Flooding occurred in many areas of Queensland during late December 2010 and early January 2011, with three quarters of the state declared a disaster zone. FLOOD OF IDEAS is an initiative of Healthy Waterways and The Edge, State Library of Queensland to gather diverse and creative ideas from the community on how we can better plan for and respond to future floods.

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2 Cities – 1 River

The School of Architecture, University of Queensland submitted this idea on May 18, 2011

It’s your choice…..
Whether you live on a river, in the city, in a desert or on the beach. It’s your choice.
But you can’t choose what the varying elements of those situations will bring. You can’t choose where the wind will blow, when the water will rise or when it will fall and this is what we have to learn to respond to.

We need to learn to live with nature. We need to start changing the way we live so that when something completely natural happens there is no need to label it a disaster.