DAY ONE: Thursday 19th July 2007

9.50

9.55

'Housekeeping' notices

Welcome and Opening – David Rowe, CCR Director

10.00

1. KEYNOTE

Elizabeth Shove The Dynamics and Hydraulics of Everyday Life

11.00

Morning Tea

11.30

2. PLENARY SESSION
(Chair: Zoë Sofoulis)

11.30

Gay Hawkins From the Tap to the Bottle – the biopolitics and branding of bottled water

12.00

Zoë Wilson Debates, Disconnections and Drowning: The politics of water services and scarcities in post apartheid South Africa

12.30

Sarah Bell The Driest Continent and the Greediest Water Company: drought in Sydney and London

1.00

Lunch

2.15

3. PANEL: RIVERS AND GENDER
(Chair: Stephen Muecke)

4. PANEL: CULTURAL VALUES AND WATER MANAGEMENT (Chair: Basant Maheshwari)

Heather Goodall Women, Race and Rivers in Western New South Wales

Robyn Bushell & Bruce Simmons The development of a methodology to understand the relationship between community values and economic development

Stephen Wearing Masculinity and “Power Recreation” on the Georges River

Shelley Burgin, Basant Maheshwari, Tony Webb, Samsul Huda, Roger Packham, Qaiyum Parvez and Gary Wallace A systems approach for water use and management in Peri-Urban Landscapes: connecting science and cultural dimensions for sustainability

Allison Cadzow Water Flexibility: Vietnamese women’s experiences of migrancy, gender relations and rivers in Sydney and Vietnam

Paul Mulley & Deborah Atkins It’s not all technical, the process is just as important: A case study of the Sydney urban irrigation sector

3.20

Discussion of panel themes

Discussion of panel themes

3.35

Afternoon Tea

4.00

5. FLOWS OF WATER AND CULTURE
(Chair: Emily Potter)

6. COMMUNITY RESPONSES
(Chair: Frances Bonner)

Polladach Theerapappisit ransforming Mekong’s Water Culture: Perceptions from the Ground

June Marks Social and cultural constructions of risk: the experience of water recycling

Kirsten Henderson Water as the Medium of Cultural Traffic: Some Preliminary Thoughts

Kitty Van Vuuren The role of the independent community press in the management of water

5.00

End Day One

DAY TWO: Friday 20th July 2007

9.45

7. WATER GOVERNANCE AND PARTNERSHIPS (twenty minute papers) Chair: Gay Hawkins

8. PANEL: COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL APPROACHES (fifteen minute papers) Chair: Sarah Bell

Phillip O’Neill The shift to procurement: legacies from economic classifications of infrastructure

Zoë Sofoulis & Carolyn Williams From pushing atoms to growing networks: cultural and sociotechnical principles for water conservation

Sam Wong Researching public-private partnerships in water governance

Bhakti Devi, Zoë Sofoulis, Carolyn Williams and Bruce Simmons Putting the Users into End Use Analysis: Rethinking residential landscape water demand management

Frances Bonner Waterwise advice on television gardening programs

11.00

Morning Tea

11.30

9. NEGOTIATING CULTURAL VALUES
(Chair: Kay Anderson)

10. EVERYDAY WATER AND DESIGN
(Chair: Gay Hawkins)

Damian Lucas & Danielle Flakelar-Carney Incorporating Aboriginal Cultural Values in water management in Western NSW

Cameron Tonkinwise Shared Laundering: Designing Sustainability in Relation to Historical Habits

Kate Harriden Wasted Resource? Perceptions of Stormwater and its Management in Two Locations in Australia and Thailand

Dena Fam Design and cultural acceptability of waterless toilets

12.30

Lunch

Peter Charuk – Aqualux II video installation

2.00

11. PANEL: CREATIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
(Chair: Zoë Wilson)

12. PANEL: WATER CULTURES IN TRANSITION
(Chair: Kitty van Vuuren)

Claudia Baldwin Eliciting Values Using Photovoice for Consensus Building in Water Planning

Fiona Allon Water is the New Oil?: How to reconcile new values and old habits

Mateusz Wolnicki A Narrative Approach to dealing with conflict over intended water use – the Paroo River

Annie Bolitho Aquifer

Janet McDonald Redeeming “Poo”woomba: Using Visual Arts and Theatre to Enable Cultural Engagement

Kim Satchell Making eco-sense of water: Surf Culture, Cultural Studies and the Eco-humanities

3.00

Discussion of panel themes

Discussion of panel themes

3.15

Afternoon Tea

3.30

13. PLENARY DISCUSSION
(Chair: Zoë Sofoulis)

5.00

End of Symposium