Sep 4, 2013 | Deliberative, Planning, Stakeholder engagement, Sustainability
Sydney bus drivers and bike riders came together at a workshop devised as the final stage of social research on their experience of road use, as small and manoeuvrable and large less manoeuvrable forms of transportation which travel at very different speeds. Material...
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 24, 2013 | Community Engagement, Deliberative, Stakeholder engagement
IAP2 notified me this week that an abstract I submitted for their annual conference was up on Survey Monkey and I should vote for my preferences in a chosen stream … and because I had an abstract in of course I had to take a look! But once my voting was over I...
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...
Apr 12, 2013 | Community Engagement, Deliberative, People, place & governance, Planning, Stakeholder engagement
New from the blogs …. a great piece from Project for Public Spaces on place governance. “Stronger Citizens, Stronger Cities: Changing Governance Through a Focus on Place” states that some elements that can shape stronger places are: Affirmative...
Jun 6, 2012 | Deliberative
Susie Orbach’s book Towards Emotional Literacy is ‘a conversation with those interested in the relationship between emotional issues and public and private life’. Some musings on public life are: Emotions and Political Literacy, Hysteria Politics,...
