Tony Smith

urban hydrology city of brimbank melbourne australia complex systems emergence supervenience healthy waterways melbourne indigenous thinking victorian volcanic plains city of maribyrnong grasslands great ocean road transport planning heavy rail moonee ponds creek epistemology tyson yunkaporta biology waterways melbourne water environment geology hydrology complexity theory attractor basins community consultation complexity abiogenesis earth systems wood wide web animal indigenous silencing schematics vesicles community action black swans pandemic lockdowns ecosystems decline accumulation aggregation addiction externalisation extraction ducklings phragmites monitoring failure campground community rolling rocks solomon heights populations otway coast kororoit knowledge astrophysics ecological emergency emergency verbal blindness save the world sand criticality modern knowledge sticks and stones colonial animals nature growth areas public transport decolonising environmentalism harvard mba tim o'reilly adversary process community collaboration east west link colonial consequences modernity civilisation animals universals urbanism flow cruickshank park sunshine hospital david graeber ribosomes birds space exploration earth history drake equation diversion daylighting under grounding environmental challenges protective measures sea level rise stakeholders mmbw city of hume shipping map growth uncoupled gradient dissipation perspective reinstatement tree hollows maintenance bird minds natural history philosophy of science wye river fire cumberland river peri-urban population country decentralisation v/line victoria regional growth train lines calder lightning talk yolŋu preliterate enlightenment framing kororoit institute australia infrastructure geelong tunnel napthine mulder urban planning white elephant co-working synergy open what technology wants adjacent possible platform barriers biological models dissipative systems maps chaos limits models terminology singularity keith henson space transhumanism mapping practice theory western region growth region strategic plan melbour