b'SYDNEY - BOSTON - FUKUOKA 2018 - 2019Scott HawkenThe first of these scenarios was to be the most innovativeand inaction across diverse societies. UNSW Sydney was the adopting an act now approach to climate sensitive design.only Australian university to participate demonstrating UNSWs A range of planning and urban design innovations could beunique expertise in this teaching-research nexus bringing developed and applied to the selected area. This scenariotogether city analytics with planning and urban development was defined as the early adopter scenario. T he second ofand design.the scenarios involves a wait and see approach to climateThe project is a good example of geodesign as both a noun and innovation where society pauses until a hypothetical critical-massa verb. As a noun, geodesign produces explicit knowledge in the or event convinces them of the advantages of implementingform of deliberate plans set forth with the intention of changing climate innovations. Although this cautious approach may avoidpresent conditions. As a very, geodesign conveys the process early adopter mistakes it also jeopardises the ability of theof integrating data with design in rapid iterative feedback loops. society in question to set up important developmental pathwaysIn 2018 geodesign as a verb and a process, was also apparent necessary for long term change. The approach therefore risksthrough the simultaneous efforts of many global teams working locking society out of certain innovations that require forwardin parallel to produce the three scenarios. Now in 2019 the planning commitments such as large-scale infrastructure andresults are being published on the international geodesign incremental, positive ecological growth (Yu, 2012). The finalcollaboration website (IGC, 2019).approach known as the business as usual approach builds on current trends and neglects to adopt any climate adaptationUrban Climate Innovation in Sydneyinnovations beyond what standard business practices currentlyThere is perhaps nowhere more fitting for climate challenges allow. to be address in urban Australia than in Western Sydney which Although the three scenarios share a current spatial area andin 2018 and 2019 was at times the hottest place in Australia. a common historical starting point, they diverge in time andThe site of the proposed Western Sydney Aerotropolis was this divergence is captured in three temporal snapshots. Thetherefore selected as a case study for the UNSW Sydney Studio. approach can therefore demonstrate the opportunities andCurrently proposals for western Sydney seek to build the new6266risks to different climate adaptation and maladaptation globally.Western Sydney Airport in a strategic move to address social Around 80 participating universities signed up for the challengeand economic inequality. It is a long-awaited chess piece in include University College London, Peking University, Addisrealigning, development in Sydney. Sydney, like many cities, has Ababa University, Amity University Mumbai, Beijing Forestryalways been divided according to concentrations of advantage, University, University College Dublin, Technion - Israel Istitutejobs, housing and opportunity. Roughly the line of division runs of Technology, University of Tokyo, Politecnico di Milano,from the southeast to the northwest with the Southeast Sydney Universidade de So Paulo (USP), Arizona State Universityand the proposed airport site being on the wrong side of the and Pennsylvania State University. The enterprise was thereforetracks.truly global in nature capturing the impacts of climate action Master of Urban Development & Design 2018-2019Introduction studio 2 8pt.indd 5 26/11/2019 4:59:32 PM'