Building for a Nature-Positive Future Past Event

Carmen is a landscape architect and urban designer passionate about sustainability and design. She has worked on projects across multiple sectors including tourism, public realm, and infrastructure. She is interested in how design thinking, sustainability, and regenerative approaches can be meaningfully applied at all project levels to create high quality outcomes. She currently leads several mycelium research and development projects at Arup.

Bree is social researcher and foresight professional with over 20 years of experience. Her background spans policy development, urban regeneration, infrastructure planning, and strategic design. She is an Associate Principal at Arup and the Australasia Foresight Leader. Bree works with partners to explore change and understand complex developments, envisions and shape alternative futures and build foresight literacy.

RBGV has a team of mycologists working to advance knowledge of fungi. Dr Tom May researches species boundaries in fungi, co-ordinates fungal nomenclature globally and has published widely on fungal taxonomy and ecology. Tom co-founded Fungimap and has been active in community groups and public engagement over several decades, recently contributing commentary on fungi in the biopic of Bob Brown – The Giants.