Rockhampton is a major urban centre in Queensland and the Rockhampton Regional Council seeks to advance the city’s image as a desirable place to live, work and play into a resilient future by capitalising on its unique regional natural assets and economic opportunities.

The Queensland Plan outlines how ‘environmental changes may potentially impact towns and cities, infrastructure, water supply, primary industry, health and well-being, and emergency responses to natural disasters’. With flood protection levees on the drawing board in several Queensland communities, it is timely to investigate how adaptive solutions to dynamic issues in the natural and built environment may be created using interdisciplinary design thinking.

The QUT Centre for SubTropical Design conducted a design-led transdisciplinary collaborative workshop on 30-31 October 2014 to develop some initial ideas of how innovation in research and practice can be applied to the complex problem of resilient future-focussed urban renewal in Rockhampton’s flood prone suburbs and CBD. We look forward to further collaborative work in the future.

This video is a record of the process with external partners at QUT Design Charrette on 30-31 Oct 2014.
Creator(s): Dr Gillian Lawson
Creative Contributor(s): Assoc Prof Rosie Kennedy, Mellini Sloan