Professor Dan Hill is a renowned designer, urbanist, and educator, currently based at the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne.

With a career spanning over two decades, Dan has led transformative projects intersecting design, technology, and urban development across global cities, including Manchester's Northern Quarter and Google's campuses. His expertise lies in crafting social and cultural infrastructures that respond to contemporary urban challenges.

In this episode, our first long-form interview from the ClimateRelay: Building season, Dan introduces the Australian Carbon Reduction Roadmap, a collaborative initiative launched in early 2025 with the aim of translating global commitments of the Paris Agreement to local targets, from a national emissions limit through to definition of a carbon budget specific to the built environment.

In presenting the Roadmap, Dan demonstrates “design’s capability to produce tangible settings in which to encounter other ideas”, advocating for experiential engagement and demonstrating a myriad of ways we can “show don’t tell at system scale”. We covered a lot of ground, and none of it could be left behind in the edit suite, so this is the first of a two part presentation.

ClimateRelay: Building is a series of interviews with diverse thinkers and doers from the worlds of research, design, insurance, engineering and farming. Each in turn discusses how their work intersects with climate and building. Five full interviews will be published weekly, from next week, however we kick off this week with a ClimateRelay - a short excerpt from each of five interviews running back-to-back. In so doing, ClimateRelay is designed to demonstrate that climate issues cannot be discussed in silos. The impacts of climate change are intrinsically cross-disciplinary, requiring us to think in complex, non-linear ways.

Building launches Climate360, a weekly podcast that will take a broad view of how climate impacts our whole world. Over the weeks and months ahead we will explore how climate impacts health, economics, politics, science, farming, manufacturing and everything else. We will explore the challenges of a changing climate, while throwing a light on a rich community of innovators and activists, professionals and academics, makers and motivators, who are leading the way in how we might respond to our changing climate.

Climate360 is an initiative of Sam Redston and Andrew Mackenzie.

Join them every week for fresh ideas and bold propositions for a changing world.

The Australian Carbon Reduction Roadmap is a collaborative initiative, and we would like to acknowledge the team and encourage you to visit their website and join the movement at https://reductionroadmap.au

Australian Reduction Roadmap

Robert H. Crawford, James Helal, Dan Hill, André Stephan (University of Melbourne)

Gerard Reinmuth, Mikkel Moller Roesdahl, Sarah-Jane Wilson (TERROIR)

Gerard Reinmuth (University of Technology Sydney)

Tim Schork, Sarah-Jane Wilson (Queensland University of Technology)

Special thanks also to

Melbourne Design Week 2025

Ewan McEoin, Timothy Moore, National Gallery of Victoria

Creative Victoria

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