Date: Monday 1 June 2026
Session Times: 9am–12pm and 6–9pm (AEST)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
Cost: Free
Registration and participation
Make a submission
Please review the submission guidelines and make your submission to the digital agora.
Register to attend - register now
Confirm your attendance at one of the online sessions.
A Zoom link will be provided to you closer to the event date.
Closing date for registration and submissions: Friday 24 April 2026
Participants are also encouraged to register for the third and final part of Towards Ecosophical Neighbourhoods to attend the in-person Ecosophical Neighbourhoods Symposium. Please note, this requires a separate registration.
Towards Ecosophical Neighbourhoods
How do you feel about the future? What stops you from having the fun and healthy lifestyle you would like to have? Without a doubt, we are living in a time of many interconnected challenges - from housing affordability to the very health of our planet and our own within it.
To answer these challenges, we invite you to join us in exploring how our neighbourhoods can support people and Nature to thrive together. We are naming the re-imaging of locally-based living spaces Ecosophical Neighbourhoods: communities and neighbourhoods designed for balance, connection, and regeneration.
Event structure: Three connected experiences
This event will be articulated in three parts:
A series of online submissions of focused materials
These submissions include summaries, short presentations, narrated PowerPoints etc. These materials will be made available to all participants at the beginning of May and will be the axis around which future discussions will revolve.
A digital agora
This space will allow participants to discuss and dissect all the materials that have been previously contributed.
An in-person symposium
The Ecosophical Neighbourhoods Symposium aims to bring together the insights from the previous parts by facilitating reflection on existing - and emergence of new - frameworks and community designs through the lens of ecological wisdom and regenerative societal relationships.
You must register separately for the Ecosophical Neighbourhoods Symposium.
An opportunity to connect and collaborate
The entire event is being led by Indigenous voices, and is articulated around the Aboriginal notion of 'Country', what Blaze Kwaymullina calls the total sum of 'Land, Earth, Sky, Universe and all the relationships of the world moving and interacting with one another'.
This isn't just another conference. It's a collaborative space to listen, share, and imagine a new way of living together. We warmly invite you to join us for the full journey - to connect, contribute, and be part of shaping communities where both people and Nature flourish.
Contact us
For further information or if you have any questions, please contact:
Alex Pelizzon
Email: apelizzon@usc.edu.au
