I’ve been involved with the Australian Architecture Forum for some time now, from the outside through an involvement with IASA. Now that I’m with Object I have an opportunity to be involved from the inside, given that Object run the conference, and I’ve been putting a lot of time into the planning of this year’s Forum.
It therefore gives me great pleasure to announce that the Australian Architecture Forum (AAF) is ready to accept registrations.
We’re very proud of what we have planned for AAF this year. We’ve leveraged the best ideas from conferences around the world, such as our use of Open Space Technology and a unique approach to opening our preparation to partners.
We’ve also selected tracks to target some of the hottest architectural topics at the moment – cloud and sustainability, as well as a general architecture track to target architecture as a profession.
Have a look at the Australian Architecture Forum web site. Registration is coming soon. I’ll also be blogging on that site as our preparation continues.
I’ve finally uploaded the slides from the Sustainable Architecture Design presentation that I presented in May at the JAOO conference in Sydney and Brisbane. The synopsis of the presentation is as follows:
- Sustainability is not just something that organisations can aim for to be nice or for marketing reasons. Rather, as governments increasingly aim to put a price on carbon electricity and the price of hardware will increase as the cost of carbon is passed on.
- It is surprisingly possible to control the amount of resources used through an application’s architecture.
- A number of approaches are outlined in the presentation for reducing resources used by applications and therefore cost and environmental impact.
This presentation is based on the article on the Green Maturity Model for Virtualisation that was published in Issue 18 of The Architecture Journal, supported by further work that has been completed by Object and myself on the subject.
The content is, of course, much better presented than read. If you would like it presented live in your organisation please contact me through Object.
Feedback is welcome….