HEDAT PROFESSIONAL TRAINING COURSE
Overview
This professional development initiative offers training in the use of the cutting-edge Hybrid Environmental Design Audit Tool (HEDAT) developed by Dr Chris Boulton and Dr Tony Matthews with their academic colleagues nationally.
Correctly used, the HEDAT provides deep and rigorous auditing of outdoor areas to support improved urban cooling, access, and safety.
Audit results are invaluable for prioritisation and targeting of place design and management interventions, as well as monitoring of implementation and outcomes.
The HEDAT fundamentally combines the principles of urban cooling, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), and Universal Design.
The purpose of the HEDAT course is to demonstrate the critical role of auditing external settings to inform safer, more comfortable, and climate resilient environmental design.
Landscape architects, urban designers, place/facility managers, and architects with some experience in site assessment and/or evaluation of outdoor spaces will find professional benefit from knowing how and when to use the HEDAT.
The course features information and demonstration sessions, field work, collaborative discussion, and group activities. Participants will receive a copy of Hybrid Environmental Design Audit Tool (HEDAT) for their use in practice.
COURSE FORMAT
Intro to HEDAT
Findings & Discussion
Site Audit Exercise
Background on the development of the Hybrid Environmental Design Audit Tool (HEDAT), its applications and testing across sub-tropical and tropical areas of Australia, varying in climate, scale, and urban density.
Site Audit Exercise
Findings & Discussion
Site Audit Exercise
Groups undertake field work to apply the HEDAT at an allocated site within/nearby the venue.
Findings & Discussion
Findings & Discussion
Findings & Discussion
Groups will return to the classroom to present & discuss findings; identify mitigation measures that could support safer, more comfortable, and climate resilient environmental design.