Speakers

The Wānanga Creative Panel is excited to share our speakers for 2025. We're working on creating an engaging and participatory programme of content focused on high level learning and actionable takeaways. 

INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS

Tim Waterman

Tim Waterman is Professor of Landscape Theory and Inter-Programme Collaboration Director at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. His research addresses imaginaries: moral, political, social, ecological, radical, and utopian. This forms the basis for explorations of power and democracy and their shaping of public space and public life, taste and manners, and foodways in community and civic life and landscape. He is an advisor to the Centre for Landscape Democracy of the Landscape and Spatial Planning Institute at NMBU in Norway, and was recently Chair of the Landscape Research Group and a Non-Executive Director of the digital arts collective Furtherfield. He is the author of The Landscape of Utopia: Writings on Everyday Life, Taste, Democracy, and Design and editor of Landscape Citizenships with Ed Wall and Jane Wolff, Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays with Ed Wall, and the Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food with Joshua Zeunert. His writing has appeared in a variety of journals including the Journal of Architecture, Garden Design Journal, Utopian Studies, and Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Nick Rose

Nick has been the Executive Director of Sustain since its establishment in January 2016. With a background in law and community development, Nick brings nearly two decades of working at the grassroots and institutional level in several Australian states in urban agriculture, food sovereignty and sustainable food systems. He is the editor of "Fair Food: Stories From a Movement Changing The World (2015)" and the co-editor of "Reclaiming The Urban Commons: The Past, Present and Future of Food Growing in Australian Towns And Cities (2018)." Nick was a Partner Investigator in the Australian Research Council Discovery Project, Strengthening Food Systems Governance at the Local Level (2019-2022). Nick is also a lecturer in food systems, food policy and governance and food movements for William Angliss Institute in their Bachelor of Food Studies.

Joshua Zeunert

Dr Joshua Zeunert is a Scientia Associate Professor at UNSW in Sydney in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. Motivated by a deep care for the more-than-human world, his multi-modal practice explores the dynamics of human activities, landscape impacts, and environmental change over time. Joshua has published four award-winning books including Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability (Bloomsbury, 2017), the Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food (2018) and Sydney’s Food Landscapes (2025). He has taught in thirteen academic programs at five universities, encompassing over 50 unique courses. Josh has exhibited and curated, including at the Venice Biennial, at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum and Australian arts icon Bundanon. He has won a range of awards, grants and fellowships in professional practice and academia including the 2024 DDCA Distinguished Creative Researcher Award. His Food | Landscapes Australia web archive has received five international awards and been accessed by users in 110 countries.

LOCAL SPEAKERS (photos and bios coming soon)

• Sandra Hazlehurst - Mayor of Heretaunga Hastings
• Nigel Bickle, Ngāhiwi Tomoana, Graeme Hansen, and Charles Ropitini - Hastings District Council
• Shannon Davis - Lincoln University
• Morgan Maw - Boring Oat Milk
• Peter Wilson - SLR
• Renee Taylor - Salt Aotearoa
• Mel Robinson - DGSE
• Rachel Hill - WSP
• Sarah Flynn and Monica Bainbridge - Boffa Miskell 
• Gary Marshall - Resilio Studio
• Daniel McEwan - Chair NZILA Hawkes Bay/Manawatu/Taranaki branch
• Judge Laurie Newhook