income Australia. The group has been running for four years and hosts monthly Basic Income discussion and action meetings.

He is currently studying a double degree of Robotics Engineering and Computer Science and has an interest in using automation to meet people's needs.

Loriana Luccioni

Loriana Luccioni is a PhD student at The University of Queensland. She is close to completing her dissertation on the cultural feasibility for the implementation of a Universal Basic Income in Australia. This study findings and conclusions will be the topic of her presentation. She completed degrees in Psychology, Sociology, and a Master in European and Comparative Social Policy at the LSE, where her dissertation on Discourse and the construction of Human Needs in Social Policies, was awarded the 2013 Titmuss Prize. Following a brief collaboration as independent researcher with the Policy Innovation Hub at Griffith University, she has been involved in UBI activism and advocacy in Australia since 2017.

Join the Cities & Urban Communities Hub for two presentations followed by a Q&A session

Presentation 1 - Experimentation to accelerate decarbonisation

Experimentation through urban living labs brings together academic, government, civil society and private sector actors to trial alternative city futures, transition governance approaches and new modes of sustainable urban development.

Net Zero Precincts is a 4-year ARC Linkage project that is leveraging Monash University's Clayton Campus and the Monash Technology Precinct as a living lab to undertake experiments in net zero energy, mobility and the built environment to accelerate precinct-scale decarbonisation.

In this presentation Dr Darren Sharp will provide an overview of the Net Zero Precincts project, and discuss some emerging opportunities and challenges of net zero transformation at precinct scale.

See Net-Zero Precincts presentation slides here

Speaker Bio

Dr Darren Sharp is a Research Fellow at Monash Sustainable Development Institute where he is Research Coordinator of the ARC Linkage project Net Zero Precincts: an interdisciplinary approach to decarbonising cities. Darren is a sustainability transitions researcher interested in urban experimentation, living labs, multi-stakeholder governance, grassroots innovations, and the sharing economy. His research speaks to the possibilities of social learning, institutional arrangements, community agency, and new urban imaginaries to drive the transformation of cities towards sustainability.

Presentation 2 - The example of Circular Economy Villages

Circular Economy Villages (CEVs) seek to illustrate how a zero waste and zero carbon precinct could be designed for new developments in rural areas, aiming to move beyond zero and have a net positive impact on the land.

Each village is being planned to house a diverse community of up to 200 people, integrating affordable co-working and co-living spaces with water and energy micro-grids and a regenerative agricultural system. A network of CEVs would strive towards self-sufficiency by collaborating and localising the economy within a bioregion.

Steven Liaros' presentation will outline this development model and provide the current implementation status.

See Circular Economy Villages presentation slides here

Speaker Bio

Steven Liaros is a strategic town planner and author of ‘Rethinking the City’. He is interested in how the internet and other new technologies, together with circular economy and sharing economy business models, are reshaping cities. Steven has qualifications in Civil Engineering, Town Planning and Environmental Law.

Regen Melbourne invites NENA members to join a roundtable discussion about the localisation of Doughnut Economics to Melbourne

Hosted by Michelle Maloney (NENA) & Kaj Lofgren (Regen Melbourne)

Background

Regen Melbourne is a network of of organisations and individuals exploring new economic models for a post-COVID Melbourne. Their first project considers how the Doughnut Economics model can be applied to the city’s local context.

Regen Melbourne has conducted a series of interviews with leaders across Melbourne, as well as community workshops across five key themes, defined by the Doughnut Economics model:

1. A Healthy Melbourne
2. A Connected Melbourne
3. An Enabled Melbourne
4. An Empowered Melbourne
5. An Ecologically Healthy Melbourne

Roundtable

During this virtual roundtable, the hosts will present on the Doughnut Economics framework and the preliminary insights from the community research.

Following this will be an opportunity for discussion around the model and Regen Melbourne’s research, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for augmenting the model for Melbourne’s unique context.

This discussion will inform the final insights report to be presented to City of Melbourne and Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation at the end of April.

Join NENA's Energy Hub, for an exciting discussion about Australia’s first large scale Solar Garden.

For more information about this webinar, visit the Facebook Event Page.

For more information about this webinar, visit the facebook event page

Join us for a discussion about the 'invisible commons', created by the processes of people working together.

Host:

• Dr. Jose Ramos

Speakers:

• Dr. Julian Waters-Lynch
• Laurel Freeland
• Dr. Bernhard Resch