Apr 19, 2016 | Community Engagement, Joint effort - climate adaptation, Planning, Sustainability, Translating the scientific stuff, Walking, Water
Melbourne on the Front Foot! Want Melbourne to be green and healthy into the future? Interested in the built fabric of the city, the magic of planning? Looking for a fun, friendly Saturday afternoon walk? Annie Bolitho facilitates discussion about the ideas...
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...
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...
Feb 24, 2011 | Deliberative, Joint effort - climate adaptation, Translating the scientific stuff
Just read Stuart Brand’s ‘Whole Earth Discipline, an eco-pragmatist manifesto’. Brand was editor of the optimistic, 70s Whole Earth Catalogue. Now he’s back willing to consider radically different alternative alternatives, in the face of...
Oct 15, 2010 | Community Engagement, It's cultural!, Joint effort - climate adaptation, Stakeholder engagement, Translating the scientific stuff
It’s quite difficult to entice a reader into a book about Climate Change – there’s something so leaden and laden about statistics and science and dispute and above all virtue. So I decided humour would have to help me through. – Ian Mackewan on...
Sep 23, 2010 | Community Engagement, Deliberative, Joint effort - climate adaptation, Planning, Sustainability, Translating the scientific stuff
Local Voices continues this week after a conversation with colleague and collaborator Kath Fisher who designed and facilitated this series of forums in regional Victoria. I asked her what she saw as the role of Citizen Climate Juries in our time, when climate issues...
