Venue

Cairns Colonial Club Resort, 18-26 Cannon Street, Cairns Qld 4870, Australia
Direct Phone: (07) 4053 8873/ ( +617) 4053 8873 Direct Fax: (07) 4053 8822 / (+ 617) 4053 8822
www.cairnscolonialclub.com.au

Cairns (latitude 17° south) is the major city in far north Queensland (Australia) and a gateway to many tourist attractions including the Great Barrier Reef and tropical rainforests. The Cairns Colonial Club Resort is set within 4.5 hectares of tropical gardens, with 3 lagoon swimming pools and 2 resort restaurants, and combines the tranquility of a tropical resort with the advantages of a mainstream hotel. June to September is an excellent time for visiting the tropics.

Dates

Monday 28 September 2009 – Thursday 1st October, 2009
Welcome reception - Monday 6 pm;
Departure time -Thursday 3pm

Registration

The registration fee is not yet fixed, but is expected to be approximately AU$700-AU$1000 (Australian dollars) excluding accommodation and breakfast.

How to book accommodation

Contact the Cairns Colonial Club Resort direct for on-site shared or single rooms. Current prices start at AU$140 per night including breakfast.

Accommodation can be directly booked through the Groups Department groups@cairnscolonialclub.com.au OR telephone +617 4053 8849. Use “ISDDE Conference” as the reference to make the bookings at the special conference rate. The contact person is Veronica.

Cairns also has a wide variety of other accommodation.

Conference Chair

Professor Kaye Stacey, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. k.stacey@unimelb.edu.au

About ISDDE

ISDDE was launched in 2005 with the goals of improving the design and development process; building a design community; and increasing the impact of professional design expertise on educational practice (see www.isdde.org). ISDDE is chaired by Professor Hugh Burkhardt, University of Nottingham, Hugh.Burkhardt@nottingham.ac.uk.

ISDDE 2009 will be open for all designers, researchers and curriculum leaders who feel affinity with the goals of the society. The number of participants will be limited to 100. This conference will bring together outstanding designers, design project leaders and curriculum innovators from around the world, including the US, the UK, Australia, Japan and the Netherlands, together with a few people from the agencies which commission or support such work. We wish to include designers from developing countries and welcome help in identifying such people.