Ross Harding

Ross is an optimistic and creative engineer who provides strategic and cost/benefit advice on architectural projects ranging from houses to city wide masterplans. Ross has lived and worked as a consultant in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Stockholm, Mexico and Berlin. Acknowledging that the barriers to transform cities to become self-sufficient are as much about technology and finance as they are people, Ross started to focus on the creative and cultural aspects of environment technology and solutions. Ross is also the founder of Off the Grid Festival, a cultural intervention dedicated to transforming our cities. Currently Ross and his team are collaborating with 15 architecture firms to help transform Greater Melbourne into the world’s first self-sufficient city.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.