Keynote speakers

Landscapes and ecologies of urban and planning history

Kevin Prime (Ngati Hine)

Kevin Prime lives in Motatau, Northland and was initially appointed as an Environment Commissioner from 1 April 2003 (5 year term), re-appointed on 30 June 2008 for a term, then reappointed in August 2013 for a further term. Kevin Prime has been a beef farmer and forester for the last 50 years and in the last 10 years has taken up bee keeping as a hobby. During the last 30 years or so he has been very much involved in community matters with marae committees, Māori committees, Rūnanga, Māori development, school boards of trustees, charitable trusts, health trusts, community trusts, forest trusts, forest companies, health companies, health boards and conservation boards at local, regional and national levels, including being a life member of the Ngā Whenua Rāhui Komiti. He has also served on ministerial advisory groups pertaining to Health, Forestry, Conservation, Māori Affairs, Environment, Crown Research Institutes, Lands and Sport.

Bill Gammage

Bill Gammage is an adjunct professor in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University (ANU), researching Aboriginal land management. He grew up in Wagga, and was an ANU undergraduate and postgraduate before teaching history at the Universities of Papua New Guinea and Adelaide. He wrote The Broken Years on Australian soldiers in the Great War (1974), Narrandera Shire (1986), The Sky Travellers on the 1938–39 Hagen-Sepik Patrol in New Guinea (1998), and The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia (2011). He served the National Museum of Australia for three years as Council member, Deputy Chair and Acting Chair. He was made a Freeman of the Shire of Narrandera in 1987, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences in 1991, and an AM in 2005.

Dr Jacky Bowring

Dr Jacky Bowring is Professor and Head of the School of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, Christchurch. Jacky’s key areas of interest are design critique, design theory and landscapes of memory, and she is the author of A Field Guide to Melancholy (2008) and editor of Landscape Review.

Jacky is a registered landscape architect, with success in a number of national and international design competitions: finalist in the Pentagon Memorial Competition (with Room 4.1.3); two Cavalier Bremworth Awards; three times winner AAA Panasonic Urban Gaze competition; winner of the Holy Trinity Memorial Garden (Auckland); member of the winning team, NZ Wood, for the 48 Hour Design Challenge for the Christchurch post-quake rebuild. Jacky has an ongoing interest in the rebuild of Christchurch, with consulting roles relating to the development of a process for the Canterbury Earthquake Memorial, and the treatment of the sensitive sites where major loss of life occurred.