Simone Woodland
Founder; Co-founder
Tākaka Cohousing; CIRCLE Living
Simone is an architect, urban designer and entrepreneur who is passionate about creating healthy homes that tread lightly on the earth. She is an Edmund Hillary Fellow (EHF) and has established several social businesses in the arts, architecture and community building.
Simone currently leads CIRCLE, a new platform that utilises place-based capital to build alternative housing developments across Aotearoa, designing communities around connection, belonging, and collective wellbeing.
SESSIONS
Day 2
2:30
Panel: How can the future of affordable housing achieve financial and environmental sustainability through innovative design and construction
What are the most exciting design and construction trends that we should be looking towards?
What can CHPs/Councils/Developers/Trusts/Architects do with minimal budget and in the short term to make their existing stock more sustainable?
What are the minimum sustainability requirements that new developments or retrofits should incorporate and how do we ensure this happens?
Moderator: Simone Woodland, Founder, Tākaka Cohousing; Co-founder, CIRCLE Living
Guy Shaw, Interim Chair, Board Member, Te Tōpūtanga o te Whare Korou ki Aotearoa, Passive House Institute NZ
Dr Chris Litten, General Manager Research, BRANZ
Josh Milne, Design and Innovation Leader, Home NZ