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Embracing Change and Innovation

12 September 2024

By OCULUS

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Garth Henderson / AILA

Will Whitfeld, BIM Manager and Senior Associate at OCULUS, is speaking at the 2024 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) Innovation Symposium: Embracing Change on Friday 25 October 2024, in Naarm/Melbourne.

The symposium is focused on creating a robust dialogue about what it means to innovate in the Australian landscape architecture profession. The program features panel discussions on four themes – market, leadership, technology, and design – capturing a cross-section of the profession by including perspectives from small, medium, large, and government organisations.

Will is scheduled to join the ‘Technology: Transforming Projects, Practices and Industry’ panel, to discuss what technologies like building information modelling (BIM), artificial intelligence (AI), and data represent to the landscape architecture profession. The session tackles how landscape architecture is taking advantage of technological innovations by adapting practices and advancing performance of landscape.

Will brings experience leading the application of digital design technology at OCULUS, driving the adoption of new digital tools such as BIM, software automation, geographic information systems (GIS), and parametric design.

The Innovation Symposium is being held in conjunction with the AILA National Landscape Architecture Awards and a one-day event, Respecting Country, both held on Thursday 24 October. For more information please visit the AILA website.

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