Other Volunteers
Below are details of some of the volunteers who have made a significant contribution to Urban Ecology Australia.
These include: Thanasis Avramis, Matt Fisher, Michael Pilling, Douglas Clarke, David Richards, Glenn Versteegen, Digby Hall, David Munn, Rosemary Zuljic, Lilia Nadyrshine, Salvadir Salinas, Tom Lauck, Stephanie Britton, and many more.
Thanasis Avramis
45 years old, of Greek background, Thanasis Avramis, and his wife, Dimitra,
have had a long standing interest in urban issues. Dimitra’s interest
arose from living in Athens for a number of years and seeing how differently
a city can be organised. Thanasis's interest arose in his teens when the prospect
arose of a six lane highway being built in their backyard — thanks to
the late and unlamented MATS plan.
In the early 80’s was involved in the Hindmarsh Residents Association fighting the evils of planning blight caused by the MATS plan and the Highways Department. Helped set up the Hindmarsh Housing Association, one of the first community based housing cooperatives in South Australia and the first cooperative to build about twenty mud brick homes — with labour contributed by the intending tenants.
Helped set up the Community Housing Assistance Service of SA (CHASSA) which went on to represent the interests of a couple of dozen housing cooperatives (with over 1000 tenants) and was instrumental in advocating for the first Housing Cooperative legislation in South Australia. Much of the initial work in "equity co-ops" or co-ops in which you buy the housing was done by CHASSA.
Has been Involved in a Greek theatre company, Theatro Oneiron. Current President of People for Public Transport — an advocacy group aiming to address solutions to the less than average state of public transport in South Australia. Presently employed as a Manager in Department of Family and Community Services where I have spent the last 20 years setting up child care services around the State.
Matt Fisher
Matt worked for many years as a volunteer for Urban Ecology Australia, and
for Wirranendi. He now works in policy development at the Community Housing
Council of SA, the peak body for Housing Co-operatives & Housing Associations
in South Australia. He is also completing a Masters degree in Philosophy at
Adelaide University, developing a creativity perspective on human nature & social
change.
Dr Michael Pilling
Michael Pilling is a longtime member of Urban Ecology, and an owner/resident
at Christie Walk. His formal training is in informatics and his interests
include cycling, liberation economics, air crash analysis, community radio,
genethics, natural healing, foreign cinema, walking, francophony, cooking,
and loudly listening to music. He has also been a Senate candidate with
the Australian Democrats. His particular interests in urban ecology include
public
transport design and scheduling and sustainable service provision.
Douglas Clarke
Worked with UEA as part of his University of Adelaide Environment Studies, to produce a report detailing examples of Good Urban Design in Adelaide.
David
Richards
Worked on the library and on the front desk in 1997 when Leslie Chaison and Norbert Thuringer were there as interns.
Glenn
Versteegen
Architecture Graduate - B Arch, Deakin University (Victoria). Glenn was involved with the design and documentation of the Halifax EcoCity Project and the EcoCity Whyalla Community Participation Program. He also conceived and initiated 'Go For Green', UEA's 'Do-It-Yourself' ecological design manual. Glenn also served as a UEA Board member.
Digby
Hall
Architecture Graduate - B Arch, University of South Australia. Digby was involved with the design and documentation of the Halifax EcoCity Project and the EcoCity Whyalla Community Participation Program. He continued to develop the Technical Library, and undertook research into building materials, construction processes and ecological design.
David Munn
Librarian. David has been involved with UEA from the beginning, and was a founding Board Member. David has been the primary donor of (hundreds of!) books to the UEA Library. David is co-editor with Paul F Downton of the Urban Ecology Annotated Bibliography.
Rosemary Zuljic
Architectural Technician. Rosey became a member of Urban Ecology in 1993 and worked with Urban Ecology & Ecopolis from that time until 1996. She has 14 years experience in drafting, design and documentation and seven years' experience with drafting for mud brick, rammed earth and pole frame construction. Rosey established and developed the Technical Library.
Lilia Nadyrshine
Postgraduate Student - PhD Architecture, University of South Australia. Lilia is qualified as an architect, and has a PhD in planning from Russia and worked up her skills in ArchiCAD (Computer Aided Design), and Photoshop.
Salvador
Salinas
Drafter - Dibujante Arquitectonico, Instituto Nacional General Francisco Menédez, El Salvador. Salvador is responsible for a highly detailed 1:50 scale model of the proposed townhouses for Bourne Court, a pilot project for the Halifax EcoCity Project. Salvador, who worked with Ecopolis and volunteered with UEA during 1996, came to Australia as a refugee from El Salvador with his wife and sons.
Tom
Lauck
Industrial Designer. Tom became involved with UEA in 1995, and is primarily responsible for the creation of a massive 1:20 scale model of a courtyard apartment block for the Halifax EcoCity Project.
Stephanie Britton
Executive Editor, Artlink Magazine. Stephanie trained as an artist in South Africa and London, and started Artlink in 1991 as a visual art journal for Australia. A special environment issue in the same year brought her into contact with the fledgling UEA, on which she served as a Board Member for several years.
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Many other people have made voluntary contributions of time and expertise to UEA, including:
John Adam, Ben Aylen, Stephen Baker, Gayleen Beer & children, Effie Best, Kerrie-Anne Bird, Jo Bishop, John Boland, Margaret Bolster, Joan Bourne (deceased), Ian Bourne, Nick Branson, Gavin Brosche, Johann Brunnbauer, Chris Bryant, Hine Bryant, Leslie Burns, Al Callagher, Brian Callen (deceased), Marcello Canelos, Sue Carver, Ettore Cavallaro, Michael Chalmers, Scott Christie (deceased), Ollie Clarke, Alex Clements, Jessica Clements, Dr. Peter Clements, Mike Croshaw, Jacqui Curiel, Dafydd Downton-Hoyle, Rhiannon Downton-Hoyle, Juris Ezergailis, Val Fairlie, Kerry Ferrari, Laurie Freeman, Clifford Frith, Pauline Frost, Claire Fulton, Georgia Glen, Bob Gormly, Michelle Grady, Pauline Green, Janine Haines, Stephen Hardy, Jeremy Hassan, Alex Haynes, Angela Hazebroek, David Hensel (deceased), Michael Hughes, Regina Huntington, Melissa Hurren, Danuta Jarman, Jemie, Adam Johnstone, Roley Jones, Derek Klau, David Lasscock, Henrick Lau, Marsha Lenore Monera, Tony Lisacek, Alison Lower, Mike Lyons, Suit Man, Val Maslin, Jack McKean, Sue Meeuwissen, Nick Mitchell, Pene Mitchell, Jo Morandin, Ben Murphey, Jaculin O'Brien, Tricia O'Donovan, Charles Ormsby, Roman Orszanski, Pat & Tracey Pagett, Mark Parnell, Frank Payne, Vin Pearce, Emilis Prelgauskas, Vanda Rounsfell, John Sandland, Doreen Schulz, Eric Schulz, Adrian Shackely, Rebecca Shearman, Ian Sheppard & family, Anna Sinn, Keith Smith, Richard Stevens, Alan Stewart, Jo Stokes & Christopher, Alison Terry, Jeremy Urquhart, Beverley Vaughan (deceased), Dawn Wallis, Sue Walton, Jane Whitehead, Jonathan Wilby, Natasha Wilby, Carly Williams, Nicola Williams, Melisha Willington, Natalie Wills, Kristen Winchester, Gianni Zandel
We have made every attempt to list all the people who have been involved, but if we have forgotten you, please contact us and let us know!
Note: All of the work done on the Halifax EcoCity Project was done by volunteers, and over $AUD2.5 million in voluntary labour went into the development of the Project since it was launched in 1992.
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