Dec 3, 2013 | Arts and placemaking, Community Engagement, It's cultural!, Joint effort - climate adaptation, Stakeholder engagement, Sustainability, Tech tools for engagement, Waste
Councils in Melbourne build community support through engagements across many areas of council business. Arts and sustainability for example. The opening of ‘Small Worlds’ exhibition at Footscray Library last week demonstrated Maribyrnong City...
Aug 2, 2013 | Community Engagement, Deliberative, It's cultural!
A month or so I spoke at a great community engagement on Future of Identity. An initiative of the Office of Births, Deaths and Marriages, it was put together by Doing Something Good. With huge changes around identity and social media, the Office wanted to hear from...
May 17, 2013 | Collaborating, Community Engagement, Deliberative, It's cultural!, Planning
Jane Jacobs was a luminary of critical thinking about cities. Her influence can be strongly felt in the city of Melbourne. I’ve joined in the global celebration of her legacy to offer a Melbourne walk on the first weekend of May. There’s something in it for anyone who...
Jul 18, 2012 | Community Engagement, Handmade books, It's cultural!, Translating the scientific stuff
You may have noticed that deliberation often emerges when people are doing things together. Spending time in a car driving to a meeting out of town, participating in a working bee or stuffing envelopes. In a recent workshop, Jade Herriman and I got people cutting and...
Apr 4, 2012 | Deliberative, It's cultural!
Linda Carroli in her PlaceBlog has posted about the possibilities of deliberation for streetscaping. Her question is: Wouldn’t deliberation among people round about be great to get a great result for this site? I’m right with her! A letter from Council...
Jan 7, 2011 | It's cultural!, Joint effort - climate adaptation
I saw this grafitti on a sidewalk in Melbourne as the Brisbane floods were raging. I’ve often looked at those signs swinging in the back windows of cars and felt that it was naive to imagine they have meaning to people in other vehicles. Yet at a time of...
