Placemaking Education

Is your organisation properly managing #risk? It is easy to gravitate to the smaller, less risky activities, whilst neglecting the biggest risks. The biggest internal risk is a misalignment between the organisation’s purpose and goals and its actions - between what it says it will/wants to do and what it actually does. The second biggest internal risk is that your staff members disengage and/or lose trust in the organisation. A common occurrence, sometimes because it is so difficult to care and do your best. The biggest external risk is that your customers and/or the wider community disengage, stop buying, lose trust or even actively campaign against your organisation. People are the greatest asset that any place has. Their potential disengagement, disconnection and disempowerment is a critical social, political and financial risk. Working with people and finding shared goals can help to mitigate strategic and project risks. Town Team Movement PlacemakingX Patrycja Rosinska Stephen Burton Brooke Williams Harriet McKindlay Stu Speirs Chris Wade FIPM Rik Adamski Jeff Siegler Julian Canny

For my many friends working on local initiatives to boost #socialmobility and improve #neighborhoods, please join this StriveTogether discussion on Monday, November 4. The great Dreama Gentry and Sondra Samuels will share the stage with me, adding their many years of on-the-ground experience to the conversation. I promise lots of practical material. Please contribute questions and join the conversation. You can sign up here - https://lnkd.in/erFBRKf9 Thank you Jennifer Blatz Bridget Jancarz Colin Groth Elizabeth Male for organizing. #collectiveimpact #poverty #education #kids #inequality Stanford Social Innovation Review Placemaking Education Shawn Duncan Carol Naughton David Edwards Danya Pastuszek Sarah Strimmenos Amanda Jamison Dan Baisden Dr. Adriane Johnson-Williams Tate Wilson B. Sutton Mora Aaron Kuecker Tim Soerens Sam Pressler Ron Ivey Frances Kraft De'Amon Harges PlacemakingX Michael Matheson Miller Caleb Whitmer Jason Zylstra Rachel Weaver Ryan Kilpatrick, AICP EDFP Pamela Parriott Rip Rapson Othello Meadows John B. Robert Steuteville Todd Hornback Erin K. Peavey Tim Tompkins David Erickson

What if people were treated as #citizens, not just consumers, voters or taxpayers? Join Jon Alexander to discuss The Citizen Story in a FREE live webinar, rescheduled for 28 November at 4pm (WAST), 7pm (AEDT), 9pm (NZ), 8am (UK). 🌟Jon is author of CITIZENS: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us - a book that seeks to reframe the moment in time we're living in as one of huge civic opportunity, not just crisis and challenges. The result is better, connected communities that have a greater impact. He calls it the #CitizenShift. 👉 Reserve your FREE ticket and get more information at https://lnkd.in/gS_uh8z2 We'll also record the session and send it out to everyone who registers for the session. #actlocal New Citizen Project Centre for Public Impact Town Team Movement Patrycja Rosinska Esther Bliss Seth Kaplan David Engwicht Creative Communities International Dean Cracknell Jimmy Murphy Thea Snow Adrian Brown Keira Lowther Jo Taranto David Galloway Anna Kelderman Fiona Miller Clare Sarah Goodridge Dr Shayne Silcox, PSM Anthony Vuleta Stephen Yarwood Kelly Grigsby Dion Lester

🚨 Big news from Newport News, VA! They’ve just abolished costly minimum parking requirements citywide! 🚀 This makes it the 16th biggest U.S. city to drop parking mandates!

84 examples of community-led #placemaking are featured in Town Team Movement's Book of Doing. Get inspired and see what is possible! It showcases community-led actions to create: 🌳 social and environmental impact 😃 places for people - 🎉 events and activations 🎨 arts and cultural activities From the micro to the massive, local people have driven all these projects. Find out how local authorities have encouraged and enabled them to #makeithappen. Download the Book of Doing to find out more! It's only AUD$10 via https://lnkd.in/gkhAJrhj and *all* funds raised go back into supporting positive community-led doing! The Book of Doing is made possible with the support of RAC WA Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries

Imagine this...paid car parking as a means of bringing a place to life? The visibility of what and where parking revenue goes can often be a grey area. But what if local business, residents and visitors could actually see positive change in an area, just by parking there? What if this parking revenue was made available as grants that were accessible by: 🔹 Community groups, think: collaborating with other organisations in the area to hold a key event around awareness for a cause 🔹 Local businesses, think: improving a shopfront to attract more people to visit you or providing better access to an alfresco space 🔹 Landlords, think: encouraging activities in an empty space so that prospective tenants can see it being used 🔹 Event organisers, think: street parties or markets in an underutilised laneway 🔹 Residents, think: adding some colour to your area, street cricket or holding a neighbourhood party 💡 Local Governments that reinvest paid parking revenue from designated areas directly back into that local community have an opportunity to provide tangible benefits and positive outcomes in these places. Turning a controversial subject or challenge into an opportunity is a great way to connect communities, provide direct economic benefit to an area and support locals to create the change they want to see in their place. If you're interested to know more about this concept, have a look at this article by Douglas Kolozsvari and Donald Shoup, "Turning Small Change into Big Changes" https://lnkd.in/euYQKiuz 🌟 This post is inspired by the City of Melville's recent win at the Minister for Local Government’s Place Innovation Awards, where it took home the award for outstanding achievement related to the Canning Bridge Place Grants program. This program sees the revenue collected from parking fees in the local area used to fund activities and building improvement projects to make the area more attractive and appealing. City of Melville Mainstreet Australia Placemaking Education Economic Development Australia Limited Planning Institute of Australia Pauline Wark Luke Willcock Dean Cracknell Emma Snow Damian Stone Kendell Terrell Patrycja Rosinska Megan Humble Julian Canny Heartbeat Joondalup John Jutras Kylie MacPherson

#Reciprocity. Not the easiest word to say or spell, but one of the key concepts that has guided indigenous cultures for tens of thousands of years. "If I care for my place and the people around me, they will care for me." Reciprocity is something for us to relearn and practice. Giving back and helping your community is a great way to benefit yourself and your family. The graphic below outlines some personal benefits you can get by being involved. At the individual level, Dr. Tyler Van der Weele, a distinguished figure in epidemiology and the study of human #flourishing, has found that our personal well-being is partly defined by our participation in the common good, meaning that the wellbeing of our community is an integral part of our own flourishing. "At an individual level, practices like gratitude, physical exercise, and moral character are important for happiness and health. However, for broader flourishing, which includes aspects like meaning, purpose, character development, and relationships, we need more than just positive physiological and psychology exercises. We need embeddedness in communities, institutions, and long-term relational commitments." You don't have to solve the world's problems. What is one thing you care enough about to act on? Start small, connect with others and have a go. You might help your community and also help yourself. Seth Kaplan Fiona Miller Clare Sarah Goodridge David Engwicht 🍎 Lisa Brassington (MPIA) Krista Nightengale Caroline Robinson Courtney Strow Emma Watton Elle Pound Mike Fisher Ethan Kent Jimmy Murphy Kendell Terrell Emma Snow Patrycja Rosinska Mathilde Riou Emma Everett Kylie Murphy

Imagine a world where every institution, whether within the spheres of commerce, government, or civil society, had an active policy to reduce unilateral dependence on their service, by increasing interdependence in community life, with services playing a supplementary role. #ABCD

The feedback from #localgovernments on the Creating Great Places: making it happen in local governments online course has been fantastic! 💯 The average course rating is 8.9 out of 10 ✅ 92% say it is easy to use 🧨 94% say they'd recommend it to others Incredibly, 43% of local governments have already made policy or process changes as a result of taking the course, with another 30% considering changes. This is the kind of impact we love to see! Some of the feedback includes: 🎉 “We have started looking for ways to work collaboratively with community, doing ‘with’ them, not ‘for’ them”.” ☑️ "I started this course to 'tick a box' as I felt I had an understanding of placemaking already, but this course was like a whole 'lightbulb' moment for me. Very inspiring. Less thinking about it, more doing!" 🪩 "A fantastic resource. Full of inspiration, ideas and tips on making placemaking happen in local government from people who clearly understand the trials and tribulations of the sector. Working through the lessons/modules was easy to do at my own pace. Highly recommended." 💡 "Fantastic course and a must do for anyone who works in or with Local Government." Save #time and reduce #risks by taking the Creating great places: making it happen in local governments online course. Learn at your own pace, when you want. Find out more at https://lnkd.in/gJvFTka8 Placemaking Education is a collaboration between Town Team Movement and PlacemakingX to accelerate the growth of the #placemaking movement and enable local impact. Emma Snow Jimmy Murphy Dean Cracknell David Engwicht Ethan Kent Peter Smith LG Professionals WA Municipal Association of Victoria Kelly Grigsby Lucinda Hartley Brooke Williams Harriet McKindlay Valli Morphett Cam Perkins Samantha Choudhury Brooke Wharton Economic Development Australia Limited Jason McFarlane Rik Adamski Cam Perkins PlacemakingUS Placemaking Canada Place Collective UK Michelle Tucker Colin Bass Sam Johnson OAM GAICD Leanne Hurst