May 18, 2018 | Community development, Community Engagement, Health, It's cultural!, Jane's Walk Melbourne
Following the recent Jane’s Walk Festival, I’m so excited about people ‘walking in community’. That is, walking in the simplest, most ordinary and satisfying way, in places like those where you live or where you go or that you’re interested in. What’s...
Nov 3, 2017 | Community Engagement, It's cultural!, People, place & governance, Planning, Uncategorized
City of Greater Dandenong ensures outstanding engagement with children. They are committed to Child Friendly Cities and Communities Charter, hold an annual forum with children, and a Children’s Advisory Group makes sure engagement with children is age and...
Apr 4, 2017 | Arts and placemaking, Citizens' juries, Deliberative, It's cultural!
Coming together to think. It’s an important time. Say it’s your family and you own a property in common, and now it looks like time to sell. Say it’s your community and there’s a planning proposal that’s going to affect the amenity of a special place. Say it’s your...
Oct 27, 2015 | Collaborating, Health, It's cultural!, Water
[Setting: Readings Bookshop, Carlton] [Event: Launch of ‘Plastic Water, the social and material life of bottled water’ by Gay Hawkins, Emily Potter and Kane Race, MIT Press, 2015] Emily Potter: Annie is the perfect person to launch this book. She is...
Aug 7, 2015 | Deliberative, It's cultural!, Planning
As a bike rider, I’m impressed by the force of the road. As a designer and facilitator of citizens’ juries, I enjoy thinking about complexity, multiple interests and power. I don’t think there’s a citizens’ jury on the force of the road coming up any time soon. But...
Dec 19, 2013 | Collaborating, It's cultural!
Winding down to the break is fun, crossing off things that need to be done to wrap up the gift of the year 2013! Have a great break. So I’m looking forward to lying low, watching DVDs, eating chocolate and watching the grass grow. I’m a sucker for rock...
