I've been a bit remiss with this website for the past couple of weeks. Amidst the busyness in my last post I mentioned I would create a post on Green finance and the Future of Green Finance event I had been to. I began writing the summary and analysis and realised at about the 2000 word mark that it was becoming a seriously long read! Edit: posted.
I'm in the middle of writing a paper for the European Healthcare Design conference - link here http://www.europeanhealthcaredesign.eu . And because its 3000 - 5000 words all other work has felt like a distraction.
And finally the third reason - I've flown back to Australia to teach at the annual Queensland University of Technology (QUT) design camp this week. Its a fantastic course where we tutor all of the students in first year Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design, Interactive Visual Media Design, Fashion Design and Industrial Design about the design process and design thinking. Completely immersive and by a beautiful lake at Elanda Point, it runs for 8 days with 2 sets of student numbers - and this year is the highest ever with 250 in the first session and 230 in the next (across only 12 tutors). Last years highest student number was 175 and that was tough, so it will be interesting. And fun. And the staff and tutors are an awesome group.
In the meantime I've been enjoying the beautiful Australian scenery:
Noosa Main Beach after sunrise
Noosa Main Beach looking back from the boardwalk
Second Beach, Noosa, at sunset