Can't See the Trees for the wood.

This forum will look at the relationship between the beautiful Australian timbers we want to clad our houses with and the equally beautiful forests where they may have grown, drilling into the conflict between timber use and timber sources and the Architect/Specifiers involvement and potential engagement in finding a better path.

Depending on the source Australian timber can either be as good as it gets for a building material or it can be pushing the existential crises of catastrophic climate change and biodiversity loss even further along the path of no return. The issue of sustainable timber for use in the Building and Design industries is a thorny one and a discussion about it is difficult and nuanced but it must be had. The Architectural community like every other industry is flooded with green washing and misinformation making it very hard to see the wood for the trees and to find /specify genuinely sustainable timber or alternatives

Speaking will be

Sue Mckinnon [ Conservationist and President of Kinglake Friends of the Forest] :  Dr. Chris Taylor [-Research Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University]:James-Felton Taylor [ Australian Sustainable Timbers] Paul Haar - Architect and Instigator of Ceres Fairwood, Darcy Vermont urban salvage timber miller "Julia's onsite timber milling" 

Moderator Cat Macleod [Designer/Director Bellemo & Cat Architects ,AAD working group and Extinction Rebellion activist] 

This will be a hybrid in person and online event,

Here is a link to the online event https://architecture.zoom.us/j/87602433334