Jefa Greenaway
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning and Principal Architect - Greenaway Architects
Biography
Jefa Greenaway is a University of Melbourne senior academic of two decades standing, founding Director of Greenaway Architects, and a regular design commentator on ABC Radio Melbourne.
He’s championed Indigenous led design thinking for over 25 years as a registered architect in NSW and VIC, including as co-founder of Indigenous Architecture + Design Victoria, as co-author of the International Indigenous Design Charter, and as Regional Ambassador (Oceania) of INDIGO (International Indigenous Design Network). He’s a founding signatory of Architects Declare Australia an initiative foregrounding architecture’s role in to tackling the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, is co-curator (with Tristan Wong) of the Australian exhibition at La Biennale Architettura di Venezia 2020/21 (Venice Biennale) and was recently inducted into the Design Institute of Australia’s 2020 ‘Hall of Fame’
Jefa sits on numerous boards, and advisory panels including the State Design Review Panels in NSW and VIC, the Public Arts Advisory Panel (City of Melbourne) and design juries for the AIA, PIA and AILA and is currently an ambassador for the 2020 Sustainability Awards.
Session details
Wednesday 30 September 10:15 – 11:30 am | Responding Panel to KeynoteIndigenous Perspectives on SDGs, Cities and Climate Change - Hans P Bokelund, Director Aboriginal Melbourne - City of Melbourne Moderator: Marley Holloway-Clarke, Project Officer - Murrup Barak, Melbourne Institute for Indigenous Development Panellists: Jefa Greenaway, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning and Principal Architect - Greenaway Architects Stacie Piper, Wurundjeri, Dja Dja Wurrung, Ngurai-Illam Wurrung, First Nations Curator - Yalingwa, Djirri Djirri Dancer, Chairperson Victorian NAIDOC Committee Hans P Bokelund, Director Aboriginal Melbourne - City of Melbourne |