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Green Cities - panel discussions about how a burning sustainability problem of GE ’ s was solved through a competition that was won by a Singaporean dentist .
The message is clear . While our industry is hyper-connected , we will never have all the answers , so we must connect with other industries and other ideas .
One of the most striking thoughts for me over the two days came from Reuben Berg , the founder of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria . Reuben pulled out a tape measure to represent the 68,000 years that indigenous people have lived in deep connection with the land , and then compared it with the tiny 200 years or so since European settlement . Reuben emphasised that we have much to learn from aboriginal people about connection to place , and connection to the environment . But he also reminds me that we have much to learn from people with other points of view , other ways of living , other ways of working . And it ’ s only through connecting that we ’ ll discover what they are .
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