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Professor Leena Thomas: I think Architects of the future have a number of challenges.
To not just mitigate the impact on sustainability but to actually create environments that are
comfortable and offer delight for the people that use them. For example at UTS we offered
a studio around the impact of mining on a small town in Queensland and there the students
are not just being challenged to think outside of what may be a traditional domain of a city
but also think about how development decisions and architect decisions might become catalysts
for sustainability. Thinking about the legacy to the town, the legacy people leave behind
as architects and so on. Rosie Peppit: What UTS is good at sort of
pushing us to think about is not so much ticking boxes but how can we adapt to these ever changing
rules and regulations or conditions which the government or environment are going to
throw at us, which is a really good way of thinking, a problem solving attitude as opposed
to a ticking box sort of attitude.