Greenfield, Brownfield, Greyfield…. REDFIELD: Positioning Urban Redesign

Positioning urban design in relation to "urban renewal” associated with the TODSEPP opens up questions of the role of urban design its limits and potential, its ethics and basis for advocacy.

Join us as Roderick Simpson will develop and reflect on some themes that came out of the recent workshop that took place in the lead up to the Australian Urban Design Awards 2025.

Roderick Simpson is a Registered Architect, a Registered Urban Designer of the Urban Design Association of NSW, a fellow of the Planning Institute, a corporate member of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects and Recognised Urban Designer (UDG UK).

Prior to being appointed as the inaugural Environment Commissioner of the Greater Sydney Commission, he was director of the Urban Design and Urbanism programs at the University of Sydney until 2016. His work has focused on sustainability since the early 1990s and more recently resilience. His current focus is to shift practice from planning’s narrow focus on transport and productivity to give equal importance to ‘blue and green infrastructure’ as a starting point for planning and the need to recognise the importance of urban design at all scales and stages of urban development.