There is something for everyone at Sustainability Week
Sustainability Week 2023 will be held during the fifth week of semester two, from 21-25 August. Events are organised by faculties, divisions, and the Student Guild by a group of committed and dedicated staff and students. The week aims to highlight sustainability across teaching, research and operational areas of the university and the wider community.
Events generally include maker markets, symposiums, research highlights, student-led events, guest speakers, workshops and more.
Submit an Expression of Interest to be part of our Sustainability festivals. During the week, a festival celebrating all things sustainability will be held at each of our campuses and we invite both the QUT and the greater Brisbane community to be involved.
If you are interested in being a part of our amazing community, complete the Expression of Interest form for the campus that you are interested in attending. You are welcome to submit one for each.
22 August, 11am-2pm, on Main Drive and the Kidney Lawn
24 August, 3pm-5.30pm, followed by activities and a film festival from 6pm
We are working hard to bring a diverse range of stallholders, events, speakers, and activities to our festivals and the week in 2023.
There is something for everyone at Sustainability Week
QUT Sustainability Week aims to highlight sustainability across teaching, research and operational areas of the university and the wider community.
During the week, a festival celebrating all things sustainability will be held at each of our campuses. Events include markets, research highlights, student-led events, guest speakers, workshops and more.
Monday 21 August
- Time
- 9am-4pm
- Where
- E Block Level 5 and the data wall and the Sphere, Kelvin Grove campus
The More-than-Human Maker Symposium 2023 'Yimbaya Maranoa: Creating Resonant Echoes from Country' is an immersive event at QUT that explores the intersection of art, culture, and environment in the Maranoa region. Led by distinguished researchers and creative practitioners, the symposium delves into audience experiences with art, creativity, and technology, and fosters connections with Indigenous knowledge keepers. Through video/audio works, the Remapping Mitchell Collective showcases its impactful projects. Keynote speaker Michelle Maloney, from the Australian Earth Laws Alliance, emphasises the importance of ecocentric projects and collaborations.
- Time
- From 11am
- Where
- V Block podium, Gardens Point campus
Come and talk to Chris from Australian Urban Gardeners about the green walls or to QUT’s sustainability manager about this bookable sustainability space at QUT designed by QUT students and built using sustainability and Campus to Country principles.
Tuesday 22 August: Sustainability Festival
- Time
- 11am-2pm
- Where
- Gardens Point campus, Main Drive and Kidney Lawn
Join us for the most exciting and action-packed sustainability festival at QUT yet.
Pick up your free retail voucher ($5 value) at the QUT Environment Collective or QUT Sustainability to use at our festival food truck.
We are aiming to use reusable serveware at the festival. Make sure you follow the signs to return your serveware and keep the Sustainability Festival waste-free.
Melissa makes unique clothing made from vintage napery and found fabric, everything is beautiful and one of a kind, made right here in Brisbane.
Learn how to quill or make paper beads using old magazines and books and pick up a beautiful piece of art or jewellery made by Wendy Ashcroft.
Red, Blue & Yellow is run by ceramicist and sculptor Paula de la Rua Cordoba. Paula is passionate about nature and plants, working with porcelain and wood to create intricate, large botanical scale sculptures and art installations. Paula is a PhD Candidate at QUT.
A fashion, culture and retail store that features a mix of conceptual, experimental, and upcycled pieces made by local designers and artists.
LUSH is a cosmetics company that lives up to its name as being advocates for ethical buying, fresh cosmetics, naked products, fighting animal testing, 100% vegetarian and handmade with love in New South Wales.
Watch zero-waste masters in action in a live cooking demo inspiring all of us to create delicious food with no food waste. The Ozharvest chef has a range of recipes, plus tips and tricks to revolutionise your home-cooking. You’ll also learn what OzHarvest does and the impact they make in communities across Australia.
Join Mallow Sustainability to find out more about composting and why it is so important to help us to fight food waste and improve our soils. Mallow can provide advice on what can go into QUT’s organics bins.
Brisbane City Council are on board their litter prevention van - World Clean-up Day is 16 September, learn more about how you can prevent litter and help to clean it up in your local area and in public places.
The QUT Guild Environment Collective will be holding their food stall and giving away native seeds. Have a chat to them about how to get involved in sustainability on campus.
Australian Urban Growers is Brisbane's own vertical farming start-up. Centred around first educating and then building the sector; have a chat to them about growing cooler futures together.
Chat to Facilities Management, Sustainability about Campus Sustainability, or the team from the Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability and Research Integrity) about sustainability across education and research at QUT. Pick up your retail voucher here.
Tours leaving from QUT Sustainability marquee:
- QUT Solar and Central Energy Plant tour, 11am-12pm, with engineering manager Adrian Rowe, bookings essential
- Cross River Rail Experience Centre, meet at 2pm and walk to CRR experience centre, register now
Health and wellbeing is one of QUT's sustainability goals, and is fundamental to productive work and study at QUT. DHSE will be promoting the health and wellbeing resources and initiatives available at QUT.
Orange Sky will be join us to:
- Do your laundry – if you are a student and need some washing done, drop in and get it washed while you find out more about what Orange Sky do.
- Sign up to be a volunteer for an Orange Sky Shift.
- Look at how QUT engineering students are working on sustainability with orange sky laundry vans
- Find out how you can donate to Orange Sky.
Chat to a researcher
Come and see what is happening with a range of sustainability projects across QUT Faculties on display, be amazed and learn something new.
Student projects
Come and see the Orange Sky Laundry Van and the sustainability elements that the Faculty of Engineering students have been working on.
Check out the furniture prototypes by the School of Architecture and Built Environment furniture design students who partnered with QUT Estate Planning to design a public furniture piece for ‘The Yard’ precinct, GP campus. Their full-size prototypes will be on display.
- Time
- 10am-12pm
- Where
- Old Government House, Gardens Point campus
Join textile artist Norton Fredericks to discover the art and science of dyeing textiles using natural sources.
Do you love science and tech and want a career that can help combat climate change, preserve our reefs, mitigate disasters or secure our future food? There are many ways you can combine your sustainable planet goals with science, maths and tech study and career paths at QUT.
In this special National Science Week panel, delivered during QUT’s Sustainability Week, we will explore the many and varied careers that combine science, maths and technology with sustainability, creating careers that will preserve our planet. Hear from recent graduates, QUT academics and industry representatives who have combined their STEM study with their passion for sustainability.
Wednesday 23 August
- Time
- 7.30am-11.30am
- Where
- Samford Ecological Research Facility (SERF), Samford Valley
Join our resident birding team from the TERN (Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network) citizen science project for a 2-hour bird identification walk, followed by a brief presentation about the TERN project and then a shared morning tea on the deck at the wonderful Samford Ecological Research Facility – if you haven’t been there yet, this is a great opportunity to visit one of QUT’s best natural sites.
You can also take photos for the university bioquest if you are in a QUT team.
- Time
- 11am-2pm
- Where
- Kelvin Grove campus, KG Link Area (between R and E Blocks)
Join Wendy Ashcroft in this paper maker event brought to you by the QUT Library and QUT Entrepreneurship. Wendy will have some of her amazing creations on sale too.
- Time
- 4pm-5pm
- Where
- Gardens Point campus, S Block, Owen, J, Wordsworth (OJW) Room
Dr Rebecca Huntley is one of Australia's foremost researchers on social trends and a Fellow of the Research Society of Australia. She holds degrees in law and film studies and a PhD in gender studies. She has lead research at Essential Media and Vox Populi and was a director at Ipsos Australia. For a number of years, she ran her own research and consultancy firm working closely with climate and environment NGOs, government and business on climate change strategy and communication. She is now Director of Research at the agency 89DegreesEast.
Rebecca is the author of numerous books including How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way that Makes a Difference (Murdoch books, 2020), was a broadcaster with the ABC’s RN and presented The History Listen and Drive on a Friday. She writes regularly for The Monthly and Australian Traveller Magazine and has written op eds for The Guardian and The SMH.
MC for the session is Professor Kerrie Wilson Pro Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability and Research Integrity).
You can purchase Rebecca’s book 'How to talk about Climate Change in a way that makes a difference' from the QUT Bookshop. Purchase a book at the event or beforehand and have it signed by the author following the event.
Zoom link available on request only.
Thursday 24 August: Sustainability Festival
Don’t miss the Kelvin Grove Sustainability Market, with an amazing range of stallholders.
Students from QUT’s School of Creative Practice, CIESJ Faculty will entertain the crowds with improvised dance performances leading into the festival.
Pick up your free retail voucher ($5 value) at the QUT Environment Collective or QUT Sustainability to use at Brewed Awakening open until late.
Melissa makes unique clothing made from vintage napery and found fabric, everything is beautiful and one of a kind, made right here in Brisbane.
Red, Blue & Yellow is run by ceramicist and sculptor Paula de la Rua Cordoba. Paula is passionate about nature and plants, working with porcelain and wood to create intricate, large botanical scale sculptures and art installations. Paula is a PhD Candidate at QUT.
LUSH is a cosmetics company that lives up to its name as being advocates for ethical buying, fresh cosmetics, naked products, fighting animal testing, 100% vegetarian and handmade with love in New South Wales.
Brisbane City Council are on board their litter prevention van - World Clean-up Day is September 16th, learn more about how you can prevent litter and help to clean it up in your local area and in public places.
Brisbane City Council will be showcasing the Victoria Park / Barrambin Master Plan, along with the park’s current features - nature wellness trails, walking and bike paths and picnic spots.
The QUT Guild Environment Collective will be holding their food stall and giving away native seeds. Have a chat to them about o how to get involved in sustainability on campus.
Join Mallow Sustainability to find out more about composting and why it is so important to help us to fight food waste and improve our soils. Mallow can provide advice on what can go into QUT’s organics bins
Chat to Facilities Management, Sustainability about campus sustainability, or the team from the Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability and Research Integrity) about sustainability across education and research at QUT. Pick up your retail voucher here.
Find out about Northey Street City Farm’s permaculture and sustainable living programmes. Northey Street City Farm is a non-profit organisation based in Brisbane with a purpose to be an inspirational model of a community based, urban permaculture farm which promotes and educates for sustainability.
Solar Citizens is an independent, community-based organisation working to protect and grow clean technology. Their vision is for an Australia where everyone is enjoying the financial, environmental and health benefits of clean technology: renewable energy, clean transport, and electrified homes.
Drop in and learn about renewable energy, household electrification and energy efficiency including health benefits, and myth busters.
QUT Fashion, from the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice's School of Design, seeks to develop the cultural, technical, business, and social change needed to transform the way we produce and live with textiles. As practitioners, researchers and teachers they have a vision for future textile industries that are:
- responsible; ethically produced, traceable materials and responsible practices
- resourceful; capturing value from waste
- rewarding; trust and knowledge‐sharing to realise social, cultural, environmental and economic benefits
- respectful; working towards justice and equity.
Come and see student work in upcycled fashion and view a fashion documentary by QUT fashion researchers.
Drop in and find out more about the fund and the work being done by Meanjin Solidarity Fund. They will be showcasing some of the work of the affiliated climate groups that they support, and their stall will also feature free DIY badge-making.
Note: This event is booked out.
Film and speaker program
Grab a bite, bring a blanket, and get comfy at QUT’s outdoor amphitheatre and get ready to be inspired by our wonderful speakers and watch some short films that educate, motivate, and provide hope. No bookings necessary.
Hear from speakers including local climate justice advocate, TJ Polataivao who shares the story of the Pacific Climate Warriors. Many island nations connected by a vast ocean are fighting to save their homelands as they face the frontline of climate change. We are not drowning, we are fighting!
Watch our inspiring short films and animations including:
Water Shield
A Brown Cabs Film written and produced by Jason Mayawagy De Santolo and produced by John Harvey.
A young leader is devastated when Borroloola Town Camps receive water contamination notices only to rediscover hope in the healing power of culture. The community comes together to defend their sacred waterways and protect Country.
Little Forest
By Paulina Muratore.
A delightful relationship between a small child and a tree they care for throughout their lifetime. This short illuminates an ongoing love and deep relationship needed for our forests right now.
The Migrant
Written by Lucas Lermytte and directed by Hugo Caby, Zoe Davise and Antoine Dupriez.
Two polar bears lose their arctic home and seek refuge somewhere safe. They cross much trouble and strife in search of a place to call home. The Migrant is a sobering reflection of global immigration experiences.
The Mushroom Hunters
By Neil Gaiman.
The Mushroom Hunters spans ancestry and relationship to landscape. A beautiful story uplifting the roles of gathering medicines and food. Amplifying the knowledge keepers and nourishing wisdom of the women tending our landscapes.
Sustainable City Living on 1/10th of an acre | degrowth in the Suburbs
By Happen Films.
By living more simply, creating permaculture gardens, utilizing energy technologies such as biogas and solar power, and taking part in community initiatives like car sharing, this household creates money and time savings that enable them to work fewer hours and develop a thriving and sustainable home.
Friday 25 August
- Time
- 8am-9am
- Where
- Meet at A Block lawn, Kelvin Grove campus
Take a stroll with Peter and tap into his extensive knowledge of the campus flora and fauna. You may see the native bees, wood ducks, possums in their nesting boxes and learn a little about the endemic and native species planted on campus - Pete's knowledge is amazing. Bookings are essential.
- Time
- 9am-10am
- Where
- Meet near the lower section of P Block just off Sports Lane, Kelvin Grove campus
Join our annual tree planting event as we continue to establish habitat to increase biodiversity on campus. Bring a hat, sunscreen and closed-in shoes for this event. Bookings are essential.
Green Impact participants can complete action S002 by taking part.
Highlights
- Dame Quentin Bryce joined our Makers Market at Old Government House.
- We enjoyed keynote addresses by wildlife filmmaker Dr Chadden Hunter and circular economy and sustainability change agent Professor Jacqueline Cramer.
- Trees were planted at Samford Ecological Research Facility and our Kelvin Grove campus.
- We learned how to make beautiful things from recycled paper.
- Student work and research was showcased at the CUBE.
- We had conversations and a cuppa with our Pro Vice-Chancellors and Elder in Residence.
- Students engaged with our industry partners at Cross River Rail and asked challenging questions at an expert panel discussion.
- We learned a little more about sustainable batteries for the future, renewable energy projects, and partnerships that are powering a sustainable future at a panel event featuring QUT’s vice-chancellor, the Assistant Minister for Hydrogen Development and the 50% Renewable Energy Target by 2030, QUT researchers and the Barcaldine Regional Council Mayor.
Monday 22 August
- Time
- 11.45am-1pm
- Where
- Gardens Point campus, Gardens Theatre, and online
The recent State of the Environment report provided a comprehensive assessment of Australia's environment. While the results painted a dire picture, there was also an undertone that research and universities will be integral to environmental recovery. This panel discussion focuses on the collaborative partnerships that QUT has in place with both industry and government and the leadership required to ensure that our research, education and operational outcomes are focused on and leading us towards a sustainable energy future. When you register for this event, you will be invited to submit a question for the panel.
Join award winning journalist and MC, Sally Eeles as she leads a Q & A style panel discussion with:
- Assistant Minister for Hydrogen Development and the 50% Renewable Energy Target by 2030, Mr Lance McCallum MP,
- QUT Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Margaret Sheil AO,
- QUT's Associate Professor Sara Couperthwaite (Lava Blue Centre for Predictive Research into Specialty Materials (PRiSM)),
- Mayor Barcaldine Regional Council, Cr Sean Dillon and
- Executive General Manager Future Energy, CS Energy, Emma Roberts
as they answer your questions and provide insights into the partnerships powering a sustainable future.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; General public; School students
- Time
- 1.15pm-2.15pm
- Where
- Gardens Point campus, meet at P Block Level 4 entrance
See QUT's solar panels up close on our P Block building at the Gardens Point Campus and find out more about solar installations at QUT. Join QUT's Energy Manager, Mr Adrian Rowe for a personal tour of the P Block solar arrays, learn about energy use and consumption at QUT and get your questions answered by our resident expert on all things energy at QUT.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students
- Time
- 3.30pm
- Where
- Online
Discussion of QUT’s steps to net-zero, including the Columboola solar farm arrangement in conjunction with Griffith University and CQU as part of CS Energy/State Gov. of Queensland Long Term Electricity Supply Agreement. CS Energy will also discuss some emerging technologies, trends and other upcoming renewable projects.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students
- Time
- 9am-12pm
- Where
- Gardens Point campus, P Block, The CUBE Zones 1 & 2
Come and see this extensive showcase on sustainability at QUT, including vision, strategy, planning, progress, initiatives in action, student collaborations and education for sustainability. Hear from students (via video) about their sustainability projects, research, and tips for living more sustainably.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; General public
- Time
- 10am-10.45am
- Where
- Gardens Point campus, P Block
Browse the Sustainability Showcase at the CUBE and drop in for a conversation and a cuppa with our Pro Vice-Chancellors and Uncle Cheg. This is a great opportunity to meet your Pro Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability Strategy) Professor Kerrie Wilson and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy) Ms Angela Barney-Leitch and QUT’s Elder in-Residence Uncle Cheg, for an informal chat as we kick off Sustainability Week 2022. Morning tea will be provided.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students
- Time
- 11am-2pm
- Where
- Gardens Theatre Foyer, X Block, Gardens Point campus
Brought to you by the Student Guild, join in maker workshops with Reverse Garbage, see demonstrations by Mallow Sustainability and QUT Science Faculty. Talk to Green Caffeen about the coffee cup swap program in place at QUT and receive a free coffee or check out the Environment Collective's suitcase sale/eco hub.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; General public
Tuesday 23 August
- Time
- Symposium 9am-4.30pm
Keynote: Professor Jacqueline Cramer, 11.30am-12.30pm - Where
- Gardens Point campus, P Block.
Keynote at Gardens Theatre
The transition to a circular economy is underway across all sectors – learn how researchers, industry and community are collaborating, and join us for short talks and posters on research for a more just and sustainable world.
The symposium features a keynote from circular economy and sustainability change agent Professor Jacqueline Cramer.
This symposium is led by QUT's Centre for a Waste Free World, with thanks to QUT's Centre for Justice and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Australia.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; QUT alumni; General public; Industry
- Time
- 9.30am-1.30pm
- Where
- Old Government House
Join us at our Makers Market during QUT Sustainability Week 2022, which will include artwork, fashion, jewellery and homewares with a sustainability focus, from makers who create with a spotlight on environmental sustainability and care. Registration not required.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; QUT alumni; General public
- Time
- 10am-11am
- Where
- Gardens Point campus, P Block, Room 419, and online (Zoom)
An open discussion forum about ways in which we could improve healthy and sustainable food approaches at QUT’s campuses.
Guest presenters will provide details on the experience of other universities and QUT researchers will discuss current progress at QUT. Presentations will be followed by an opportunity to share your thoughts in discussion with the panel of presenters.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; QUT alumni; General public
- Time
- 1pm-2.30pm
- Where
- Online
"Addressing Harmonics Issues of Grids with High Penetration of Grid-Connected Power Converters: calibration and measurement."
Our first speaker Professor Firuz Zare will talk about how penetration of grid-connected renewable energy systems and smart loads based on high-frequency power electronics converters (such as solar inverters, wind turbines and variable speed motor drive systems) has been increasing in low and medium-voltage power networks.
Dr Ilya Budovsky, our second speaker, will discuss how Rapid growth of sustainable sources of energy and energy-efficient appliances necessitates reliable measurement of increasingly complex voltage and current waveforms in medium and high-voltage electrical networks.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students
- Time
- 10am-11am
- Where
- Online
Our expert panel, lead by manufacturing expert Shay Chalmers, will talk about how advanced manufacturing (and in particular cobotics and associated technology) can lead to a more sustainable manufacturing industry. For example, through:
- improved manufacturing processes resulting in energy savings
- adoption of ‘circular’ manufacturing processes
- reduction in reliance on global supply chains
- less waste to landfill through process optimisation.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; General public
Wednesday 24 August
- Time
- 11am-1pm
- Where
- Kelvin Grove campus, KG-E block Data Wall
Gain knowledge and inspiration from environmental activists from across southeast Queensland by visiting this interactive digital display brought to you by the Faculty of Health.
The exhibit was developed through an Honours research project using multimedia to describe ways in which community members are building more resilient communities. Come, be inspired, and learn about ways you can get involved! No registration required.
Audience: QUT students; QUT staff; QUT alumni; General public
- Time
- 9am-12pm
- Where
- Gardens Point campus, The CUBE Zones 1, 2 & 3
Discover the world-changing work of academics in the Faculty of Science and research centres. This extensive showcase details innovative research in clean energy, climate change/environmental impact and a circular economy. Join us for short talks to gain insights into building a sustainable future.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; General public
- Time
- 9am-10am
- Where
- Kelvin Grove campus
Meet on Sports Lane, near the bike rack
Facilities Management are working to increase biodiversity on campus and are planting more trees. Join the team, plant a tree and help to protect and enhance our local wildlife on campus.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students
- Time
- 1pm
- Where
- Online
The Adobe Creative Challenge is led by Adobe and Visual Communications in the QUT School of Design.
Students will work with a team (between 2-5) to design and share a digital solution to a problem based around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The final visual design solutions will be showcased during an online event that all are invited to attend.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students
- Time
- 2.30pm-4pm
- Where
- Cross River Rail Experience Centre, Level 1/151 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane City
The Cross River Rail Experience Centre is a community engagement and education hub developed in partnership with Queensland Museum, providing detailed project information, digital engagement experiences, and learning opportunities for visiting members. This Faculty of Engineering sustainable event at The CCR Experience centre unlocks the sustainable design and engineering elements of this critical Queensland public transport infrastructure project which will improve our quality of life, help our economy keep growing, generate thousands of jobs, and activate urban development across the whole region.
- overview of Cross River Rail project
- time for guests to experience the centre
- panel of CRR engineers
- Q&A time.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students
Thursday 25 August
- Time
- 9am-4pm
- Where
- Kelvin Grove campus, KG-Z9-607
This workshop will bring together academics, researchers and practitioners to share their experiences, expertise and visions for::
- evolving participatory design approaches to move beyond the individual
- reinvigorating a stronger relationship between communities and institutions across different scales in order to re-politicise participatory design practices, projects and methods
- making a concerted effort of contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
We are specifically interested in ways of ‘designing smart’ by engaging and working with communities to address complex challenges, such as social inequality, economic disparity and environmental degradation to build more sustainable, resilient and socially ‘just’ communities.
The workshop will be run in conjunction with QUT Sustainability Week as well as the Brisbane, Australia PDC Places event as a full day face-to-face workshop.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; QUT alumni; General public; Industry
- Time
- 9am-3pm
- Where
- Gardens Point, P Block, The CUBE Zones 1 & 2
Sustainable University Campus of the Future – Impact Lab 3 | Planet (9am-11am)
This student showcase was completed in 2021 by Impact Lab 3 students. The design proposals are based on a sustainable future (2050) for QUT. The students completed stakeholder mapping, applied the Sustainable Development Goals, analysed the systems influencing identified sustainability problems and evaluated the dominant narratives that shape the world we live in to develop their designs.
SCIP – screens blurb (11am-1pm)
The Student Catchment Immersion Program (SCIP) is a co-curricular activity that provides the opportunity for QUT Engineering and Science students to learn about the local environment and the role of Brisbane City Council and the Creek Catchment groups.
Semester one students shared one of the greatest gifts from our Indigenous Australian people, Dadirri, which is described as inner, deep listening and quiet, still awareness. The contemplative way of Dadirri taught students to be still in our local native Brisbane creek catchment reserves. The showcase features student photos and their Dadirri.
Sustainable Engineering Research (1pm-3pm)
Welcome to the Faculty of Engineering Sustainable research, profiling some of the incredible work undertaken by our world-acclaimed researchers. View our sustainable research capabilities, research visions for local and global futures in food waste, renewable energy, agriculture and bioeconomy, wastewater, and civil engineering - changing our world for the better.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; General public
- Time
- 9am-10am
- Where
- Kelvin Grove State College - meet at Gate 6 on Tank Street
Join Australian Urban Growers as they take you through Barrambin Farm - an aquaculture venture at Kelvin Grove State College and the indigenous garden where you will find out about the local plants used by traditional land owners for thousands of years.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students
- Time
- 2pm-3pm
- Where
- GP-P6 Atrium, Gardens Point campus
The Faculty of Engineering are launching a new sustainable electrical engineering major.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students
- Time
- 4pm-5.30pm
- Where
- S Block Room 410, Gardens Point Campus
This session is about industry's sustainable futures priorities and core business, providing an open forum with our students sharing their sustainable challenges, priorities and future plans.
Professor Les Dawes, Head of School, Civil and Environmental Engineering will MC this event with industry experts:
- Claire Thorstensen - Manager (Sustainability), Infrastructure Management & Delivery, Department of Transport and Main Roads (QUT Alumni)
- Deepak Sambhi - Director - Power at KPMG
- Daniel Eghbal - Manager Future Network Strategy, Energy Qld
- Jayden Flint - Principal Advisor - Environment, Rio Tinto Aluminum Pacific Operations.
There will be opportunities for discussion and questions with the expert panel and light refreshments after the panel event.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; General public
- Time
- 11am-1pm
- Where
- Kelvin Grove campus
QUT Library, outside Entrepreneurship, Level 2
Learn how to make jewellery and origami out of upcycled library books. This event is brought to you by QUT Library and Entrepreneurship. No registration required.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students
Friday 26 August
- Time
- 12pm-1pm
- Where
- Gardens Point campus, Gardens Theatre and livestreamed
"Attenborough and the Environment: Do nature documentaries really help sustainability?"
Queensland filmmaker and biologist, Dr. Chadden Hunter has spent the last 20 years working alongside Sir David Attenborough directing the world’s most famous nature films. Join him for a fascinating multimedia journey through the secrets of wildlife filmmaking during QUT’s Sustainability Week 2022. Along the way he’ll share never before seen footage and ask thought-provoking questions about whether glossy nature shows actually do anything for global sustainability.
This event will be in person at QUT’s Gardens Theatre, QUT Garden’s Point campus and livestreamed.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; QUT alumni; General public
- Time
- 10am-11am
- Where
- QUT Art Museum
Please join us for this special Sustainability Week 2022 exhibition floor talk as we showcase our research, our teaching and our operational activities with a focus on environmental sustainability in the QUT Art Museum.
To coincide with QUT Sustainability Week and the To Be Human exhibition, join Renae Belton for a floor talk of what is the first major survey exhibition of Australian-Japanese artist duo Ken + Julia Yonetani.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; QUT alumni; General public; Industry
- Time
- 9am-1.30pm
- Where
- Kelvin Grove E Block Level 5, and the Data Wall and Sphere
Join the transdisciplinary collective of Creative Industries Faculty academics and partners as they lead a proactive, creative response to the unfolding planetary ecocide. The Sustainability and More-than-Human Maker Symposium showcases ways that our Interaction Design and Visual Communication disciplines are responding to sustainability challenges – especially with reference to design and its impact on the world conceived as the a whole: human and more than human.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; General public
- Time
- 8.45am
- Where
- Samford Ecological Research Facility, 148 Camp Mountain Road, Samford Valley, 4520
Come and experience the wonderful Samford Ecological Research Facility (SERF). Your day will include an introduction to the history of SERF, a bushwalk through the property, an informative presentation from Dan Cook on the QUT Research Apiary, tree planting, followed by a share lunch.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; QUT alumni
- Time
- 9am-11am
- Where
- Gardens Point campus, P Block, The CUBE Zone 3
Come and view the sustainability research being undertaken across the Faculties of Business and Law and Health.
Sustainability is high on the agenda for QUT Research and this showcase will provide the viewer with insights into research across the areas of food and environmental sustainability, and the intersections between sustainability, business and law.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; General public
All week
- Time
- Monday to Friday, 11am-1pm
- Where
- Gardens Point campus, P Block podium
Join Australian Urban Growers at their living sustainability week installation and chat about how you can create your very own urban farm, even if you only have a very small space.
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; General public
- Time
- Anytime
- Where
- Anywhere in nature
Play the world's first mobile game that takes you outdoors to discover, map and ultimately help protect life on our planet. Your sightings contribute to real research and conservation.
QUT has two teams in the University Bioquest in 2022. Help QUT to compete against universities around the globe during the month of August by joining Questagame (search for 'QUT Team 2').
Audience: QUT staff; QUT students; General public
Contact us
For more information about the events, contact QUT Sustainability.
Facilities Management Y1 Block
Victoria Park Rd
Kelvin Grove QLD 4059