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...
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...
Mar 17, 2015 | Citizens' juries, Health, Translating the scientific stuff
If you lost the wealth of your brain’s services to you … God forbid! as my friend Judy would say, with a tone of voice and look that will dispel dire misfortune now and forever. … If you or your sister or your partner or child lost some of their...
Dec 3, 2013 | Collaborating, Food, Health, People, place & governance, Stakeholder engagement
What kind of change do you see when good stakeholder alliances are at work? A recent Food Alliance gathering heard from Kindling Trust Manchester’s Chris Walsh. He said their alliance has enabled: Generation of detailed technical knowledge and evidence...