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NZILA conference and awards - that's a wrap
Posted 08 11 2019
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The NZILA Firth Conference has wrapped up for another year with overwhelmingly positive feedback from delegates.
The event ended in Christchurch last night with the ceremony naming the winners in the Resene New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards 2019.
NZILA President Brad Coombs believes the theme of the conference, Disruption, in conjunction with the calibre of the international and local speakers “represents a step change in the quality of our conference events. The profession and the Institute should be very proud.”
Boffa Miskell’s Emma Taylor found the international speakers thought provoking. “ It was a great few days of professional development, inspiration, socialising, finishing with a great awards evening celebrating and profiling the profession.”
NZILA Executive Committee member Megan Ash says the conference has provided a great opportunity to hear from both international and national speakers and hear about all the amazing things that people are working on in different sectors.
“It’s great to see that we are all striving for the same thing but interesting to see all the different pathways LAs are perusing through their design interventions to get there,” she says.
Mark Fletcher from Studio Pacific says this week’s conference followed on from the success of 2018’s City Tāone.
“Ngāi Tūāhuriri/Ngāi Tahu have made us feel very welcome and it has been great to hear about the many collaborative efforts that have contributed to Christchurch getting its mojo back. Well done to all those involved and to the NZILA Christchurch organising committee who have made it such a great event. Can’t wait for next year’s,” he says.
The good news is the next conference is just over six months away with planning well underway for the Tauranga event in May 2020.
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