Navigating Sustainability 2025: Blue Zones & how to make them

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03 Blue Zones & how to make them

We need connected, resilient and healthy communities for living and working if we’re to achieve the sustainability transition.

Discover how sensitive architecture, urban design and the emerging discipline of lonelygenics can help solve the loneliness epidemic and generate stronger communities.

Learn from our expert speakers in residential development, architecture and lonelygenics.

They’ll share what great looks like if we want higher densities in our cities and a more engaged productive and happy workforce.

You’ve heard of those magical Blue Zones – where people often live to 100 and beyond, eat well, have good exercise and a happy social life? How good would it be to live there?

But maybe it’s not all about the food and exercise.

As The Economist last year found residents of a Spanish village that looked set to be declared one of the world’s special Blue Zones did not always eat the best food, and probably drank a little too much. What may be more significant is that its residents did most things together with friends, neighbours and family. It turns out the most important ingredient in Blue Zones could be social connections.

At this event you’ll discover how to create better residential and work communities. How Australian experts are drawing on global best practice to inform the work of developers, designers, architects and urban planners.

We’re making a Blue Zone!

Come visit, stay for lunch

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Petie Walker on Stockland’s social impact challenge

Stockland, along with its consortium partners Link Wentworth, City West Housing, and Birribee Housing, finalised contracts last week for the development of the Waterloo Renewal Project in Sydney with Homes NSW.

Blue Zones are a path to better lives – let’s discover how to create them

There’s enormous and growing interest in social impact from big investors. Sustainability and socially minded capital want assurance that it’s helping deliver better places to live and work.

Blue Zones and how solving our loneliness epidemic can be easier than we think

The thing about our housing crisis is that along with it has come a loneliness epidemic. Perhaps the two things are related.

Speakers:

Petie Walker is the Executive General Manager, Sustainability & Delivery at Stockland. 

Kellie Payne is an Architect and a Director of Bates Smart.

Professor Xiaoqi Feng is the Professor of Urban Health and Environment in UNSW’s Faculty of Medicine and Health and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health, Australia.

Gabrielle McMillan

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