Two days at the Antarctic Festival
Two days at the Antarctic Festival in Hobart Photos taken during the 2018 Antarctic Festival, to which the Antarctic Cities team participated with a small exhibition dedicated to the project highlights.
Hobart’s codesign workshop
A codesign workshop for the Antarctic Cities game Here are some of the paper prototypes produced during a codesign workshop in Hobart, on the 6th of August 2018. Nine students from University of Tasmania participated in a three-hour prototyping session, using a toolkit of buttons, features and interface elements to rethink the Antarctic Cities game.
Hobart’s sustainability profile
Hobart’s sustainability profile Developing the profile To develop the sustainability profile below, the Hobart Assessment Panel met initially in a half-day workshop in 2017 to conduct the Hobart assessment. It was done initially as a Rapid Assessment by 17 experts in Hobart, part of the larger Critical Reference Group, each with expertise across the four […]
Circles of Sustainability Methodology
Circles of Sustainability Methodology The Circles of Sustainability approach offers an integrated method for practically responding to complex issues of sustainability, resilience, adaptation, and liveability. It is being used to guide Hobart through the difficult process of responding to complex or seemingly intractable problems and challenges associated with building long-term sustainability.[1] The approach builds upon the […]
Punta Arenas – Short Profile
Punta Arenas Punta Arenas (population 125,000) was founded in 1848 as a penal colony by the Chilean government, and later served as destination for the settlement of European immigrants. Until the construction of the Panama Canal in 1910, its port was key in the commercial route linking the Atlantic and the Pacific. Punta Arenas was […]
Cape Town – Short profile
Cape TownCape Town (population 3.75 million) has a completely different history to the other four gateway cities. Founded in 1652 as a key site in the commercial route between Europe and the East Indies, Cape Town is an order of magnitude bigger than the next largest gateway and is one of the most multicultural cities […]
Hobart – Short profile
HobartHobart (population 225,000) was founded in 1803, also as a penal colony. It’s Australia’s second-oldest capital city after Sydney.It has the most complete infrastructure of any gateway city, hosting the largest critical mass of Antarctic scientists and scholars anywhere in the world with world-class research and education institutions. This is the result of a decision […]
Christchurch – short profile
Christchurch Christchurch is New Zealand’s second largest city, with an estimated population of over 380,000 people. It is located on the Canterbury Plains, on the eastern coast of New Zealand’s South Island. The first European settlers arrived to the region in the 1850s, but Te Whenua Ō Te Potiki Tautahi (which is the full and original […]