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As Town Team Movement’s Consulting Lead and Executive Director, Emma helps communities imagine what’s possible, and then roll up their sleeves to make it happen.\n","text":"If you’ve ever met Emma, you’ll know that she brings the same thoughtful curiosity to her work as she does to a walk through the bush or a Wes Anderson film. As Town Team Movement’s Consulting Lead and Executive Director, Emma helps communities imagine what’s possible, and then roll up their sleeves to make it happen."},"content":{"text":"Emma’s journey into placemaking started close to home, helping to form one of the first town teams, Creative Maylands. From there, her passion for grassroots collaboration only grew. She went on to co-found Perth SOUP, the city’s first micro-grant funding dinner, creating a space where people could connect over a meal and back local ideas that make a difference.\n\nWith over 20 years of experience working where people and place meet, Emma has helped shape countless community-driven projects- from strategic urban planning to hands-on place activation. Her approach is grounded, creative, and always community-first.\n\nWhen she’s not co-creating local change, you might find Emma outdoors, recharging in nature, or revisiting one of her favourite films, Rushmore. Like its quirky, heartfelt characters, Emma sees the world through a lens of possibility where creativity, connection, and care for place can turn any idea into something lasting.\n\nHer favourite quote:\n\n“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination encircles the world”. ~Albert Einstein"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"If you’ve ever met Emma, you’ll know that she brings the same thoughtful curiosity to her work as she does to a walk through the bush or a Wes Anderson film. 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Of yourself?\n","text":"What is the best version of Town Team Movement? Of yourself?"},"content":{"text":"Conventional organisational thinking and structures cannot even hope to answer those questions. Teal can. We have committed to a journey towards Teal.\n\nA Teal organisation is one that’s free of micro-managers, an organisation of equals.\n\nBut, it’s not hippies smoking peace pipes, we’re positive change agents on a mission to make a difference in the world, to help people, to make things better. We are accountable to each other and the broader movement that we hope to inspire and nurture.\n\nA ‘Teal organisation’ is a term coined by Frederic Laloux in his book “Reinventing Organisations.” Teal aims to break free from traditional leadership and’ management approaches and hierarchies to create more adaptive, self-organising, and purpose-driven workplaces. It is inspired by the ‘self-actualising’ stage of Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.\n\n#### **“Self-management creates enormous motivation and energy. We stop working for a boss and start working to meet our inner standards, which tend to be much higher and more demanding”.**\n\nReinventing Organisation\n\nTeal can help us to be purposeful, as well as effective.\n\nThe traditional ways of running an organisation don’t make sense to us. It infringes on our values, our belief in the power of individual and collective agency, how people should treat and work with others, the purpose of work and life.\n\nTeal helps us to practice what we teach others. It helps us to walk the talk. We want a workplace where we can be excited about delivering on our shared goals, have fun, with serious intent and strive to be better versions of ourself. Teal is the operating system needed for individual and collective flourishing at TTM.\n\n#### **“In bossless organisations, we need more leadership, not less.”**\n\nCorporate Rebels\n\nWe don’t believe in the myth of the hero leader, the single person who can save us or lead us to a better future. Leadership is a contribution, not a position in a hierarchy. Everyone can make leadership contributions.\n\nFor example – Martin Luther King would never have made his pivotal “I have a dream …” speech if it wasn’t for his friend Mahalia Jackson calling out from the crowd “Tell ‘em about the dream, Martin”. This was the encouragement he needed to move from a stumbling, rambling speech to one of the most famous speeches of all time, one that electrified the world.\n\nSometimes people don’t believe they have anything to offer. Sometimes leadership is hidden. Leadership contributions need to be encouraged, they need to be drawn out and the right culture created to allow them to flourish. We want to create a culture where leadership is distributed and multiplies, rather than residing in a few louder, confident or charismatic people. Positive change requires leadership contributions from all of us.\n\nWe’re on a journey towards Teal. And we’d love your support!"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"What is the best version of Town Team Movement? 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Project for Public Spaces (PPS) began consistently using the term placemaking in the mid-1990s to describe its innovative people-and-place-based approach. It was informed by the work of placemaking pioneers like Jane Jacobs and William Whyte, who introduced groundbreaking ideas on the social and cultural importance of lively neighborhoods and inviting public spaces.\n","text":"**Every place is different**, but there are some important common ingredients for creating a great public space. Project for Public Spaces (PPS) began consistently using the term placemaking in the mid-1990s to describe its innovative people-and-place-based approach. It was informed by the work of placemaking pioneers like Jane Jacobs and William Whyte, who introduced groundbreaking ideas on the social and cultural importance of lively neighborhoods and inviting public spaces."},"content":{"text":"In evaluating thousands of public spaces around the world, PPS found that to be successful, they generally share the following four qualities:\n\n1. they are accessible\n2. people are engaged in activities there\n3. the space is comfortable and has a good image;\n4. it is a sociable place: one where people meet each other and take people when they come to visit.\n\nAnother thing we’d add to this list is people who care for and look after the space. This could range from informal care, like picking up a piece of rubbish, or professional care like place management, cleaning, maintenance etc. Even the most beautiful and well designed space soon feels neglected if there are no professionals and/or local people to care for it.\n\nThe graphic above shows some of the important ingredients of great places, as judged by everyday people all around the world. Thanks to the ACT Government for providing this photo of the Dickson Shops in Canberra, Australia.\n\nLearn more about the need for and how to improve public spaces and create more connected, resilient neighbourhoods at [www.placemaking.education](https://placemaking.education/)."},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Every place is different, but there are some important common ingredients for creating a great public space. 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It holds that the corresponding role of governments and leaders is to channel that self-interest and make it add up to the collective interest. It asserts that this will result in the best outcomes possible, because humans — Consumers — are inherently and inevitably self-interested.\n","text":"### The Consumer Story\n\nThis story positions the role of individuals as being to pursue self-interest, choosing the best option from those that are offered. It holds that the corresponding role of governments and leaders is to channel that self-interest and make it add up to the collective interest. It asserts that this will result in the best outcomes possible, because humans — Consumers — are inherently and inevitably self-interested."},"content":{"text":"The Consumer Story, amplified by media and advertising. subtly encourages us to outsource care and responsibility. When problems arise, the reflex is often: someone else should fix this. Government becomes the default problem-solver, and citizens become consumers.\n\nThe Consumer Story smothers the historical memories that there are other stories to live by. It causes people to lose their own agency and erodes their capacity to self-organise. \n\nAs civic participation has declined, governments and institutions have stepped in to fill the void. In doing so, they have unintentionally reinforced passive civic behaviours by positioning communities as recipients of services, rather than co-contributors to solutions. \n\nThis creates a self-reinforcing loop: reduced participation drives greater institutional control, which further erodes community capacity, confidence and initiative. As expectations of government have risen and they have taken on more and more responsibilities, trust in institutions and political leaders has paradoxically fallen. People feel frustrated, left out, and unheard. \n\n### The Subject Story\n\nIt’s tempting for disengaged and disempowered citizens to start looking for alternatives, which feeds political extremism. On the right we are seeing the rise of Fascism and Trumpism. On the left, we see charismatic leaders promising simple solutions to complex problems. Jon Alexander calls this the ‘Subject Story’. It suggests that a strong leader will protect and guide us. People should keep their heads down, and do as they are told, like an obedient subject. \n<ImageAsset id=\"69b0a6e6c425e73606ae95c2\" />\nSource: ‘[Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us](https://jonalexander.net/)’, by Jon Alexander\n\nOver time, top-down approaches further erode trust and confidence. Governments are continually attacked and criticised, often because of who is doing it (governments) and how they are doing (via top-down, non-participatory means), rather than purely what is happening.\n\nBureaucracies become even more risk averse, defensive, reactionary. Risk management processes, compliance and red tape increase, which add additional barriers to civic participation. Well-meaning regulations can fix a single issue, but often exacerbate these bigger risks.\n\n#### **The first part of our hypothesis is that top-down government approaches and passive civic behaviours are mutually reinforcing.** \n<ImageAsset id=\"69b0a768c425e73606ae95c5\" />\n\nThis negative spiral downwards is not sustainable in a democracy. It has significant political, financial and societal costs and feeds the frustration and anger in the community. Local initiatives are stifled or never even started as local action becomes ‘too hard’. That instinct is reinforced by the system itself. Navigating bureaucracy, securing approvals, managing risk and insurance — these are complex and time-consuming processes. For many, participation feels difficult, even futile.\n\n### **The Citizen Story and the Democracy of Doing**\n\nAs social, economic and environmental crises build in scale and intensity, we’re seeing a shift in people’s minds. The pendulum is shifting back towards the more positive and creative Citizen Story. This isn’t a new story; it’s a renaissance of the traditions of how communities have operated across many cultures for centuries. \n\nLocal people are the heroes of this story, contributing their ideas, energy and resources to shape better outcomes.\n\n#### **The second part of our hypothesis is that the solutions are also mutually reinforcing.**\n\nGovernments that deliver essential services, *as well as* enable others to act, will help to facilitate the rise of active citizenship and the re-emergence of civil society as a positive force. We call this the ‘Democracy of Doing’.\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b0a7e7c425e73606ae95c8\" />\n\nThe Democracy of Doing promotes the idea that democracy is based on a person’s relationship to the society around them, not just their relationship to governments and institutions. Democracy should be able to be lived every day, rather than being confined to the ballot box.\n\nIt moves beyond political representation and well-meaning consultation to co-production and collaborative action, where citizens and civil society groups are active participants in the planning, design, delivery, and management of their communities. To be effective, it relies on two essential ingredients: relationships and trust. \n\n[Research](https://trustforciviclife.org/six-key-findings-from-our-new-action-over-dialogue-report/) shows that relationships and trust are best developed by working on real projects together, which is why collaborative action is so important. \n\nWestern Australia is leading the way on this innovative approach. Here are two local examples of the Democracy of Doing in action: \n\n1. The Western Australian Government’s Streets Alive Program\n2. The Town Team approach, which emerged in and with the City of Vincent\n\n### 1 – **Streets Alive: Creating safer streets through community-based action** \n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b0a846c425e73606ae95cb\" />\n\nThe road death toll [continues to rise](https://www.aaa.asn.au/2026/01/road-safety-strategy-delivers-worst-road-deaths-run-since-1950s/) across Australia, despite the best efforts of and significant investments by Federal, State and local governments. \n\nReducing speed limits is one of the fastest, most effective and least expensive ways to save lives on our roads, Research shows that lower traffic speeds reduce crashes, improve health outcomes, increase neighbourhood amenity, boost social connections and are better for [local businesses](https://www.healthyactivebydesign.com.au/resources/publications_and_policies). Austroads has also released [a report](https://austroads.gov.au/publications/road-safety/ap-r754-26) on the clear economic case for reducing speeds on urban streets.\n\nBut, reducing vehicle speeds often gets resisted by some in the community. Projects struggle to build the necessary local support due to a lack of understanding or a cynicism that reducing speed limits is just about raising revenue. \n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b0a896c425e73606ae95ce\" />\nExcerpt from[ ‘Perth Now – Western Suburbs’ News Article](https://www.perthnow.com.au/wa/perth/central/western-suburbs/city-of-nedlands-scraps-300k-in-federal-funding-for-13-new-speed-bumps-after-local-residents-voice-concerns-c-14246647)\n\nOther residents and businesses recognise the need for safety and amenity improvements, but have few avenues to act beyond lobbying their local authority.\n\nThe combined lack of community support, understanding, agency and trust makes it difficult for government decision-makers to make the necessary changes. So, the road toll continues to rise.\n\nAt a delivery level, local authorities need permission from Main Roads Western Australia, a State Government agency, for changes to local roads. Historically, it has adopted a risk-averse and traffic-movement-focused approach, and has been concerned about the potential of community backlash to speed reductions or traffic calming. Whilst this position is evolving, the combination of caution and regulatory rigidity has constrained the pace and scale of local safety improvements. Forward-thinking change is needed to improve road safety outcomes. \n\n**How does the Streets Alive Model work?**\n\n[Streets Alive](https://streetsalive.org.au/) is a community-led funding and capacity building program delivered by non-profit social enterprise Town Team Movement, in partnership with Main Roads WA. \n\nThe program provides $5 million over 5 years (2023 – 2028), distributed through smaller seed grants of up to $10,000 and larger traffic calming intervention grants of up to $100,000. With an eye to long term sustainability, the program also provides ongoing capacity building to help local governments and communities deliver collaborative projects that slow traffic and make local roads safer, more vibrant and people-friendly.\n\nThe program is managed by Town Team Movement, in conjunction with an advisory committee that includes the WA Local Government Association, the Department of Transport and Major Infrastructure and Main Roads WA. \n\nStreets Alive has four key objectives: \n\n1. Build local capability and capacity to deliver road safety initiatives \n2. Shift attitudes and behaviours towards safe speeds \n3. Improve the design and safety of local streets \n4. Trial a collaborative, scalable model of co-delivery between communities and local governments \n\nThe program responds to the need for community-driven solutions that reduce vehicle speeds, strengthen local involvement and improve safety outcomes. \n\n*“Local governments across WA are committed to creating safer, healthier and more liveable communities. Programs like Streets Alive play an essential role in empowering local residents, volunteers, town teams and councils to co-design safer public spaces. This program strengthens community ownership of road safety, builds local capability, and supports practical, low cost interventions that reduce speeds, shift behaviour and protect lives. Our members consistently report that community-led, place-based approaches to safety receive far greater buy- in and achieve more enduring change than top-down interventions.”*\n\nStacey Hutt, CEO, LG Professionals WA\n\nStreets Alive project staff provide tailored, practical project support and training in both the Perth metropolitan area and across regional WA. This includes:\n\n- Coordinating support meetings between community members and local governments\n- Site visits \n- Training on how to collaborate, best practices and design guidance\n- Helping people to navigate local government policies \n- Providing relevant resources and online training\n\nStreets Alive staff can help to manage issues, work through tensions and improve processes to help projects get implemented. They proactively help local governments to understand and utilise collaborative approaches.\n\n**Streets Alive Outcomes & Impact (so far)**\n\nLocal governments have benefitted from strengthening existing, and forming new, collaborative relationships with their residents, local community groups, and business owners. They are equipped with new tools and models to help future community engagement processes. \n\nCommunity groups are feeling more capable and confident in working with their local governments, particularly as bureaucratic barriers are being removed (or reduced). Trust and relationships are being developed. \n\nThe broader community has been more receptive to projects led by or that involve local people. The bottom-up approach reduces cynicism and potential mistrust of the motives of distant authorities. It helps to create a broader level of support and a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the value of slower and safer streets. \n\nMost importantly, there are positive road safety results. To date, over 100 projects have been completed to advocate for and/or slow traffic. The evidence speaks for itself. \n\n- Several speed limit reductions approved and implemented through Streets Alive projects, including 20km/h in central Fremantle; 40km/h school zone in Kardinya, 40km/h in the Brookton town centre; 40km/hour area wide in Joondalup\n- Grant recipients have reported shifts in driver behaviour across 85% of project teams\n- Approximately one-third of completed projects focused on school-precinct safety, a focus area for authorities and local schools \n- 4,800 people have completed a Streets Alive road safety training and education program. 94% of applicants have rated the program support at least 4 out of 5, which is excellent\n- More than 4,100 volunteers have been involved, and government authorities are becoming more experienced in co-design and co-delivery projects\n- Over $1 million in additional government funding has been committed for road crossings and speed-limit changes as a result of the Streets Alive program\n\nMindsets and processes are shifting as a result of the program. \n\n*“In Vincent, we have seen first-hand how Streets Alive enables neighbourhoods to lead the conversation about safer speeds and more liveable streets. These projects don’t just install temporary (and permanent) treatments – they create advocates, lift community capability, and build long-term cultural change around how people move.”*\n\nCity of Vincent Chief Executive Officer, David MacLennan\n\nThe program’s greatest challenge has been overwhelming demand. In the first two years, 202 grant applications sought $6.8 million from a funding pool of less than $1.8 million; only one in four projects could be supported. In response to this strong uptake and demonstrated impact, additional State Government funding has been sought for 2026–27.\n\nAddressing road safety and safer speeds is a complex challenge and requires a multi-disciplinary approach, with support, trust and collaboration from all layers of government and the community. \n\nStreets Alive, supported by state and local governments, provides the opportunity for communities to get involved with solving the complex, seemingly intractable challenge of road fatalities. Local people have made it clear that they really care and want to contribute to making their neighbourhoods, and by extension, all of us, safer.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b0a8f6c425e73606ae95d1\" />\n\nThese reflections from local ‘doers’ demonstrate the passion and commitment that Streets Alive unlocks.\n\n“*One of the most notable shifts has been the increased awareness of road safety issues. Residents, drivers, and pedestrians became more engaged with the idea that road safety is a shared responsibility*.” \n\nCundarin Community Resource Centre\n\n“*The Monger Street Safety Initiative is more than just an infrastructure project; it represents a collaborative effort to improve public spaces, enhance safety, and foster a thriving community. By involving local governments, community groups, residents, and businesses in the planning, funding, and evaluation stages, the initiative ensures that the needs and desires of the community are at the heart of the project.”* \n\nBencubbin Community Resource Centre\n\n*“The Miami Village Heart project demonstrated that place enrichment is only possible through collective efforts. By overcoming challenges together, the South Mandurah community created a safer, more vibrant precinct and established a lasting legacy of collaboration and pride. The mantra, “It takes a village,” perfectly captures the spirit of the project and its transformative impact.”* \n\nCity of Mandurah, grant recipient\n\nStreets Alive has put the ‘Democracy of Doing’ to the test. The outcomes and impact reporting data prove it works. The techniques used have built greater understanding, developed trust and improved relationships in and between both government authorities and local communities. \n\nThis approach can be replicated and applied to help address other large-scale, complex policy challenges. \n\n### 2 – **Town Teams**: **Local people and local governments working together**\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b0a933c425e73606ae95d4\" />\n\nThe City of Vincent was rated the [second most liveable area](https://placescore.org/liveability-platform/#liveability-census) in Australia in 2025. But 20 years ago, it was a very different story. The area’s town centres were struggling with a high number of shop vacancies, anti-social behaviour and a lack of civic pride. With no visible momentum for change, the community was disengaged. \n\nBeaufort Street in Highgate and Mount Lawley was one of those struggling town centres. In 2007, a local resident, John Carey saw the potential and ran in the local council election. He was unsuccessful, but undeterred. He called a meeting that drew around 50 local businesses and residents. Together, they identified immediate actions to revitalise the street, including shop window displays, public art and a street festival. They called themselves the Beaufort Street Network and became Australia’s first ‘Town Team’; a group of businesses and residents working positively and proactively to improve their place.\n\nThe Network built momentum and support. It completed dozens of actions to improve the precinct, including launching Australia’s first-ever community-led Place Action Plan, art markets, three editions of a community-sourced recipe book, events, performances, the greening of streets and an annual dog show. Its one-day street festival grew to an annual event attracting over 120,000 each year. \n\nThe efforts of one community, on one street helped to spark an entire movement. Local people in surrounding suburbs were inspired by this citizen-led approach to making places better. Informal and formal Town Teams began to form across the City of Vincent and other suburbs in Perth. A very loose network began to form. \n\nThese new groups established markets, commissioned art projects, hosted progressive and long-table dinners, improved lighting, seating, parks and community gardens. One group, Inglewood on Beaufort, worked with landowners and their local government to convert a piece of private land into a community park, using money raised from hosting markets.\n\nIn parallel, the City of Vincent began to see the potential of this to complement its work. It introduced a Place Management Program in 2014 to foster a ‘people-and-place-led’ culture. This shift was led and supported across all levels of the organisation, from Elected Councillors to senior executives and officers across different departments. \n\nThe proactive, collaborative approach of the City of Vincent and the work of local Town Teams and community groups became mutually reinforcing.\n\nThis fresh way of thinking and working was supercharged in 2018 with the launch of [Town Team Movement](https://www.townteammovement.com/about/), created to help local volunteers (we call them doers) and changemakers working in governments, non-profits and businesses. Our 4 main activities as an organisation are:\n\n1. Inspire, support, connect and promote Town Teams\n2. Provide innovative consulting services\n3. Work with positive partners, such as Main Roads WA\n4. Deliver in-person and online training on placemaking and community-building\n\nThere are now over 180 registered Town Teams, 150 of which are in Western Australia. There are also teams in each state, as well as New Zealand, Poland, United Kingdom and the United States. They do different things in their own place, but are all connected by the common [Town Team Charter](https://www.townteammovement.com/town-teams/). It’s a movement of local doers.\n\nAnna Kelderman, a leader at Leederville Connect, is one of them. \n\n*“Initially, our focus was on creating vibrant experiences, activations, and lively events. However, our perspective gradually expanded. We developed the Leederville narrative, delving into the physical representation of our town, our broader community. Later, our emphasis shifted to social infrastructure, emphasising inclusivity, safety, and sustainability. We’re not just a friendly place, we are actively participating in accessibility, supporting homelessness in Leederville, and trying to create a space to have conversations about societal aspects that affect communities that are part of our locality.”*\n\n[Anna Kelderman](https://www.townteammovement.com/doers/), Leederville Connect\n\nAndrew Kailis is a local doer with The Pickle District Town Team in West Perth.\n\n*“Our motto is “making places for art to happen”. Mine is a social connection. When I first started, I didn’t know anyone in the area. It was about connecting with all the creative businesses here and collaborating. I discovered the Town Team Movement in 2017, and with their help, it grew from there.”*\n\n[Andrew Kailis](https://www.townteammovement.com/doers/), The Pickle District\n\nThe City of Vincent, its 6 local Town Teams and local communities collaborated to:\n\n- Create tree-lined streets and leafy parks that invite people to slow down\n- Support independent cafés, creative small bars and local shops \n- Curate a thriving arts scene and vibrant community events that bring people together\n- Encourage walkable and bike-friendly neighbourhoods\n\nSharing responsibilities and collaborative action over a long period of time are the secret ingredients to creating the second most liveable area in Australia in 2025.\n\n### **‘Citizening’: the Rise of the Citizen Story** \n\nThe best asset of any place is connected and motivated local people, working collaboratively with governments to improve their community. \n\nPioneering American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead insightfully said that: \n\n*“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world, indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.”*\n\nThe Democracy of Doing proposes that people should be able to shape their communities by what they ***do\\***, not just by how they ***spend\\*** or who they ***vote\\*** for.\n\nTown Team Movement’s work has highlighted an exceptional opportunity. When local people are encouraged, they contribute their ideas, energy and resources. People start to ‘citizen’. The term ‘citizen’ can be an action or a practice, not just a status, says Jon Alexander. We agree.\n\nThe Democracy of Doing creates and supports a virtuous upwards spiral. Citizening helps civic and community confidence, capacity and initiative to increase. This leads to higher levels of trust, improved social and economic outcomes and fairer expectations of governments. \n\nBest of all, it’s an idea that’s very ‘doable’ and can be tailored to suit various contexts and situations. \n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Climate Change. Loneliness. Depression. Suicide. Housing Affordability. Homelessness.\nWe live in an era of growing crises, and they are too big, too complex and too numerous for governments to be able to solve alone.\nHumans are storytelling, and crucially, also story-dwelling creatures, says British author Jon Alexander in his book Citizens. We need stories to live by. To tell us who to collaborate with. What to create and who to care about. Alexander convincingly argues that the story we live by today — the story we are trapped in — is the ‘Consumer Story‘.\nThe Consumer Story, amplified by media and advertising, subtly encourages us to outsource care and responsibility. When problems arise, the reflex is often: someone else should fix this. Government becomes the default problem-solver, and citizens become consumers. This creates a self-reinforcing loop: reduced participation drives greater institutional control, which further erodes community capacity, confidence and initiative. Top-down government approaches and passive civic behaviours are mutually reinforcing.\nAs social, economic and environmental crises build in scale and intensity, we’re seeing a shift in people’s minds. The pendulum is shifting back towards the more positive and creative ‘Citizen Story‘. This isn’t a new story; it’s a renaissance of the traditions of how communities have operated across many cultures for centuries.\nThe Democracy of Doing proposes that people can shape their communities by what they do, not just by how they spend\\ or who they vote for. 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As a placemaker and urban planner, Dave helps people uncover what’s possible in their neighbourhoods and works alongside them to turn ideas into tangible, lasting change. \n\nDave’s path into placemaking is grounded in a simple belief: great places are made by local doers. With a postgraduate degree in Urban Design and a career spent partnering with local governments and communities across Australia, he has contributed to projects in settings ranging from vibrant city centres to some of the country’s most remote towns. His approach is practical, people-first, and deeply rooted in fostering culture and connection.\n\nOutside of work, Dave’s creativity continues to shine. He’s a devoted fan of jazz, early house jazz, and a proponent of the Balearic movement, he not only loves these genres, but actively shares as a DJ at local Fremantle venues and events. His time spent exploring his local record shop or crafting a set mirrors his approach to placemaking: thoughtful, playful, and always tuned into the rhythm of community.\n\nAt home, Dave can often be found mid-game of chasey with his son, bringing the same joy, curiosity, and grounded presence that shape both his work and his everyday life."},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Place &amp; Collaboration Enabler\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1773185951/doing-collective/banner/dave-snyder-banner_image__Dave_Snyder_mphlrc.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1773185951/doing-collective/banner/dave-snyder-banner_image__Dave_Snyder_mphlrc.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1773185951/doing-collective/banner/dave-snyder-banner_image__Dave_Snyder_mphlrc.jpg"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1773185951/doing-collective/banner/dave-snyder-banner_image__Dave_Snyder_mphlrc.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1773185951/doing-collective/banner/dave-snyder-banner_image__Dave_Snyder_mphlrc.jpg"}}}},"type":{"id":"69f82d7fdd6cda552a6bed8d","name":"Doer Profile","slug":"doer-profile","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2025-12-08T00:00:00.00","authors":[]},{"id":"69b0acfcc425e73606ae95f7","name":"Streets Alive Stream 2 Grant","path":"/posts/streets-alive-stream-2-grant","slug":"streets-alive-stream-2-grant","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"Up to $100,000 funding applications now open\n","text":"**Up to $100,000 funding applications now open**"},"content":{"text":"The Streets Alive Grant Program has the goal of creating vibrant, safe, and connected communities where empowered citizens are engaged in the planning and transformation of their local streets, making them inclusive places where people of all ages and abilities feel safe and welcome to walk, ride, wheel, play or drive around their neighbourhood.\n\n[Read our eligibility and guidelines](https://streetsalive.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/STREETS-ALIVE_STREAM2_GUIDELINES.pdf) and submit your street calming project ideas by Monday, October 7, 2024.\n\nWe will be hosting the [**Streets Alive Stream 2 Webinar**,](https://events.humanitix.com/streets-alive-stream-2-information-webinar) via Zoom, on Thursday, 5 September 2024. Please register your attendance on Humanitix.\n\nHear about:\n\n- How to apply for a Streets Alive Stream 2 grant\n- Grant eligibility, criteria and guidelines\n- Share project ideas\n- Where to access more resources\n- Why placemaking is relevant and important for all local governments and communities\n\n \n\nTown Team Movement, in partnership with the State Government and the Western Australian Local Government Association (WALGA), are proud to be working together to deliver the Streets Alive program.\n\nThis program is funded from the State Funds for Local Government Roads and consists of $5 million over 5 years for capacity building and support for eligible community organisations and local governments to deliver projects designed to calm traffic on local roads across WA."},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Up to $100,000 funding applications now open\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1773186189/doing-collective/banner/streets-alive-grant-2-banner_image__Streets_alive_grant_2_banner_onx6wq.png","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1773186189/doing-collective/banner/streets-alive-grant-2-banner_image__Streets_alive_grant_2_banner_onx6wq.png","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1773186189/doing-collective/banner/streets-alive-grant-2-banner_image__Streets_alive_grant_2_banner_onx6wq.png"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1773186189/doing-collective/banner/streets-alive-grant-2-banner_image__Streets_alive_grant_2_banner_onx6wq.png","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1773186189/doing-collective/banner/streets-alive-grant-2-banner_image__Streets_alive_grant_2_banner_onx6wq.png"}}}},"type":{"id":"69f82d67dd6cda552a6bed84","name":"News","slug":"news","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2024-06-07T00:00:00.00","authors":[]},{"id":"69b0ae99c425e73606ae9604","name":"2024 TTM People, Place and Planet Conference","path":"/posts/2024-ttm-people-place-and-planet-conference","slug":"2024-ttm-people-place-and-planet-conference","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"Event Details\n","text":"**Event Details**"},"content":{"text":"The 2024 People, Place and Planet Conference theme is Take a Chance and the event will focus on creating successful places with the community. The event is scheduled to take place on 12 and 13 September 2024 in Northam.\n\nThe Town Team event is more than just a talk fest. It’s about living and embodying the Town Team and placemaking principles through immersive experience. It’s about learning through doing and inviting and inspiring community members and professionals to take action. It’s about being and doing place rather than simply talking about Place.\n\nWe aim to continue our conversation and meaningful action in 2024 exploring the theme of TAKE A CHANCE.\n\nThe event will be packed with hands-on activities, networking and ideas exchange opportunities, amazing presentations and of course famous after party! It also will be a great opportunity to explore beautiful and full of history, culture and surprises Wheatbelt region!\n\nExpressions of Interest – Speakers\nWe are now accepting expressions of interest for speakers and presenters at our Take a Chance: 2024 People, Place and Planet Conference – creating successful places with the community!\n\nTo be a part of the 2024 event please submit a proposal for presentation, workshop or activation via our link [here.](https://forms.gle/wc3BJAuYk46ZMwZA7)\n\nMore information, tickets, keynotes and speaker list to be announced shortly.\n\nSee you in Northam!"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Event Details\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1773186674/doing-collective/banner/2024-ttm-people-place-and-planet-conference-banner_image__2024_TTM_People_Place_and_Planet_Conference_banner_iiv3zr.png","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1773186674/doing-collective/banner/2024-ttm-people-place-and-planet-conference-banner_image__2024_TTM_People_Place_and_Planet_Conference_banner_iiv3zr.png","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1773186674/doing-collective/banner/2024-ttm-people-place-and-planet-conference-banner_image__2024_TTM_People_Place_and_Planet_Conference_banner_iiv3zr.png"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1773186674/doing-collective/banner/2024-ttm-people-place-and-planet-conference-banner_image__2024_TTM_People_Place_and_Planet_Conference_banner_iiv3zr.png","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1773186674/doing-collective/banner/2024-ttm-people-place-and-planet-conference-banner_image__2024_TTM_People_Place_and_Planet_Conference_banner_iiv3zr.png"}}}},"type":{"id":"69f82d1bdd6cda552a6bed70","name":"Event","slug":"event","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2024-06-07T00:00:00.00","authors":[]},{"id":"69b0af7cc425e73606ae960f","name":"Collective Flourishing","path":"/posts/collective-flourishing","slug":"collective-flourishing","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"","text":""},"content":{"text":"Clare is an international expert on flow theory and human flourishing. When individuals flourish, they bring energy, creativity, and productivity into their communities. In turn, a flourishing community provides a supportive environment where individuals can thrive, creating a virtuous cycle that contributes to the greater good.\n\nShe has developed new science-based, learning modules and programs with experts, tested them with leaders and is now ready to share it with the world.\n\nJimmy Murphy and Dean Cracknell are founders of Town Team Movement and have seen the virtuous cycle in action through the work with local Town Team doers and [placemaking](https://placemaking.education/).\n\nJoin us for this webinar to see what they have discovered and are creating, and what this might mean for you and our world!\n\nTuesday 7 May 2024\n12.00pm WA\n2.00pm AEST\n4.00pm NZ\n\nIt’s FREE, but RSVPs are essential via –[ https://events.humanitix.com/collective-flourishing-webinar](https://events.humanitix.com/collective-flourishing-webinar)"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Clare is an international expert on flow theory and human flourishing. 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And it’s only $50 per person for local government officers outside WA.\n\nThe topics covered in Week 1 include:\n\n* What is placemaking?\n* Why is placemaking important for local governments?\n* What makes a great place?\n* Shifting from doing FOR to doing WITH communities\n* Turning problems into opportunities\n* Placemaking as a way to mitigate strategic and project risks\n* How placemaking differs from standard practices\n* The economic, environmental and social benefits of placemaking"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Our third Placemaking: making it happen in local governments Group Learning Sessions begin on Wed 10 April 2024. 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The project is repeatable, transferrable and develops a can-do attitude amongst those involved.’\n\n‘This project is an inspiration to regional communities struggling to entertain and retain young people and marginalised communities; placing youth in the centre of community and decision making to build meaningful civic engagement.’\n\n‘The health and wellbeing benefits of an engaged youth in the community cannot be underestimated in the overall health and wellbeing of a community, longer term retention of families, and safe, secure places. The project sees youth from predominantly Indigenous background at the centre, delivering tangible long-term outcomes through co-design and co-delivery, and providing a springboard to ongoing volunteerism, community leadership and ownership of place.’\n\n‘This project illustrates how centering everyday people can deliver outstanding and lasting social outcomes for the community.’\n\nRead more about the South Hedland Aboriginal youth placemaking project at [www.townteammovement.com/placemaking-by-aboriginal-youth/](https://www.townteammovement.com/placemaking-by-aboriginal-youth/).\n\nWe would like to thank our partners [RAC WA](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rac-wa/) (who took out four awards on the night! Congratulations RAC you are the ultimate community enablers in this space!) [Town of Port Hedland](https://www.linkedin.com/company/town-of-port-hedland/), [FOLLOW THE DREAM FOUNDATION](https://www.linkedin.com/company/follow-the-dream-foundation/)[Kariyarra Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kariyarra-aboriginal-corporation-rntbc/), activate south Hedland town team and [The Shire of Trayning](https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-shire-of-trayning/) and everyone else involved for making it happen!"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"They were collaborative projects that focused on enabling and empowering young people to play a key role in creating public places and building a sense of pride, belonging and ownership within the community.\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1773189972/doing-collective/banner/two-youth-placemaking-projects-win-awards-banner_image__Two_youth_placemaking_projects_win_awards_jifzug.jpg","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1773189972/doing-collective/banner/two-youth-placemaking-projects-win-awards-banner_image__Two_youth_placemaking_projects_win_awards_jifzug.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1773189972/doing-collective/banner/two-youth-placemaking-projects-win-awards-banner_image__Two_youth_placemaking_projects_win_awards_jifzug.jpg"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1773189972/doing-collective/banner/two-youth-placemaking-projects-win-awards-banner_image__Two_youth_placemaking_projects_win_awards_jifzug.jpg","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1773189972/doing-collective/banner/two-youth-placemaking-projects-win-awards-banner_image__Two_youth_placemaking_projects_win_awards_jifzug.jpg"}}}},"type":{"id":"69f82d67dd6cda552a6bed84","name":"News","slug":"news","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2023-12-18T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b0bf1a5e7c6517d4212ccc","name":"Creating the future we want: the placemaking approach","path":"/posts/creating-the-future-we-want-the-placemaking-approach","slug":"creating-the-future-we-want-the-placemaking-approach","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"Imagine if the places where we lived and worked were green, walkable, affordable and regenerative. They made it easy for us to gather, shop, have fun, eat together, and be around people different from us. With this mindset, we could fundamentally change our communities, and collectively, have an impact on the health of our planet.\n","text":"Imagine if the places where we lived and worked were green, walkable, affordable and regenerative. They made it easy for us to gather, shop, have fun, eat together, and be around people different from us. With this mindset, we could fundamentally change our communities, and collectively, have an impact on the health of our planet."},"content":{"text":"For many, it is a time of fear, uncertainty and apprehension. The challenges of our time — climate change and resilience, physical and mental health, equity and inclusion — are global in scale and can often feel overwhelming. The most [effective and catalytic solutions can often be found on the local level](https://www.sociallifeproject.org/the-global-catastrophe-will-be-solved-by-local-communities/) – our public spaces, streets and neighbourhoods.\n\n**What is placemaking?**\n\n‘[**Placemaking**](https://placemaking.education/)’ is an iterative and collaborative process that brings people together to create positive changes in a place or area. This also includes improving existing spaces to make them more comfortable, accessible, active and attractive. It is a growing global movement that aims to improve not only the physical elements of a space, but also the way people think and feel about the world around them. It seeks to inspire [active citizens](https://www.townteammovement.com/about/).\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b0bd2b5e7c6517d4212cbb\" />\n\n**Why is placemaking needed?**\n\nFor many decades, the city-building professions have generally overlooked the role of public space as the fulcrum of great cities. Instead, they’ve trained their focus narrowly on buildings, businesses, roadways, infrastructure, and regulatory frameworks. From traffic engineers to economic development specialists, these professions have retreated into ‘silos’ that separate them from each other and can blind them to the overall needs of cities, their citizens and the natural world.\n\nEach profession pursues narrow, disconnected goals that add up to far less than the sum of their parts. They also ignore the complexity of places, which are intricate and interconnected systems, just like diverse rainforests.\n\nPlacemaking is a response to the car-dominated, unattractive and unsafe environments found in many urban areas, but it also has deep roots reaching back to the way communities used to be created pre-World War 2. Modern cities are often not suitable habitats for nurturing healthy and thriving humans, let alone nature and native species. We can do so much better!\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b0bd965e7c6517d4212cbe\" />\n\n**Some examples of placemaking**\n\nPlacemaking promotes small, community-led actions right through to larger design or development ideas. There are so many examples, but here are some that blend human and social benefits with an environmental focus and outcomes.\n\nPerth-based [WA Loves Nature](https://walovesnature.org.au/) is not-for-profit organisation that promotes, and encourages the community to support, Western Australia’s unique and world-renowned biodiversity. They partnered with local Town Team, [West Perth Local](https://www.facebook.com/westperthlocal/), to create the West Perth Bee Scene Trail.\n\nThe trail takes visitors around the central village of West Perth and aims to educate visitors about the importance of native bees. It is full of sculptures, art murals, bee hotels and wildflower gardens in an urban setting.\n\n[**Native Bee Mural and Sculpture, West Perth**](https://walovesnature.org.au/bee-trail-2/)\n\nThis beautiful mural below was created by [Laeline Design](https://www.facebook.com/laelinedesign/) and showcases some of the local native bee species and the plants you can plant to bring them into your garden.\n\nThe blue banded bee, *Amegilla* sp., sculpture was made and installed by [Respoke](https://www.respoke.com.au/) and shows how the male bees roost at night by holding onto stems with their mandibles. The sculpture is within a native wildflower garden containing some of the bees favourite flowers like native wisteria (*Hardenbergia* *comptoniana*) and emu Bush (*Eremophila nivea*). There is also a large wooden bee hotel on the wall.\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b0be0c5e7c6517d4212cc1\" />\n###### Photo credit: WA Loves Nature\n\n[**Stables Bee Hotel**](https://walovesnature.org.au/bee-trail-2/)\n\nThe bee hotel below was designed to model the heritage-listed stables behind it. It has been orientated to receive morning sun and afternoon shade which is ideal for nesting bees. These hotels are not used by the European honeybee but native solitary bees such as leaf cutter bees and resin bees.\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b0be655e7c6517d4212cc4\" />\n###### Photo credit: WA Loves Nature\n\n**You can do it too!**\n\nAnyone can be a placemaker. It’s matter of looking around you with new ideas, finding ideas that energise you and having a go! Placemaking encourages diversity and life in all its forms. It mixes things up.\n\nHow could you add nature back into social spaces?\n\nHow could you add social elements to natural areas? 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Amazing!\n\nIt really is a privilege to help and support local changemakers to make their places even better right across Australia, and now the world! We couldn’t do this without all the support we get, particularly from our Principal Partner [RAC WA](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rac-wa/) and other partners and supporters. Watch out for more exciting news over the next few months!\n\nWe are truly on an inspiring journey! Be part of it! 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We know that the time is now and we need to take action at all levels – from government, to businesses to the community level.\n\nSpeakers include: Ethan Kent from [PlacemakingX](https://www.placemakingx.org/) – the global custodian of the placemaking movement, Jo Taranto from [Good for the Hood](https://www.goodforthehood.com.au/), Marcus Westbury from Renew Newcastle/Australia and Dean Cracknell from Town Team Movement.\n\nTwo ‘walkshops’ will help us to discover what it happening in Burwood and provide examples of ideas to revitalise places.\n\nTickets cost $350 ex GST / $385 incl GST per person. If you would prefer to pay via tax invoice, please email your request to hello@townteammovement.com and we will action this for you.\n\nThanks to Host Sponsor – Burwood Council!"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Revitalise will be an inspiring event to explore how we can work together to regenerate communities, places and the environment. 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The brave ones who do try are often presented with reams of well-intentioned forms and processes to complete. This soon cools their enthusiasm and sometimes either prevents them from continuing or making them think long and hard about ever attempting to do something similar in future.\n\nThe common focus on mitigating or preventing minor risks helps to breed massive risks, including loss of trust, disengagement, apathy and inertia. The area is likely to continue to spiral down until activists or groups demand that “the government do something about it”. It is difficult to create wins in this kind of negative, reactionary environment.\n\nThe positive place spiral begins not with a massive restructure or new strategic direction, it begins with smart government officials saying “Yes, if …” rather than “No you can’t” if they see a positive [#doer](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=doer&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7071641098858729472) acting with good intentions. This might help create a small win, which builds confidence and helps people to see that they can act and make a difference. 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We are excited to welcome you to this beautiful venue, where we will share food, drinks and ideas amongst our community of dreamers, drivers and doers.Smirk’s Cottage is located at 2 Beacham Crescent, Medina 6167, ample parking is available.Thanks to our co-hosts, the City of Kwinana, supported by the Wellard Village People Town Team.RSVP for catering purposes at:\n[https://events.humanitix.com/town-team-social-e3m8gfel](https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Ftown-team-social-e3m8gfel%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR08nNzxVAtjzd3BZIKMxYn3p5Q1crSsHyjmxiEtx1Jze-IIRwfWS_tbYBM&h=AT2luXYXSUq7D2jOjvpFRwox5sa0urgC48kQv_WMEdTH4OQZPMqrPlJYR0t2hnTtXhZ-jwHCBaDo7B1iHeSx9CmqfVvQA2D0h1fIlCCNTeeG2ItgiZXyJXSvXq92JXWLnZZHkpKwH3i6S5Uf_Zz0&__tn__=q&c[0]=AT0tkqFOhu21M5OCMhGKGalqvXi5WCW2Ba3aeAsvLZMB6sQKS3vc1B908MmkoFNM_xqjT46YRh1ZdADkn1t8IxnW0BTDwblCWmCDzmSpjfSqeE7XYOpuEhSBg5EeIqo3fNtJVRKpOUV8OVQ44B2ypep6bvqnH-oH_lxJG0Z_zvi-20tgoJKl)"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"This FREE event is for all Town Team volunteers, supporters of our movement and anyone just keen to find out more and meet some great people!This Town Team Social is being held at the historic Smirk’s Cottage Heritage Site in Medina. 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His life was changed by a quote from Martin Luther King –\n\n“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”\n\nThe award also reflects the awesome achievements of the local #TownTeam heroes around WA – people making a huge difference in their community. Thank you for your contributions Town Teamers!\n\nWhat’s next …???"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Jimmy was awarded the Honour last night at Parliament House by the Governor-General and Auspire – Australia Day Council WA.\nJimmy is a co-founder of Town Team Movement, co-founder of ARTS Impact WA, was a councillor at City of Vincent for 4 years and has led dozens of street festivals and events around WA. His life was changed by a quote from Martin Luther King –\n“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”\nThe award also reflects the awesome achievements of the local #TownTeam heroes around WA – people making a huge difference in their community. Thank you for your contributions Town Teamers!\nWhat’s next …???\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1773196496/doing-collective/banner/jimmy-is-wa-local-hero-2023_image__Jimmy_is_WA_Local_Hero_2023_zq5ybm.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1773196496/doing-collective/banner/jimmy-is-wa-local-hero-2023_image__Jimmy_is_WA_Local_Hero_2023_zq5ybm.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1773196496/doing-collective/banner/jimmy-is-wa-local-hero-2023_image__Jimmy_is_WA_Local_Hero_2023_zq5ybm.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1773196496/doing-collective/banner/jimmy-is-wa-local-hero-2023_image__Jimmy_is_WA_Local_Hero_2023_zq5ybm.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1773196496/doing-collective/banner/jimmy-is-wa-local-hero-2023_image__Jimmy_is_WA_Local_Hero_2023_zq5ybm.webp"}}}},"type":{"id":"69f82d67dd6cda552a6bed84","name":"News","slug":"news","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2022-11-15T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b0e3fb5e7c6517d4212d7b","name":"Planning Champion Award 2022","path":"/posts/planning-champion-award-2022","slug":"planning-champion-award-2022","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"\n\nThis award recognises and celebrates the leadership and contributions made by hundreds of people around Western Australia.\n","text":"<ImageAsset id=\"69b0e3b15e7c6517d4212d78\" />\n\nThis award recognises and celebrates the leadership and contributions made by hundreds of people around Western Australia."},"content":{"text":"This award recognises and celebrates the leadership and contributions made by hundreds of people around Western Australia.\n\nThe Town Team approach is innovative, creative and fun. But it has serious intent behind it: promoting grassroots [#democracy](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=democracy&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6994445451529764864), creating thriving, [#liveable](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=liveable&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6994445451529764864) and [#loveable](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=loveable&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6994445451529764864) places and supporting the positive people making a difference in their communities.\n\nThank you to many, many people, including [Planning Institute of Australia](https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-planninng-institute-australia/)[ Michael Woodhams](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAACTBu2MBIAYStJkNVV9U9ANn1mXawpfw1B4)[ David Snyder](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAABh_CqcBFrZVuDTOLf_ww7SUhJAa-V8XEdc)[ Ben Kent](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAfwhRgBcg9ypV9FzKOzjwFCxtBNHQmZpPk)[ Kendell Terrell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAe6fMYBcg5Jufu5_WUeGk0P8Kw8xMEkNn0)[ Patrick Walker](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAABB5w-QBP7hwwa2fO_DvjJB3kFlI8B6Gf3Y)[ Sharon Rowse](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAQyQt8BgEA9rwZjC9m3V8fd5TTcTEZLN6k)[ ](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rac-wa/)[RAC WA](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rac-wa/)[ Road Safety Commission](https://www.linkedin.com/company/roadsafetycommission/)[ Ana Beaumont](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAb6BMkBlOqDMR-7MskiHTaKp5-mHII9MWk)[ Lauren Bourke](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAC0bKZgBz3LBudfXbzUa9K59y8oXywHVBnU)[ Michelle Prior](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAKCi-oBLd3dS0ol63PJtPCrq5xLuraDV4A)[ Caroline Robinson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAQFMBABQN8it22wycSWeTR1L5InE2UvbFs)[ Nicole O’Neill MLGP](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAUpQPIB-dpt4UBJyzlPQWK1bOSoOmKdKyA)[ Damien Giudici](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAA5aPQcBfH9DvwUPEQb4ubHxdC0QzZGagxE)[ Kylie Elsegood-Smith](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAdD4FEBPOyKZNc3qMMaZLL-oYKMi1k6pek)[ Ethan Kent](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAIzPv8BOBn4lpD2t9r7zSud3d18ASzCQ8s)[ PlacemakingX](https://www.linkedin.com/company/placemakingx/)[ Gilbert Rochecouste](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAU-Sq0BwocWfAAGgq5O5-1rO8IbaTtvvF8)[ Valli Morphett](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAABoFi-EB1LBFmMjTC0WlJEG0hSeQ8VS74z8)[ Andrew Walton](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAMtrJwBBmcMHS8MWHiTJviAecMng2SMJDg)[ Krista Nightengale](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAIFLrQB5jJ8jnKvu8MZMq7MRV78_ujn6YA)[ Patrycja Rosinska](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAACfseJQBdrnHeN6FzfwHMXJbxdvvgqiOUXg)[ Ryan Hall](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAfZWDgBAlqbbsIulJANtzEQWcJZ3ot6oNI)[ Stephanie Smith](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAABSEpPgBu6luRnmrOdk5JAvtBeTcZocjJ6M)\n\nThe most important and heartfelt thanks goes to the hundreds of [#TownTeam](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=townteam&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6994445451529764864) volunteers making it happen in their community. Keep up the amazing work!\n\nBig kudos to our TTM team – [Jimmy Murphy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAf0e2oBliadG-IJtN94xthEkyBWqee9Nqw)[ Emma Snow](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAB6Q_FsBPFmvpLqKi9zNOmv7I8srmsJC1NA)[ Lisa Rooke](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAABBJKmYBv0-bVrW0TW6s802r9-JpWTjRasI)[ Cate Baker](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAaX_CsB9cMutVzVgriEI84ghHG4ruNc4I8)[ Dean Cracknell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAZb5RgB0XTFIg7jZz-bD5DiakHvKXFP-7k)[ Lisa O’Neill](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAARJKR4BTTxQqaHsrcVnQq69Z52J5o3b69c)[ Alyce Ventris](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAABd8DFoB9sE3McAfhXca1FksQfq82OBfHKY)"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"\n\nThis award recognises and celebrates the leadership and contributions made by hundreds of people around Western Australia.\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1773200214/doing-collective/banner/planning-champion-award-2022_image__Planning_Champion_Award_2022_fdoz2f.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1773200214/doing-collective/banner/planning-champion-award-2022_image__Planning_Champion_Award_2022_fdoz2f.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1773200214/doing-collective/banner/planning-champion-award-2022_image__Planning_Champion_Award_2022_fdoz2f.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1773200214/doing-collective/banner/planning-champion-award-2022_image__Planning_Champion_Award_2022_fdoz2f.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1773200214/doing-collective/banner/planning-champion-award-2022_image__Planning_Champion_Award_2022_fdoz2f.webp"}}}},"type":{"id":"69f82d67dd6cda552a6bed84","name":"News","slug":"news","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2022-11-05T00:00:00.00","authors":[]},{"id":"69b0ee525e7c6517d4212d8a","name":"Placemaking Coaching","path":"/posts/placemaking-coaching","slug":"placemaking-coaching","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"\n","text":"<ImageAsset id=\"69b0ed955e7c6517d4212d87\" />\n"},"content":{"text":"This would suit professionals who might be just getting started on the place journey, or well experienced [#placemakers](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=placemakers&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6983625547989868544&fbclid=IwAR1K1mNaRa0SProO91_RzR3YrGgszowGf9Duee9dF5temOeyKBUkZAZvRog) needing some re-inspiration or fresh ideas to overcome some challenges.\n\nWe’re seeking your thoughts on how these facilitated sessions could be delivered. Complete the Expression of Interest [here]([https://forms.gle/5oDFiUxHAg1P1JWN9](https://forms.gle/5oDFiUxHAg1P1JWN9?fbclid=IwAR0zhQ0OssEH-k5DyE67Ni7OBXGX1rCGDTPaqib4btZ82VJuwkE1eDBPL5w))  \n\nFind out more [here]([https://www.placemaking.education/p/placemaking-coaching](https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.placemaking.education%2Fp%2Fplacemaking-coaching%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1cPorFz2XIS_MWeKy2qQMy20pgIDONJ2FG0-4Wetxw85a6JlEMwFCvhfw&h=AT2jwBD7fw1vWXM_5XIvnHNW73bY4XA66kgiYp_BGshNK89sDY0mMdMYB_kQ-RrWWLCd5LOEyWZf-m_9rVNF3lRDk6WGmfe-0DkZ-rKR-61it9VCfM9BeJuKNxO7qQ2zhdd8bGnINKXWOwyrTyG_&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT331qQ67KsZJj5PX0HoE_ULdSAtxBHCjH4C4ka2EdK0yyv41Uj8MBc6Nrit3TpAGvvPCL7_9mzJzMTUschVFs1f1_Y1ROutNFE6QnfVxp2RNquuq6EgqpqTAM6wLbe6ErdWowTR3KuBioGiOfX9O5yAnGz75k3kDiTHiUA)) \n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1773202784/doing-collective/banner/place-making-coaching_image__place_making_coaching_i78b8n.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1773202784/doing-collective/banner/place-making-coaching_image__place_making_coaching_i78b8n.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1773202784/doing-collective/banner/place-making-coaching_image__place_making_coaching_i78b8n.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1773202784/doing-collective/banner/place-making-coaching_image__place_making_coaching_i78b8n.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1773202784/doing-collective/banner/place-making-coaching_image__place_making_coaching_i78b8n.webp"}}}},"type":{"id":"69f82d59dd6cda552a6bed7d","name":"Webinar Teaching Resource","slug":"webinar-teaching-resource","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2022-10-06T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b0f0195e7c6517d4212d95","name":"Creating the future we want to see","path":"/posts/creating-the-future-we-want-to-see","slug":"creating-the-future-we-want-to-see","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"What’s your favourite place? What is it about that place that you enjoy? How does it make you feel\n","text":"What’s your favourite place? What is it about that place that you enjoy? How does it make you feel"},"content":{"text":"Imagine if the places where we lived and worked were walkable, affordable and regenerative. They made it easy for us to gather, shop, have fun, eat together, and be around people different from us. With this mindset, we could fundamentally change our communities, and collectively have an impact on the health of our planet.\n\nThe challenges of our time — climate change and resilience, physical and mental health, equity and inclusion — are global in scale. But the most [effective and catalytic solutions can often be found on the local level](https://www.sociallifeproject.org/the-global-catastrophe-will-be-solved-by-local-communities/) – our public spaces, streets and neighbourhoods.\n\nPublic places are most dynamic — and most enduring — when they showcase and boost a community’s unique public life, economy, and culture. This is especially true when the people using them are involved in their creation, continual re-creation, management, and governance. This is the essence of ‘placemaking’.\n\n**What is Placemaking?**\n\n[Project for Public Spaces ](https://www.pps.org/article/what-is-placemaking)founded the placemaking approach in the 90s, which is based on the ground-breaking thinking of people such as mentors [Jane Jacobs](https://www.pps.org/article/jjacobs-2) and [William H. Whyte](https://www.pps.org/article/wwhyte) in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Project for Public Spaces defines placemaking as:\n\n> […] both an \n>\n> overarching idea\n>\n>  and a \n>\n> hands-on approach\n>\n>  for improving a neighborhood, city, or region, placemaking inspires people to collectively reimagine and reinvent public spaces as the heart of every community. Strengthening the connection between people and the places they share, placemaking refers to a \n>\n> collaborative process\n>\n>  by which we can shape our public realm in order to maximize shared value.\n>\n> **More than just promoting better urban design**, placemaking facilitates creative patterns of use, paying particular attention to the physical, cultural, and social identities that define a place and support its ongoing evolution.\n>\n> With **community-based participation at its center**, an effective placemaking process capitalizes on a local community’s assets, inspiration, and potential.\n\n### **Why is Placemaking needed?**\n\nFor many decades, the city-building professions have generally overlooked the role of public space as the fulcrum of great cities.\n\nInstead, they’ve trained their focus narrowly on buildings, businesses, roadways, infrastructure, and regulatory frameworks. From traffic engineers to economic development specialists, these professions have retreated into ‘silos’ that separate them from each other and can blind them to the overall needs of cities and their citizens.\n\nEach profession pursues narrow, disconnected goals that add up to far less than the sum of their parts. They also ignore the complexity of places, which are intricate and interconnected systems just like diverse rainforests.\n\nAs public spaces and a sense of place have fallen between the cracks of disciplines, placemaking and place governance have emerged to offer an innovative and more successful way to achieve collective impact in community building.\n\n### **People shape places, which shape people**\n\nPlacemaking is an inclusive and collaborative process, a mindset, an attitude that brings people, disciplines and organisations together to create positive changes to an area (small, medium or large).\n\nIt aims to create places that people want to be in and where humans thrive. It is a process that can strengthen the fabric of a neighbourhood or community.\n\nPlacemaking empowers people to act, not only as an ethical principle, but also because it is a real way to improve the way a person relates to themselves, their neighbours and their world.\n\nGreat public spaces happen through community-driven placemaking and [**place-led governance**](https://www.pps.org/article/toward-place-governance-civic-infrastructure-placemaking). These great places are the foundation of great communities, which in turn are the building blocks of a prosperous, equitable, and resilient society.\n\n> [Project for Public Spaces](https://www.pps.org/article/what-is-placemaking)\n\nIt is time to reinvent the shaping of cities from the place up. The rapidly growing and [global placemaking movement](https://www.placemakingx.org/article/leading-urban-change-with-people-powered-public-spaces) is demonstrating how to turn the shaping of cities upside-down to start with places, and in the process, invent crucial new scalable place-led models for governing, financing, and designing our cities.\n\nAs leadership towards this goal emerges, [PlacemakingX](https://www.placemakingx.org/) works together to highlight, connect, and support these people, their ideas, and their projects."},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"What’s your favourite place? What is it about that place that you enjoy? 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We:\n\n1. Inspire, support, connect and promote local [Town Teams](https://www.townteammovement.com/town-teams/)\n2. Provide [place consultancy services](https://www.townteammovement.com/services/) for local governments, State government agencies, private enterprises and more, often around creating a positive, ‘can do’ culture\n3. Host interactive and inspiring [events](https://www.townteammovement.com/events/)\n4. Innovate and provide [thought leadership](https://www.townteammovement.com/news/), particularly on[ placemaking](https://www.pps.org/article/what-is-placemaking) and community-led action\n\n**Our Vision**\n\nThriving, connected and empowered communities.\n\n**Our Purpose**\n\nWe enable local communities and governments to connect, organise and act to regenerate the fabric of their neighbourhoods and to create better places.\n\n**OUR ‘UNDERARCHING’ APPROACH**\n\nAs an ‘underarching’ organisation, we inspire, support, connect and promote Town Teams from underneath. We are not a peak body and do not have formal power nor control over the 81 (and counting!) independent Town Teams.\n\n\n**SOME OF THE ROLES TOWN TEAM MOVEMENT PLAYS**\n\nTown Team Movement’s key roles are in steps 1, 2 and 4 of the graphic below.\n\nThe independent, local Town Teams make it happen in their place (step 3).\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b0f3a05e7c6517d4212db3\" />\n\n**FIND OUT MORE**\n\nYou can read more about Town Team Movement, including our [Strategy](https://www.townteammovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/TTM-STRATEGY-UPDATE-2021-Final.pdf) and [Theory of Change](https://www.townteammovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/TTM-THEORY-OF-CHANGE-2021-Final.pdf) at https://www.townteammovement.com/about/.\n\nOr [watch this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9IVayjLMdM) to see some of our story.\n\n**BECOME A DIRECTOR OF TOWN TEAM MOVEMENT**\n\nWe encourage anyone with an interest in our organisation and movement to express their interest, particularly people from diverse backgrounds.\n\nAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people living in regional areas, people with a disability and people identifying as LGBTIQA+ are encouraged to apply.\n\nWe are also looking for people with the following specific qualifications, skills or experience:\n\n- Legal qualifications\n- Finance and accounting qualifications\n- Corporate governance and management\n- Entrepreneurship, business modelling, scaling businesses from local to national or international\n- Community organising or community development\n- Philanthropic and other fundraising\n- Information technology\n- Marketing\n- Volunteer management\n- Placemaking, urban planning or design\n\n**COMMITMENT**\n\nOur Board of Directors currently meets monthly at 5:30pm on the first Wednesday of each month in the inner northern suburbs of Perth. Meetings are also available to attend online via Zoom, which makes it possible for people in other parts of Western Australia and other states to be a Director of our organisation.\n\nYour time commitment will be approximately one day per month, including attending board meetings.\n\nCapacity to attend additional Town Team or networking events on evenings or weekends would be preferable.\n\nPlease note that Non-Executive Directors of Town Team Movement are not paid. This is a voluntary position.\n\n**HOW TO APPLY**\n\nPlease submit a one or two-page statement addressing the requirements above and explaining why you’d like to join our board. You may include a CV if you wish.\n\nPlease submit your expression of interest to [hello@townteammovement.com](mailto:hello@townteammovement.com) by 5.00pm, Monday 1 November 2021.\n\n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"If you are interested, please read below and send us an expression of interested by 5.00pm, Monday 1 November 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and meet some great people!\n\nRSVPs essential for catering via [https://events.humanitix.com/town-team-social-nn3g7oyy](https://townteammovement.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5b4a8d5f8fe9252de9ef732dc&id=94c7bed9fb&e=b6d98831ae)\n\nThanks to our co-hosts – **Rise Up Riseley Town Team** and thank you to the City of Melville for supporting the event.\n\n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"FREE\nWhen: 6pm – 8pm Thursday 7 October 2021\nWhere: Quarter Acre Hotel, Applecross\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"69f82d1bdd6cda552a6bed70","name":"Event","slug":"event","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2021-09-20T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean 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equal 50% weighting given to each). \n\nThe competition comprises four stages:\n\n**Step 1)** Submission (Entries open 16th September to 8th October)\n\n**Step 2)** Community Voting (Voting open 11th October to 25th October)\n\n**Step 3)** Judging (26th to 29th October)\n\n**Step 4)** Winner Chosen (6th November at the Town Team Convergence)\n\nClick through to the submissions page below to share your vision for your community and secure your Town Team’s spot in the competition. Good luck!\n\n[Click here](https://www.plicoenergy.com.au/townteamenter) or go to https://www.plicoenergy.com.au/townteamenter to enter your Team."},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"How to Submit\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"69f82d1bdd6cda552a6bed70","name":"Event","slug":"event","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2021-09-18T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b13b995e7c6517d42130f4","name":"Why Dean got involved in Town Team Movement","path":"/posts/why-dean-got-involved-in-town-team-movement","slug":"why-dean-got-involved-in-town-team-movement","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"Imagine being in a room full of positive, energetic people connecting, sharing ideas and having fun! They are committed, enthusiastic doers volunteering their time to make it happen in their local communities. It’s buzzing. You can feel the energy in the room.\n","text":"**Imagine** being in a room full of positive, energetic people connecting, sharing ideas and having fun! They are committed, enthusiastic doers volunteering their time to make it happen in their local communities. It’s buzzing. You can **feel the energy** in the room."},"content":{"text":"That’s what it feels like to be part of the Town Team Movement. But, it’s not just a room full of these people now. We’re a growing movement, with hundreds of people actively involved, which stretches from Perth, Western Australia, to Christchurch, New Zealand. And from Broome, Western Australia, to Launceston, Tasmania. From small country towns to busy, inner-city main streets.\n\nJimmy Murphy, one of the other Co-Founders of Town Team Movement [has previously shared his story](https://www.townteammovement.com/what-led-jimmy-murphy-to-start-town-team-movement/). I thought I’d provide some insights on how and why I got involved.\n\n**From Global to Local**\n\nI never imagined I’d be on this journey. I love traveling, nature and exploring new places. I always aspired to be and think like a citizen of the world, a [cosmopolitan](https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/cosmopolitan). Not that you could tell that by seeing the way I dress. Or the food I eat. The international and the exotic appealed to me. Not the local.\n\nI lived, worked and travelled through 28 countries in my 20’s and 30’s. I never thought about connecting with or helping my local community, apart from being part of various sporting teams.\n\nThings changed after we got back from London. My wife and I had returned to Perth after 7 months away this time, disappointed to be back. We had wanted to stay permanently in the U.K., but things didn’t work out.\n\nI’ve always been a bit of a dreamer, with plenty of ideas to share. I had always thought “someone else” should “do something” about all those ideas though, or the problems that sometimes seemed so evident.\n\nOne day, I stumbled onto this famous quote from President John F. Kennedy online, and it seemed to inspire and challenge me at the same time. Was I someone? Was I prepared to be part of the solution, or remain as part of the problem?\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b137675e7c6517d42130cf\" />\n\nHanging out the washing at the back of our apartment in Mount Lawley soon after this discovery, my wife Mel and I had a conversation that changed both our lives. Somewhere between hanging out a shirt and some socks, I decided to connect and get involved in my local community.\n\nI’m not sure where it came from. Before I knew it, I had said, “well if we are back here, we may as well give it a crack and get involved our local community”. Or words to that effect. Mel quickly agreed. So that was it, we were both going to have a go!\n\nMel’s gone on to become a successful [street artist](https://www.melskiart.com/). I wasn’t quite sure what the next step was for me, but being an urban planner working at a local government, I was interested in the concept of [**placemaking**](https://www.pps.org/category/placemaking). Of making places better. I thought that might be my opportunity to get involved.\n\n**Action by Locals**\n\nAn inner-city suburb of Perth called Maylands held a special interest for me. The local government I worked for at the time had prepared an urban design framework for the Maylands town centre and we had just completed a rezoning of the town centre to encourage high quality redevelopment. That was it, I had thought, job done! A great place will be the result of our work.\n\nWhat I noticed though was that it was really the creative locals, the local traders and new businesses that brought the vibrancy, colour and activity to the town centre that we had wanted. Government-led action was part of the answer, but community-led action by enterprising local businesses and residents was even more important for bringing a place to life.\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b138685e7c6517d42130d8\" />\n\nI joined the Beaufort Street Network in Mount Lawley and Highgate in 2012. At my first meeting, I pitched the idea of developing a practical Action Plan to create a Better Beaufort Street. To get this kind of idea approved in a local government would have taken months of wrangling, convincing and waiting.\n\nTo my surprise, they agreed straight away. “What do you need to make this happen”? they asked. I was blown away and now committed to creating a community-led Action Plan (rather than another government-led plan to sit on a dusty shelf).\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b138a75e7c6517d42130db\" />\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b138dc5e7c6517d42130de\" />\n\nThe Network was a bunch of passionate business owners and residents, led by the inspiring John Carey and then by quietly determined Pam Herron, who really made the Network into the success that it became. I had found my niche. I made lots of new friends and felt much more connected to my local area.\n\nWe did lots of things: ran the Beaufort Street Festival, which attracted around 120,000 to our main street each year; created a monthly art market; filled lots of blank walls and laneways with street art and led the charge for lots more street trees and greenery. Dozens of actions, from the small, but important to the big, visible changes that made people notice us.\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1392d5e7c6517d42130e1\" />\nBeaufort Street Festival 2014\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b139c05e7c6517d42130e4\" />\nBeaufort Street Festival 2015\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b13a245e7c6517d42130e7\" />\n\nOne of my projects included transforming the worst section of street I could find, into something a bit better. I chose a corner and car park that really needed some love. It had an overgrown tree, but very little shade. Unfortunately the local councillor wanted to keep the plain and boring limestone walls because it was “in keeping with the heritage of the area”.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b13a775e7c6517d42130ea\" />\n\nSo, I cleaned up the rubbish and glass (frequently), pruned the tree, created some planters out of old oil barrels and found a seat someone was throwing out. I liaised with the supportive Council staff member, who was sympathetic to my desire to clean up the area. Later, new seats and shade trees were installed along this section of street. Today it looks quite nice – but it started out as being pretty awful.\n\nThe Network became the model for the first Town Team, followed soon after by similar groups like Leederville Connect and Mount Hawthorn Hub. We didn’t realise at the time, but there were other groups already doing similar things or wanting to.\n\nWe started getting asked to help other groups start or advise on how to get things done. So, I’d go and meet them and help if I could. The interest and need for some help and advice kept growing.\n\n**Town Team Movement Forms**\n\nThis guy called Jimmy Murphy kept popping up in conversations. Pretty soon, he was convening meetings of leaders of the various Town Teams in the City of Vincent to see how we could help each other. These meetings sparked the idea for a new organisation to form to support the local Town Teams.\n\nIf we could help Town Teams in Vincent however, then why not the rest of Perth? Why not regional Western Australia? Why not the rest of Australia?\n\nI thought about it. I put it to the group and they agreed, We went from being the ‘Vincent Foundation’, to the ‘Town Team Movement’, which could help aspiring teams across all of Australia.\n\nMany conversations, meetings and beers later, we formed a new non-profit company – Town Team Movement – in 2017 to inspire, support, connect and promote Town Teams around Australia. When we formed, there were around 15 similarly-minded community groups in inner Perth. At the time of writing this around 3.5 years later, there are now 79 teams across Australasia, from small regional country towns to new suburbs and traditional town centres.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b13ace5e7c6517d42130ed\" />\n\n**Why Do I Do It?**\n\nFinding your **Why?** is important. This can help to motivate and focus you, particularly when it’s gets frustrating, difficult or tiring. It’s not all fun!\n\nIt took me a long time to find my personal purpose, which I have boiled down to 3 words – **Create**, **Learn**, **Persevere**.\n\nTown Team Movement helps me to live my purpose in life, it makes me a better person. I get to create, I learn everyday and lots of perseverance certainly helps! I’m not working for a paycheck, I’m working for a purpose.\n\nWhat a difference having a purpose in life means! Instead of drifting, taking and avoiding, I am contributing, enabling and living the change I want to see happen in the world.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b13b735e7c6517d42130f1\" />\n\nWe help Town Teams and local ‘doers’ to improve their community, not only because it’s the right thing to do, but also because it is a real way to improve the way a person relates to themselves, their neighbours and their world. It makes the world a slightly better place through many micro actions. It provides hope for our future.\n\nOur movement creates social capital. We believe that: people have the ability to create positive change and, if they are able to, can take more responsibility for improving their community. We don’t protest against the old, we create the new.\n\n**How Can You Get Started?**\n\nI started with what I had to give – ideas, motivation and a strong desire to see my local area get better.\n\nYou might have skills, time or connections. You might have a shop, local knowledge or a willingness to learn. Everyone has something they can give, even a smile and lending support helps! Be positive!\n\nWhat I have discovered is that the more you give, the more you get back. For me, it’s friends, experiences, inspiration and even employment. I’m now connected to an amazing bunch of people around Australia that I never would have met otherwise.\n\nThe most exciting thing is that we have just started on this journey.\n\nSo, if you want to connect with people in your community, have fun and make a difference, join us! Be part of something bigger! Act Local!\n\n\n\n\n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Imagine being in a room full of positive, energetic people connecting, sharing ideas and having fun! They are committed, enthusiastic doers volunteering their time to make it happen in their local communities. It’s buzzing. 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People from all around the world will be getting involved and it’s a great chance to do something **positive** and **fun**!\n\nThe past year has redefined how we use our neighbourhoods and public spaces. Whilst some of us remain physically distant and others adjust to a post-COVID world, we can all find new ways to remain socially connected.\n\nPorch Placemaking is about **taking action** and bringing people together (from a safe distance) by activating your front porch (or balcony, front yard, stoop or driveway) between September 27th and October 3rd. Simply put, the project is about connecting with neighbours through small scale, tactical projects.\n\nThere are a number of ways to join the movement:\n\n- Get your Town Team or street involved\n- Promote to other people and organisations in your network\n- Share your project and pictures on the global placemaking map and\n- Inspire others by sharing your project in our Facebook group.\n\nJump over to the resources page to download some hints, tips and tricks to get you started and to have a look at some of the case studies from last year. We look forward to having you part of the movement!\n\n[www.porchplacemaking.com](http://www.porchplacemaking.com/)"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":""},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1777624235/doing-collective/banner/porch-placemaking-week-banner_thumbnail__Porch-Placemaking_1600x1000_fgdoag.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1777624235/doing-collective/banner/porch-placemaking-week-banner_thumbnail__Porch-Placemaking_1600x1000_fgdoag.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1777624235/doing-collective/banner/porch-placemaking-week-banner_thumbnail__Porch-Placemaking_1600x1000_fgdoag.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1777624235/doing-collective/banner/porch-placemaking-week-banner_thumbnail__Porch-Placemaking_1600x1000_fgdoag.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1777624235/doing-collective/banner/porch-placemaking-week-banner_thumbnail__Porch-Placemaking_1600x1000_fgdoag.webp"}}}},"type":{"id":"69f82d1bdd6cda552a6bed70","name":"Event","slug":"event","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2021-08-04T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1420e5e7c6517d4213112","name":"What led Jimmy Murphy to start Town Team Movement?","path":"/posts/what-led-jimmy-murphy-to-start-town-team-movement","slug":"what-led-jimmy-murphy-to-start-town-team-movement","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"Some reflections from Town Team Movement Co-Founder – Jimmy Murphy\nI’ve been reflecting on a massive month for Town Team Movement, with the 65th Town Team joining the movement and our work in regional Western Australia gathering momentum (I’m out in Northam for ‘Northam on the Up’s’ first major community meeting!!\n","text":"Some reflections from Town Team Movement Co-Founder – Jimmy Murphy\n\nI’ve been reflecting on a massive month for Town Team Movement, with the 65th Town Team joining the movement and our work in regional Western Australia gathering momentum (I’m out in Northam for ‘Northam on the Up’s’ first major community meeting!!"},"content":{"text":"**What started me off on this journey?**\n\nI still come back to the moment when I read Martin Luther Kings famous quote for the first time, on my friend Karen Lee’s fridge, almost 10 years ago –\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b13fa15e7c6517d4213106\" />\n\nReading that quote was the moment that changed everything for me. I went from a ‘protest activist’ to a ‘contributing activist’ in my mindset. I went from blaming everyone else, to accepting my civic responsibility and the power to make a difference. It was a seismic shift in my mindset that felt like an atomic brain explosion at the time, a chain reaction that lasted for years and it led to all sorts of ramifications and life changes, including giant street festival productions, getting voted onto Council and eventually, the creation of Town Team Movement.\n\n**I found what ‘lights me up**’ – **the most rewarding work of civic contribution through placemaking**. Now, my work is spreading the joy of this work to others who share our passion.\n\nLast night at our Town Team Social, we had teams from Gosnells and Joondalup and Armadale and Midland and everything in between. People sharing stories of how they had impacted their own communities – from building their own public spaces to events with thousands of people, new community centres, markets, community gardens, knowing neighbours, helping groups, running for council and improvements to local communities and greater society.\n\nSome of this would have happened without Town Team Movement, but alot would not have, and knowing that brings me tears of joy. Town Team Movement has been the hardest, the most bold, the most uncertain, the most impactful and the most rewarding thing that I have ever been apart of.\n\n**We’re almost 5 years in, and it feels like we’re only just getting started.**\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b140745e7c6517d4213109\" />\nPic 1 – Town Team Movement formed in 2016 + 2017 around Jimmy’s kitchen table. Pic 2 – The TTM team at the Dowerin Do-over April 2021\n\nhttps://youtu.be/O9IVayjLMdM\n\nA video on the background of our movement for positive change\n\nIt’s easy to get caught up blaming big business or big government for the failures of society and the world. But, I believe in order to defeat the big challenges of our time – lack of climate action, inequality, suicide, mental health, discrimination etc, we need a healthier democracy.\n\nI haven’t yet found a better system. So, I decided to give it my all and work to restore the confidence and trust of communities by helping them to empower themselves to build a stronger civil society. Not get caught up in who has what or who controls what, or who said what, but focus on what we can do to make it better.\n\n\nMake it happen!\n\nI **believe we need to work at democracy together**. **That democracy is far more than a vote at a ballot box**. **Its the very fabric and connections and conversations and actions of our communities that makes up our society. 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Most recently she’s been working on the Healthy Active by Design program with the Heart Foundation. She is interested in how we shape our neighbourhoods and how our communities shape us.\nLisa’s ideal day off would start wandering farmer’s markets with an empty basket and a coffee in hand.\n","text":"<ImageAsset id=\"69b144005e7c6517d4213120\" />\n\nShe has experience in health and the built environment in metro and regional WA and is an enthusiastic volunteer in her community. Most recently she’s been working on the Healthy Active by Design program with the Heart Foundation. She is interested in how we shape our neighbourhoods and how our communities shape us.\n\nLisa’s ideal day off would start wandering farmer’s markets with an empty basket and a coffee in hand."},"content":{"text":"<ImageAsset id=\"69b144445e7c6517d4213123\" />\n\nEve studied Marketing Management & Sociology in the UK, moved to W.A. for love & worked as an administrator in a variety of W.A. industries for five years.\n\nEve has also been an active team member of the Bayswater Town Team – The Baysie Rollers – for three years. There she assists with social media, website management and events coordination.\n\nOutside of work she plays field hockey, enjoys exploring the Perth bar scene on the hunt for delicious gins or enjoying the simple pleasure of chilling out with the hubby or the cat. 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She is interested in how we shape our neighbourhoods and how our communities shape us.\nLisa’s ideal day off would start wandering farmer’s markets with an empty basket and a coffee in hand.\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"69f82d7fdd6cda552a6bed8d","name":"Doer Profile","slug":"doer-profile","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2021-06-11T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b145195e7c6517d421312d","name":"We’re recruiting!","path":"/posts/were-recruiting","slug":"were-recruiting","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"Town Team Builder (part-time)\n$80K Pro-rata + Super. Part Time – 3 days a week\nWe are seeking a superstar Town Team Builder to work with us on a part-time basis, 3 days a week. As our Town Team Builder you will support, influence and inspire independent Town Teams; help them to complete projects, develop their capability and assist with barriers, leading them to success. Check out the details here.\n","text":"#### Town Team Builder (part-time)\n\n$80K Pro-rata + Super. Part Time – 3 days a week\n\nWe are seeking a superstar Town Team Builder to work with us on a part-time basis, 3 days a week. As our Town Team Builder you will support, influence and inspire independent Town Teams; help them to complete projects, develop their capability and assist with barriers, leading them to success. [Check out the details here](https://www.seek.com.au/job/52111111?tracking=TMC-SAU-eDM-SharedJob-13246)."},"content":{"text":"#### Administration & Marketing Coordinator (part-time)\n\nWe offering $25 per hour + super / 16 hours a week\n\n- Provide administration and marketing support to the internal TTM team.\n- Manage and maintain our client management system.\n- Create, coordinate and maintain content on Marketing and Social Media platforms, our website and e-Newsletter.\n- Document control and record-keeping\n\n[More information available here](https://www.seek.com.au/job/52111133?tracking=TMC-SAU-eDM-SharedJob-13246)."},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Town Team Builder (part-time)\n$80K Pro-rata + Super. Part Time – 3 days a week\nWe are seeking a superstar Town Team Builder to work with us on a part-time basis, 3 days a week. As our Town Team Builder you will support, influence and inspire independent Town Teams; help them to complete projects, develop their capability and assist with barriers, leading them to success. Check out the details here.\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1777625195/doing-collective/banner/town-team-movement-a-postive-group-of-citizen-lead-action_thumbnail__town_team_movement_a_postive_group_c1re2u.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1777625195/doing-collective/banner/town-team-movement-a-postive-group-of-citizen-lead-action_thumbnail__town_team_movement_a_postive_group_c1re2u.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1777625195/doing-collective/banner/town-team-movement-a-postive-group-of-citizen-lead-action_thumbnail__town_team_movement_a_postive_group_c1re2u.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1777625195/doing-collective/banner/town-team-movement-a-postive-group-of-citizen-lead-action_thumbnail__town_team_movement_a_postive_group_c1re2u.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1777625195/doing-collective/banner/town-team-movement-a-postive-group-of-citizen-lead-action_thumbnail__town_team_movement_a_postive_group_c1re2u.webp"}}}},"type":{"id":"6a27d64f83a077520643c487","name":"Opportunity","slug":"opportunity","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2021-04-28T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1466e5e7c6517d421313a","name":"2020 Reflections and Highlights","path":"/posts/2020-reflections-and-highlights","slug":"2020-reflections-and-highlights","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"\n","text":"<ImageAsset id=\"69b145fa5e7c6517d4213134\" />\n"},"content":{"text":"Firstly, thank you to all the Town Team volunteers and to the growing band of supporters of our movement! There are now 55 registered Town Teams across Australia and New Zealand, with more to come!\n\nThe resilient spirit of Town Teamers was highlighted by ‘making it happen’ in a crazy year. Town Teams were quick to respond to the conditions brought on by Covid lock down and post-Covid recovery. During Covid we had teams organizing online initiatives to support their local communities. \n\nIn Doubleview, The Bend in the Road team had “Bend Connections”, encouraging locals to connect with each other while supporting a local take-away business. Inglewood on Beaufort promoted “Take-out Tuesdays” also promoting local businesses. The Beaufort Street Network hosted a series of hugely popular virtual quiz nights, which not only connected community but also supported their local businesses. \n\nOver in Bayswater, the team capitalised on their neighbourhoods love for verge gardening during lock-down and hosted the Baysie Verge Garden competition. In Fremantle, the South Freo Corner Pocket hosted Porchfest, a socially distance micro music festival featuring local musicians. \n\nIn Dalyellup, the Dalyellup Collective hosted the South West Virtual Art Exhibition, featuring talented local artists from throughout the south-west. \n\nAs we have slowly been able to start meeting face to face again, our teams have continued to show their resilience, continuing to create fun and innovative ways for their community to reconnect and activate their local places. A look at our monthly newsletter shows a huge variety of events and initiatives which bring people together and support local town centres. We have had music events in Morley thanks to the Morley Momentum, food trucks and markets in Clarkson brough by one of our newer teams, East Keys Collective. The Midland Junction Collective put on the recent Really Really Free Market, and The Vic Park Collective brough the hugely successful Car Free Day to Victoria Park. Too many wonderful events to list them all. \n\nTown Team Movement continued to ‘do the thing’ through the COVID pandemic. From Porch Placemaking Week, to Action in Isolation, the SHIFT Digi Conference and the Community Convergence, it was another big year! A huge thank you to Kylie, David and Jimmy for all you hard work, innovation and laughs. Emma Gibbens was also pivotal in taking TTM digital and ensuring we thrived. Thanks Emma!\n\nThe movement spread to two new states: Tasmania and Victoria and now includes communities across dozens of local government areas.\n\nOur partnership with RAC in Western Australia continued to develop. RAC has now provided more than $100,000 to help fund Town Team projects in W.A. across two rounds of the Connecting Communities fund. It also provides some core funding to help our non-profit social enterprise. Thank you to RAC for your fantastic support!\n\nWe are deepening the understanding of our journey. With the expertise of our graphic designer, Tessa Collins, we came up with this new graphic to illustrate the process and roles of building a movement.\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1464f5e7c6517d4213137\" />\n\n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"69f82d67dd6cda552a6bed84","name":"News","slug":"news","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2020-12-16T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b147635e7c6517d4213144","name":"Car Spaces to Public Spaces Design Game","path":"/posts/car-spaces-to-public-spaces-design-game","slug":"car-spaces-to-public-spaces-design-game","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"Or maybe you are a government or design professional and looking for new techniques to engaging with businesses, residents and stakeholders to inform the design of a new public space?\n","text":"Or maybe you are a government or design professional and looking for new techniques to engaging with businesses, residents and stakeholders to inform the design of a new public space?"},"content":{"text":"<ImageAsset id=\"69b147435e7c6517d4213141\" />\n\nWell, you are in luck! Town Team Movement has created the ultimate design card game for you. Our deck of cards includes four common design and activation themes or ‘suits’ with specific hardware and software infrastructure, approximate costings, spatial layers and priority cards to help inform a more connected and authentic local space.\n\nAnd yes, it’s fun, easy for anyone to play and promotes the future of publicly accessible spaces to be designed ‘with’ the community!\n\nFeel free to [download the ‘print at home’ version here](https://www.dropbox.com/s/ln8jn4uv732cu8w/TTM SPACES CARD GAME_PRINT AT HOME.pdf?dl=0).\n\nHave any questions? Or interested in one of our professional staff to assist with facilitating the engagement process?\n\nFeel free to contact Town Team Movement at [hello@townteammovement.com](mailto:hello@townteammovement.com)."},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Or maybe you are a government or design professional and looking for new techniques to engaging with businesses, residents and stakeholders to inform the design of a new public space?\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"6a27d7a183a077520643c4a2","name":"Teaching resource","slug":"teaching-resource","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2020-10-28T00:00:00.00","authors":[]},{"id":"69b14a3b5e7c6517d421314d","name":"Community Convergence 17 October 2020","path":"/posts/community-convergence-17-october-2020","slug":"community-convergence-17-october-2020","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"11am until 4pm, Saturday, 17 October followed by the infamous Town Team After Party \n","text":"**11am until 4pm, Saturday, 17 October followed by the infamous Town Team After Party** "},"content":{"text":"**Learn how to:**\n\n- Be inspired with town team ideas for arts, activation and bringing your community together in your town\n- Learn about what’s possible in creating new or activating existing public space!\n- Start a town team and/or organise and bring your community together\n- Activate your town or neighbourhood through community-led placemaking\n- Fundraise, recruit more members or make it easier to get things done working with your local council and your existing community group\n\nGet your ticket at https://events.humanitix.com/community-convergence\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b14a1d5e7c6517d421314a\" />\n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"11am until 4pm, Saturday, 17 October followed by the infamous Town Team After Party \n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"69f82d1bdd6cda552a6bed70","name":"Event","slug":"event","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2020-10-07T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b14cb95e7c6517d4213160","name":"What governments can learn from football about building community","path":"/posts/what-governments-can-learn-from-football-about-building-community","slug":"what-governments-can-learn-from-football-about-building-community","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"“That wherever you were, you made it a little better,” he said.\n","text":"“That wherever you were, you made it a little better,” he said."},"content":{"text":"What a simple and powerful idea! We’d all like to live in a better place – to make it at least a little better. In the age of technology, the importance of physical geography is sometimes forgotten. But, people usually care deeply about their area, a feeling that governments should enable and cultivate.\n\nIn modern, multicultural societies, active public spaces are a way to bring different cultures, language groups, lifestyles and beliefs together. Public spaces are where people can meet, relax and mix. They have played essential roles in social and economic exchanges over thousands of years.\n\n‘[Placemaking](https://www.placemakingx.org/)’ is both a philosophy and an iterative, collaborative process for creating public spaces that people love and feel connected to.\n\n*“*[*Placemaking is like turning a house into a home*](http://www.creative-communities.com/)*”.*\n\n David Engwicht from Creative Communities\n\nPlacemaking empowers people to act, not only as an ethical principle, but also because it is a real way to improve the way a person relates to themselves, their neighbours and their world\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b14bb15e7c6517d4213154\" />\n\n[In inclusive and equitable places, citizens feel (first) that they are welcome, and (second) that it is within their power to change those places through their own actions.](https://www.pps.org/article/stronger-citizens-stronger-cities-changing-governance-through-a-focus-on-place)\n\nUrban innovator Marcus Westbury explored these ideas in his book, [*Creating Cities*](https://www.facebook.com/CreatingCities/). He wrote that somewhere between his parent’s generation and his own, we forgot that individuals and communities could do things for themselves. The once-simple intersection between community-initiated action, civic improvement and government control became more and more complicated.\n\nCities became expensive, regulated and professionalised. There were many benefits to this, particularly with our increasingly busy and stressful lives. Cities got safer and cleaner, neater and more orderly, Westbury poetically writes. We gained many things, but Western societies are less participatory, adaptive and resilient as a result of the [service-delivery mindset](https://www.themandarin.com.au/101662-enablement-how-governments-can-achieve-more-by-letting-go/). Public spaces are often manufactured to look generic and sterile – ‘placeless’ – in order to satisfy misguided regulations and minimise maintenance costs.\n\nMindsets and bureaucratic structures are unfortunately a major barrier.\n\n*“Governance, on every scale, is not set up to create great places. Indeed, the current culture and structure of government and civic infrastructure may actually be the greatest obstacle (more than money, ideas, talent, infrastructure, etc.) to successful Placemaking.*\n\n[Project for Public Spaces](https://www.pps.org/article/toward-place-governance-civic-infrastructure-placemaking)\n\nThe [Enabling Mindset](https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/mindset-shift-emerging-local-government/) is critical to placemaking. We have built on the ideas of the Centre of Public Impact to create the graphic below.\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b14be85e7c6517d4213157\" />\n\n‘Place’ is an important organising principle that can help to break down bureaucratic silos and offers a common purpose for various disciplines – to create better places and stronger communities.\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b14c195e7c6517d421315a\" />\n\nRather than top-down, expert-led masterplans, placemaking employs a tactical approach termed “lighter, quicker, cheaper” to improving public spaces, which involves both hardware and software ‘upgrades’.\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b14c815e7c6517d421315d\" />\n\nThe hardware of a place is easy to see – the roads, buildings, parks, utilities etc. The hardware is generally the responsibility of government agencies, but it can’t infuse a place with soul, character or identity.\n\nThe software of a place is less tangible. It is the vibrancy, confidence and character of the area. Some places feel good, whilst others do not. Local residents, businesses, community groups and visitors are the main contributors to the place software.\n\nGovernments should play an enabling role in the process and the community empowered to get involved.\n\nA network of ‘citizen-placemakers’ is building in Australasia, centred on the Town Team Model. [Town Teams are positive and proactive community groups](http://townteammovement.com/) that work collaboratively with their local government to improve a place or area, They provide vision, leadership and can complement the work of government agencies.\n\n*“The town teams and the City (of Vincent) enjoy a symbiotic relationship. The City works collaboratively with the town teams to deliver locally based activities/events, physical improvements and economic and community development initiatives.”*\n\n[City of Vincent](https://www.vincent.wa.gov.au/council/publications/corporate-plans-strategies/town-centre-place-plans.aspx), Western Australia\n\n[Town Teams](https://www.townteammovement.com/town-teams/) have delivered [hundreds of actions](https://www.townteammovement.com/100-actions-by-town-teams/) to improve their local areas and are building strong relationships with their local government authorities, particularly in Western Australia. The approach is both popular and successful. The movement is championed and supported by [Town Team Movement](https://www.townteammovement.com/).\n\nThe benefits of placemaking can be both tangible and emotional.\n\n*“Developments and neighbourhoods shaped by the principles of placemaking not only succeed on a practical level, but also increase quality of life, provide a sense of belonging and have emotional resonance. People tend to be happier, more productive and more inclined to care for thoughtfully designed spaces.*\n\n*Places that generate these good feelings progressively attract more people, more investment and more business.”*\n\n[Great Place Guide, City Renewal Authority](https://www.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/1615898/great-place-guide.pdf)\n\n\n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"“That wherever you were, you made it a little better,” he said.\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"6a27d62783a077520643c47f","name":"Placemaking","slug":"placemaking","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2020-09-25T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b14dd55e7c6517d421316c","name":"Town Teams and Politics","path":"/posts/town-teams-and-politics","slug":"town-teams-and-politics","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"The Town Team Charter is a shared story of what Town Teams are and how they are expected to act. It’s a summary of the ‘Town Team Way’.\n","text":"The [Town Team Charter](https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1781085176/doing-collective/file-asset/town-team-charter_file__Town_Team_Charter_June26_V2_d86jza.pdf) is a shared story of what Town Teams are and how they are expected to act. It’s a summary of the ‘Town Team Way’."},"content":{"text":"The **third guiding principle** of our movement is ‘**Apolitical and Independent’**.\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b14d985e7c6517d4213169\" />\n\nAs the principle suggests, the Town Team Way is “beyond politics.” Town Teams do not advocate for or align with political parties or candidates. They are independent from governments, but work closely and constructively with them.\n\nBeing apolitical means being politically neutral or not ‘choosing a side’, but it does not mean being completely ‘non-political’. You can still engage with relevant elected members. You can give any speaking, engagement or event attendance opportunities equally to your local representatives. You can also invite them to your meetings and keep them across your activities in the community.\n\nWe know that many people have strong personal political convictions and that is fine. We want people from all walks of life to be involved in the movement. But, we leave those personal political convictions “at the door” when we have our Town Team hat on. Town Teams work for the benefit of their communities, not for individual or factional advancement.\n\nFrom time to time, particularly around local government election time, we field a number of questions around political candidates and Councillors’ involvement in Town Teams. To ensure that the Charter is maintained, Councillors and Members of Parliament are unable to hold official or voting positions on Town Teams.\n\nIf an existing Town Team committee member wishes to run as a candidate for local, State or Commonwealth Government elections, they are required to step down from their official role in the Town Team upon the official announcement of their intention. The Town Team should ensure it remains impartial and not get involved in elections or campaigning (this includes no posts on social media that favour a particular candidate or party).\n\nWe have found that this is not only the right ethical position to take, but also works at a pragmatic level by protecting individual teams and the wider movement (the collective of teams) from political manoeuvres.\n\nWhile they cannot be official members of Town Teams, we encourage all councillors and Members of Parliament to support local Town Teams and the amazing work they do in their community. As such, Town Teams should try and invite a a broad cross-section of elected representatives to their events.\n\nIf you get approached by a political party or political aspirant to sponsor an event or activity of yours, feel free to accept the donation, however try and make any other running members aware of the donations and invite them to also donate at the same amount and sponsorship level.\n\nIf you do have any specific questions, please let us know!\n\n**Note**\nThere are slightly different definitions of apolitical. The Collins Dictionary defines [apolitical](https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/apolitical) in [British English](https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/apolitical) as being “politically neutral; without political attitudes, content, or bias.”"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"The Town Team Charter is a shared story of what Town Teams are and how they are expected to act. 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We thank Marc and Neil for their outstanding contributions over a number of years!\nEmma, David and Tara will help to lead our movement for positive change and support the real heroes – the volunteers from the 48* Town Teams (* – and counting!) around Australia and New Zealand.\n","text":"Emma Watton, David Lee and Tara Gloster have joined the Board following the retirement of inaugural Directors Marc Drexel and Neil Viney. We thank Marc and Neil for their outstanding contributions over a number of years!\n\nEmma, David and Tara will help to lead our movement for positive change and support the real heroes – the volunteers from the 48* Town Teams (* – and counting!) around Australia and New Zealand."},"content":{"text":"\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b14e9f5e7c6517d4213173\" />\n**Emma Watton**\n\nEmma is an experienced Non-Executive Director in the community sector and a visionary leader who works with organisations to assist in developing and delivering strong brand-led engagements, strategies and communications. She is a brand strategist and facilitator at government, board, stakeholder and community level.\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b14edb5e7c6517d4213176\" />\n**David Lee**\n\nDavid has been involved in the not-for-profit, community arts, and community activation sectors for many years. He has operated at the executive level in the resources industry, manufacturing and government sectors for several decades. He is Chair of local Town Team the Baysie Rollers, and been a member of the WA Government’s Technology and Industry Advisory Council, the Knowledge Economy Taskforce and Creative Industries Taskforce. He is an experienced company Director and been a Councillor in regional Local Government.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b14f255e7c6517d4213179\" />\n**Tara Gloster**\n\nTara is a talented and innovative placemaker with experience in the private sector, local government, Curtin University and the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association. She has strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills and experience developing place visions, strategies and policy."},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Emma Watton, David Lee and Tara Gloster have joined the Board following the retirement of inaugural Directors Marc Drexel and Neil Viney. 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My Masters of Urban Regional Planning had emphasised that stakeholder engagement was important, but didn’t actually cover how to do it properly.\n","text":"I learnt about community engagement on the job as an urban planner in a local government. My Masters of Urban Regional Planning had emphasised that stakeholder engagement was important, but didn’t actually cover how to do it properly."},"content":{"text":"The [IAP2 Public Participation Spectrum](https://www.iap2.org.au/resources/spectrum/) really helped. It broke down community engagement into 5 categories – Inform, Consult, Involve, Collaborate and Empower and advised on how to effectively engage stakeholders. Luckily, I also had a few people working with me that really understood the spectrum and how to properly engage with people.\n\n> https://www.iap2.org.au/resources/spectrum/\n\nThe IAP2 Spectrum is rightly seen as effective way to assess the public’s influence on ***decisions*** **made by governments**.\n\nBut, as [Max Hardy says here](http://www.maxhardy.com.au/community-engagement-definitions-applicable-to-systems-change/), even the term ‘empower’ in the IAP2 context is about delegated decision making; it does not align with the community development concept of empowerment, nor that of most placemakers. It’s not about action or self-empowerment.\n\nDr Crispin Butteriss elegantly dissects [‘community engagement’ in this post](https://www.bangthetable.com/blog/defining-community-engagement) and its limitations.\n\nIn short, we haven’t had a tool relevant for [Placemaking](https://www.townteammovement.com/whats-the-difference-placemaking-place-management-and-place-activation/) and in particular, outlining who is ‘doing’ and ‘making it happen’. Placemaking is about action, not just talk (hopefully).\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b150855e7c6517d4213189\" />\n\n#### Placemaking Participation Spectrum\n\nTown Team Movement created this new Placemaking Participation Spectrum to help explore and explain placemaking roles and participation.\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b150dc5e7c6517d421318c\" />\n\nGiven the success of the IAP2 Spectrum, we decided it was a pretty good format to start to explore placemaking roles and participation. We also broke the spectrum into 5 stages, which are further explained below.\n\n#### Regulate\n\nGovernments in the Regulate stage are focused on their statutory and regulatory roles – things like managing roads, rubbish removal, building control, caring for parks, managing recreation centres, libraries, environmental health, managing community assets and lots more. Local governments are tasked by State and Federal Governments and their communities with so many things, it is no wonder why they find it difficult to emerge from the Regulate stage.\n\nPlacemaking in this stage is sporadic at best, and often not existent. Local residents and businesses are often trapped in their ‘Ratepayer’ mindset in this stage. They aren’t challenged or encouraged to help create better places. “Isn’t that the governments job?”. Nope – it’s everyone’s responsibility.\n\nThe Regulate stage provides a utilitarian, minimum standard of place and community building. The cynics might term it as a ‘standardised mediocrity’, although we are far more polite than that.\n\n#### Deliver\n\nGovernments in the Deliver Stage begin to realise that [places are important](https://www.townteammovement.com/celebrating-10-local-government-innovations-of-2018/). Placemaking becomes another service offered to their community. They might upgrade the [hardware of places](https://www.townteammovement.com/upgrading-the-software/), manage events or start to explore the Place-led Approach.\n\nBecause the local government is involved in placemaking, residents and businesses are generally still passive. They might attend an event, a business might start asking about parklets or extended street trading and some new ideas might emerge, inspired by things happening elsewhere. On the whole, businesses and residents are consumers of place rather than active contributors.\n\n#### Allow\n\nLetting go of some control and allowing things to happen is difficult for some, but it starts to open up fantastic placemaking opportunities. [Andy Sharp](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-sharp-a650b714/) states it beautifully when he talks about Managing Places to Life, instead of (over)managing them to death. Some examples of this approach are:\n\n- As of right alfresco dining and street trading permits for local businesses that meet certain requirements\n- Verge gardens are encouraged on nature strips\n- Local government make small-scale events super easy, including cover pesky things like insurance\n- [A 7 Day Makeover](https://7day.com.au/)\n\nBusinesses and residents are implicitly and explicitly challenged in this stage to be positive placemaking contributors. The Midcoast Council in New South Wales is providing an example of this with its [Vibrant Spaces program](http://www.midcoast.nsw.gov.au/vibrantspaces). Nice work!\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b151665e7c6517d421318f\" />\n\n#### Collaborate\n\nThings start to get interesting in the Collaborate stage. Governments to work with positive partners to improve places. We think that [Town Teams](https://www.townteammovement.com/town-teams/) could be such partners (although trust needs to be earned), but it could be a business association, community group or even a community enterprise. Like all good relationships, the partners can start to identify who can do what do improve the place in the short, medium and long-term. Think of it like a ‘Place Tag Team’!\n\n#### Empower\n\nOK, so we haven’t actually seen the Empower stage happen in Australia as yet. It might be happening, but we don’t know about it (please tell us if it is!). We’re using some vivid powers of imagination to envisage what it could be like.\n\nThe closest example and a living inspiration for our movement is [Coin Street Community Builders](https://coinstreet.org/) on London’s South Bank. Thirty years ago the Coin Street area of London was bleak, unattractive, with few shops and restaurants. The residential community was dwindling and the local economy was weak. Today it is thriving mixed-use neighbourhood. A destination for millions of Londoners and visitors from overseas, with a thriving residential and business community benefiting from community facilities and services.\n\nThis change was led and championed by the local community. Coin Street’s activities are wide and far reaching. From giving [families and children](https://coinstreet.org/community/families-children/) the best start in life through its childcare and family support, to creating and maintaining high quality live, work and play spaces on land which it owns.\n\nCoin Street promotes enterprise, creativity and lifelong learning. Whether that’s through providing employment, volunteering opportunities, nurturing enterprise or delivering programmes and activities. It also provides housing that supports our community, champion [co-operative housing](https://coinstreet.org/what-we-do/co-operative-housing/) and influence local and national housing policy.\n\nAmazing and truly inspiring!\n\nA small step in this direction might be a local government ‘insourcing’ the care of a park to a local community group or social enterprise. It could provide some money for them to maintain and improve the park.\n\nThe Empower stage would be delivered through the Enabling Mindset.\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1519f5e7c6517d4213192\" />\n\n\n\n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"I learnt about community engagement on the job as an urban planner in a local government. My Masters of Urban Regional Planning had emphasised that stakeholder engagement was important, but didn’t actually cover how to do it properly.\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"6a27d62783a077520643c47f","name":"Placemaking","slug":"placemaking","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2020-06-10T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1532b5e7c6517d42131a2","name":"People Creating Their Own Better Neighbourhoods","path":"/posts/people-creating-their-own-better-neighbourhoods","slug":"people-creating-their-own-better-neighbourhoods","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"A family that lived across the street from me decided to move their trampoline into the front yard of their house.\n","text":"A family that lived across the street from me decided to move their trampoline into the front yard of their house."},"content":{"text":"They have two energetic, small children that love to be outside. The trampoline’s springs are broken, but hey, it is still lots of fun for a 2-year old. Being in the front yard was important because people could see them, and they could see other people. It is social space.\n\n\nThe noisy, family fun on a sunny morning soon brought the neighbours outside. They are a Hazara family that recently escaped persecution in Afghanistan. I am a new migrant to the neighbourhood myself, but hadn’t seen the family much in my time here.\n\nAs kids do, they wanted to join in the fun. Their father lifted them gently over the waist-high fence and they made straight for the trampoline. They needed some help to get up, but were soon laughing in delight with new-found friends.\n\nMaking a better place can be as simple as being outside of the front of your home – on your verandah, balcony, front garden, driveway or even on the foot path. Driveway drinks is now part of the culture of some suburbs in these COVID times.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b152f65e7c6517d421319f\" />\nSource: https://studio5.ksl.com/sidewalk-chalk-dad-driveway-masterpiece/\n\nTransition Town Guildford suggests [10 easy](https://transitiontownguildford.com/2015/02/26/10-things-you-can-do-to-create-a-playbourhood/)[ ](https://transitiontownguildford.com/2015/02/26/10-things-you-can-do-to-create-a-playbourhood/)[ideas for creating a PLAYbourhood](https://transitiontownguildford.com/2015/02/26/10-things-you-can-do-to-create-a-playbourhood/) in this article.\n\nA global celebration of these humble ways to build safer, more connected communities will be launched as **Porch Placemaking Week from 30 May to 5 June 2020**.\n\nIt is about ensuring we continue to connect with one another during these challenging times. In this case, the connections will be hyperlocal (with your immediate neighbours and passers-by) and around the world, as people from many countries, cultures and languages join in the fun.\n\nIt’s super simple. Choose a space outside the front of your home, think of something fun, relaxing or social and then give it a go before, during or after the week. Better still, send us some pics.\n\nTown Team Movement is proud to be a supporter of Porch Placemaking Week. We encourage Town Teams to promote it to their local communities. No meetings, no hassles, no budgets – just do it!"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"A family that lived across the street from me decided to move their trampoline into the front yard of their house.\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1777625775/doing-collective/banner/source-https-mumsgrapevine-com-au_thumbnail__Source--https-__mumsgrapevine.com.au_2020_03_bol-best-trampolines__1600x1000_bzodzq.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1777625775/doing-collective/banner/source-https-mumsgrapevine-com-au_thumbnail__Source--https-__mumsgrapevine.com.au_2020_03_bol-best-trampolines__1600x1000_bzodzq.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1777625775/doing-collective/banner/source-https-mumsgrapevine-com-au_thumbnail__Source--https-__mumsgrapevine.com.au_2020_03_bol-best-trampolines__1600x1000_bzodzq.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1777625775/doing-collective/banner/source-https-mumsgrapevine-com-au_thumbnail__Source--https-__mumsgrapevine.com.au_2020_03_bol-best-trampolines__1600x1000_bzodzq.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1777625775/doing-collective/banner/source-https-mumsgrapevine-com-au_thumbnail__Source--https-__mumsgrapevine.com.au_2020_03_bol-best-trampolines__1600x1000_bzodzq.webp"}}}},"type":{"id":"6a27d62783a077520643c47f","name":"Placemaking","slug":"placemaking","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2020-05-14T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b15c3d5e7c6517d42131bc","name":"What is the ‘new’ Relevance of Commercial Town Centres?","path":"/posts/what-is-the-new-relevance-of-commercial-town-centres","slug":"what-is-the-new-relevance-of-commercial-town-centres","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"","text":""},"content":{"text":"The rise of online commerce and food delivery service providers, etc have created new challenges most small businesses have either adapted to or struggled to adapt for various reasons. And it has all come at a cost to the relevance of commercial town centres, high streets, local shops, etc. Traditional successful high streets such as Beaufort Street and Rokeby Road in Western Australia, Chapel Street in Melbourne, and so on, are all examples of commercial centres struggling to find their way and re-establish their connection with local people and a targeted consumer audience.\n\nThe decline in retail businesses has been obvious over the past few years, especially since the establishment of Amazon and other major online retailers in the Australian commercial market. And the more recent growth in online delivery providers, such as UberEats and Deliveroo, is creating a new challenge. Some restaurants have been adapting to this new environment by relocating to light industrial suburbs with lower rents because their shopfront presence in a town centre is becoming less important. And now COVID-19…\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b15b5e5e7c6517d42131b0\" />\nImage courtesy of : https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/6707903/restrictions-will-be-long-haul-even-if-hunter-covid-19-case-numbers-continue-to-moderate/\n\nNew ‘lockdown’ measures are being implemented for the necessary safety of our wider community, but streets are empty, and the relevance of town centres in the current crisis is nearly non-existent. And although these are temporary measures, it is forcing consumers to become even more technology savvy, which can only continue to support online industries, and yet again adversely impact the relevance of high streets and commercial town centres. Oh yeah, and people are even more careful about the perceived safety of physical distancing, hygiene and cleanliness … another reason to avoid physical interaction, public transport (which are connected through town centres) and shop online instead.\n\nIs there a bright side or light at the end of the dark, windy and uncertain tunnel? Fortunately for our society, we still want to support local businesses and we still crave physical interaction – seeing other people, being outside and feeling good about our communities and place. Seeing people smile is still a contagious joy. We haven’t completely lost our society to Facebook. What I have witnessed from COVID-19 is we still like to be together and support each other, which has been publicly displayed in the huge amount of new physical distancing social interventions around the world.\n\nSo, if we can learn to work together and be together, we might find a new solution. And this will require strong leadership and the ability of Local Government, business commerce and neighbourhood community groups to come together. We need to re-write the fate of our town centres, create our own positive ‘adaptive’ nature and become even better ‘enablers’ of positive action. Putting on my own aspirational hat, possibly even allow local businesses and community to create their own future possibilities….imagine.\n\nThe online community has been relatively free to do as they wish, and it has allowed huge growth and potential. What if places could become more free, have the ability to create more change and have stronger control of their own purpose and fate? What would be the new competitive advantages of our town centres?\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b15bbe5e7c6517d42131b3\" />\n\n\nDiagram: Competitive Advantages of Online Commerce and Town Centres. Diagram courtesy of Town Team Movement\n\nWe often hear economic development, business and property organisations advocate for ‘cutting red tape’. This seems like an opportune period for local government officials to review alfresco dining laws, signage policies, parking, change of use, small event applications, etc… and maybe, just maybe (again aspirational hat is back on) throw them out the window or atleast allow more actual freedom for business and community members to more easily compete with global online competitors and innovate to emerging challenges more quickly.\n\nAnd if businesses feel more freedom and confidence to innovate, this may even create new kinds of social and creative responsibilities and opportunities to continue enhancing our public environment. Business and community leaders could even start thinking about even more robust change, the growing or evolving identity of our town centres and how we all fit into the picture of leading positive and pro-active places. And local government can learn from these new changes, new growing relationships and also continue to innovate. Woah. I’m gonna slow down.\n\nSo…what do we mean by working together to become better ‘enabler’s, which enact positive change and economic growth? Instead of working in silos or isolation, it is more about learning new ‘interdependent’ outcomes and becoming more ‘purpose seeking’. How can local government, positive business action groups and small businesses work together and create a shared purpose? And achieve that purpose? How do we take action together and re-write our own future?!?\n\nThese questions and solutions may seem challenging, however communities all over the world are building great relationships and bringing back ‘localism’ into the heart of town centres.\n\nSee below a quick example of a recent project completed in partnership with the Campbelltown City Council, Minto local community and Town Team Movement.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b15bf55e7c6517d42131b6\" />\n\nA Recovery Response for Town Centres: In summary, challenges for small businesses in town centres has not just started in the past month. Unfortunately, positive change solutions just haven’t been as necessary as they are right now and we haven’t had the opportunity to slow down to consider positive change management. This current period of ‘unknown’ could be a golden period for innovation and reclaiming back the relevance and competitive advantages of our town centres. This is an opportunity for everyone to play a bigger role in kickstarting our town centres.\n\n```\nThe prosperity of your business is directly related to how many people are in your street. And that depends on ‘the vibe’ in the street or ‘sense of place’. Build the quality and diversity of the experience package on offer in your street and you will see the dividends.\n\n- David Engwicht\n```\n\nBelow are a few of our ideas:\n\n1. **Empowerment, not just Engagement**\n\nLet’s start new with our engagement approach. I think we can all do a better job of listening and co-designing new ideas and solutions. And engagement doesn’t just happen on a survey or whiteboard. The best engagement could be watching people vote with their feet and community delivering their own projects to improve their place. Let’s test this new approach and allow the community to come up with COVID-19 recovery action programs.\n\n1. **Break the rules & make it easy to innovate**\n\nWe know some council policies are outdated. Let’s not just think about cutting red tape, let’s use this time to rejuvenate the regulatory framework and allow small businesses more freedom and opportunities to innovate and be better prepared for a post-lockout environment.\n\n1. **An enabling leadership approach**\n\nThis is an opportune period for self-reflection, compassion and a review of our leadership approach and ‘purpose seeking’ outlook. Are we doing things to follow a process or to create great outcomes? The response might lead to more enabling outcomes for our community.\n\n1. **Business and Community Grants – Let the community lead the future of your town centres**\n\nEconomic and Community stimulus is still going to be necessary when this whole mess is over. Review your current grants, how they can be more accessible and aimed at creating better town centres for small businesses and people.\n\n1. **Experiment with new Ideas – don’t be afraid to fail fast, fail cheap and always ask for public feedback**\n\nTactical urbanism has been around for a while, but we haven’t really taken advantage of the benefits. We’ve been told to support creative and construction industries, so now is a great opportunity to trial new low-cost infrastructure projects to redesign our streets and make them more adaptive and innovative for a new environment. How can technology help us review these outcomes and make better decisions in the future of public space outcomes?\n\nThe conclusion (I know, finally!) Maybe I’m writing this with my head too far in the clouds… or maybe robust positive change can actually be a reality. Most of these ideas do not require huge budgets or massive changes in leadership (or more process!!! – do more by doing less), but it does require a new approach.\n\nAn approach focused on outcomes, purpose and community and business collaboration. A shared future and a shared opportunity to shape the successful future of town centres. It’s time to really get started and push forward.\n\n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"The rise of online commerce and food delivery service providers, etc have created new challenges most small businesses have either adapted to or struggled to adapt for various reasons. And it has all come at a cost to the relevance of commercial town centres, high streets, local shops, etc. Traditional successful high streets such as Beaufort Street and Rokeby Road in Western Australia, Chapel Street in Melbourne, and so on, are all examples of commercial centres struggling to find their way and re-establish their connection with local people and a targeted consumer audience.\nThe decline in retail businesses has been obvious over the past few years, especially since the establishment of Amazon and other major online retailers in the Australian commercial market. And the more recent growth in online delivery providers, such as UberEats and Deliveroo, is creating a new challenge. Some restaurants have been adapting to this new environment by relocating to light industrial suburbs with lower rents because their shopfront presence in a town centre is becoming less important. And now COVID-19…\n\nImage courtesy of : https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/6707903/restrictions-will-be-long-haul-even-if-hunter-covid-19-case-numbers-continue-to-moderate/\n\nNew ‘lockdown’ measures are being implemented for the necessary safety of our wider community, but streets are empty, and the relevance of town centres in the current crisis is nearly non-existent. And although these are temporary measures, it is forcing consumers to become even more technology savvy, which can only continue to support online industries, and yet again adversely impact the relevance of high streets and commercial town centres. Oh yeah, and people are even more careful about the perceived safety of physical distancing, hygiene and cleanliness … another reason to avoid physical interaction, public transport (which are connected through town centres) and shop online instead.\nIs there a bright side or light at the end of the dark, windy and uncertain tunnel? Fortunately for our society, we still want to support local businesses and we still crave physical interaction – seeing other people, being outside and feeling good about our communities and place. Seeing people smile is still a contagious joy. We haven’t completely lost our society to Facebook. What I have witnessed from COVID-19 is we still like to be together and support each other, which has been publicly displayed in the huge amount of new physical distancing social interventions around the world.\nSo, if we can learn to work together and be together, we might find a new solution. And this will require strong leadership and the ability of Local Government, business commerce and neighbourhood community groups to come together. We need to re-write the fate of our town centres, create our own positive ‘adaptive’ nature and become even better ‘enablers’ of positive action. Putting on my own aspirational hat, possibly even allow local businesses and community to create their own future possibilities….imagine.\nThe online community has been relatively free to do as they wish, and it has allowed huge growth and potential. What if places could become more free, have the ability to create more change and have stronger control of their own purpose and fate? What would be the new competitive advantages of our town centres?\n\n\n\nDiagram: Competitive Advantages of Online Commerce and Town Centres. Diagram courtesy of Town Team Movement\nWe often hear economic development, business and property organisations advocate for ‘cutting red tape’. This seems like an opportune period for local government officials to review alfresco dining laws, signage policies, parking, change of use, small event applications, etc… and maybe, just maybe (again aspirational hat is back on) throw them out the window or atleast allow more actual freedom for business and community members to more easily compete with global online competitors and innovate to emerging challenges more quickly.\nAnd if businesses feel more freedom and confidence to innovate, this may even create new kinds of social and creative responsibilities and opportunities to continue enhancing our public environment. Business and community leaders could even start thinking about even more robust change, the growing or evolving identity of our town centres and how we all fit into the picture of leading positive and pro-active places. And local government can learn from these new changes, new growing relationships and also continue to innovate. Woah. I’m gonna slow down.\nSo…what do we mean by working together to become better ‘enabler’s, which enact positive change and economic growth? Instead of working in silos or isolation, it is more about learning new ‘interdependent’ outcomes and becoming more ‘purpose seeking’. How can local government, positive business action groups and small businesses work together and create a shared purpose? And achieve that purpose? How do we take action together and re-write our own future?!?\nThese questions and solutions may seem challenging, however communities all over the world are building great relationships and bringing back ‘localism’ into the heart of town centres.\nSee below a quick example of a recent project completed in partnership with the Campbelltown City Council, Minto local community and Town Team Movement.\n\n\nA Recovery Response for Town Centres: In summary, challenges for small businesses in town centres has not just started in the past month. Unfortunately, positive change solutions just haven’t been as necessary as they are right now and we haven’t had the opportunity to slow down to consider positive change management. This current period of ‘unknown’ could be a golden period for innovation and reclaiming back the relevance and competitive advantages of our town centres. This is an opportunity for everyone to play a bigger role in kickstarting our town centres.\nThe prosperity of your business is directly related to how many people are in your street. And that depends on ‘the vibe’ in the street or ‘sense of place’. Build the quality and diversity of the experience package on offer in your street and you will see the dividends.\n\n- David EngwichtBelow are a few of our ideas:\n\nEmpowerment, not just Engagement\n\nLet’s start new with our engagement approach. I think we can all do a better job of listening and co-designing new ideas and solutions. And engagement doesn’t just happen on a survey or whiteboard. The best engagement could be watching people vote with their feet and community delivering their own projects to improve their place. Let’s test this new approach and allow the community to come up with COVID-19 recovery action programs.\n\nBreak the rules &amp; make it easy to innovate\n\nWe know some council policies are outdated. Let’s not just think about cutting red tape, let’s use this time to rejuvenate the regulatory framework and allow small businesses more freedom and opportunities to innovate and be better prepared for a post-lockout environment.\n\nAn enabling leadership approach\n\nThis is an opportune period for self-reflection, compassion and a review of our leadership approach and ‘purpose seeking’ outlook. Are we doing things to follow a process or to create great outcomes? The response might lead to more enabling outcomes for our community.\n\nBusiness and Community Grants – Let the community lead the future of your town centres\n\nEconomic and Community stimulus is still going to be necessary when this whole mess is over. Review your current grants, how they can be more accessible and aimed at creating better town centres for small businesses and people.\n\nExperiment with new Ideas – don’t be afraid to fail fast, fail cheap and always ask for public feedback\n\nTactical urbanism has been around for a while, but we haven’t really taken advantage of the benefits. We’ve been told to support creative and construction industries, so now is a great opportunity to trial new low-cost infrastructure projects to redesign our streets and make them more adaptive and innovative for a new environment. How can technology help us review these outcomes and make better decisions in the future of public space outcomes?\nThe conclusion (I know, finally!) Maybe I’m writing this with my head too far in the clouds… or maybe robust positive change can actually be a reality. Most of these ideas do not require huge budgets or massive changes in leadership (or more process!!! – do more by doing less), but it does require a new approach.\nAn approach focused on outcomes, purpose and community and business collaboration. A shared future and a shared opportunity to shape the successful future of town centres. It’s time to really get started and push forward.\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1773231407/doing-collective/banner/towns-centres_image__towns_centres_pgfusg.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1773231407/doing-collective/banner/towns-centres_image__towns_centres_pgfusg.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1773231407/doing-collective/banner/towns-centres_image__towns_centres_pgfusg.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1773231407/doing-collective/banner/towns-centres_image__towns_centres_pgfusg.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1773231407/doing-collective/banner/towns-centres_image__towns_centres_pgfusg.webp"}}}},"type":{"id":"6a27d62783a077520643c47f","name":"Placemaking","slug":"placemaking","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2020-04-24T00:00:00.00","authors":[]},{"id":"69b1cd6b5e7c6517d42131fb","name":"Action in a Time of Isolation","path":"/posts/action-in-a-time-of-isolation","slug":"action-in-a-time-of-isolation","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"TTM recently hosted three online webinars to identify ways we can take action as individuals and as communities during the COVID-19 crisis. Here are the themes that emerged, which are backed up with specific actions we can all help with.\n","text":"TTM recently hosted three online webinars to identify ways we can take action as individuals and as communities during the COVID-19 crisis. Here are the themes that emerged, which are backed up with specific actions we can all help with."},"content":{"text":"<ImageAsset id=\"69b1cd0b5e7c6517d42131f8\" />\nA huge thanks! to the brilliant TTM volunteer network who contributed their time and energy to develop these themes. It’s important to remember that social distancing means physical distancing, not isolating yourself so that you see nobody or avoid social connections. Noone can survive alone. We need to take care of each other and our communities. We will get through this!"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"TTM recently hosted three online webinars to identify ways we can take action as individuals and as communities during the COVID-19 crisis. Here are the themes that emerged, which are backed up with specific actions we can all help with.\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"69f82d67dd6cda552a6bed84","name":"News","slug":"news","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2020-04-24T00:00:00.00","authors":[]},{"id":"69b1cfe25e7c6517d421320d","name":"How to make a video on your phone","path":"/posts/how-to-make-a-video-on-your-phone","slug":"how-to-make-a-video-on-your-phone","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"Videos are a great way to share stories and experiences, and creating videos is more accessible than ever because most people have a camera on their phone.\n","text":"Videos are a great way to share stories and experiences, and creating videos is more accessible than ever because most people have a camera on their phone."},"content":{"text":"We’ve included some links to sample products to help give a sense of what you need to create a higher quality video. However, there’s a great saying from videographers that you’re a pro when you’re using homemade solutions – aluminum foil, gaffa tape, cardboard, etc. So get creative!\n\n\nIf you want to create a video that is of good quality to share on social media, please think about and do these five things:\n\n\n**1. LIGHTING**\n\n\nGetting the lighting right can make or break the video. The aim here is to light the person’s face or torso, with limited shadows. Often you can work with natural light, and lamps can be used as well.\n\n\n- The person should be facing the light source. If their back is to the light it creates shadows.\n-  If it is a gray and rainy day, you’re in luck! That’s perfect for filming because it diffuses light evenly.\n- If filming outdoors, be aware of the sun and aim to film within three hours of sun rise or sun set so that the person you’re filming doesn’t squint or glare.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1ce7c5e7c6517d4213201\" />\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1ceb65e7c6517d4213204\" />\n\n\n**2. AUDIO**\n\nEven bad lighting can be managed in post production, but, the one thing that cannot be fixed easily is audio quality. The main way to fix audio and get a cleaner recording is to get an external microphone.\n\n\nA small lavier microphone plugs into your phone jack and then attaches to the collar of the person you are interviewing. When attaching the microphone, try to hide it inside the shirt or behind the shoulder of the person – having a cord hanging across the person can be distracting to the viewer.\n\n\nLastly, always do an audio test. Record a bit of the person and then play it back so you can make any necessary adjustments before capturing the wonderful content.\n\n\nHere are some sample microphones:\n\n- [Lavier omnidirectional microphone](https://www.amazon.com.au/Microphone-Seacue-Omnidirectional-Condenser-Smartphones/dp/B0727Z8TMX/ref=asc_df_B0727Z8TMX/?tag=googleshopdsk-22&linkCode=df0&hvadid=341773378240&hvpos=1o4&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5750139781577685946&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1000676&hvtargid=pla-383474455629&psc=1)\n- [BOYA lavier microphone](https://www.ebay.com.au/p/13020149235?iid=401942022594&chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=705-139619-5960-0&mkcid=2&itemid=401942022594&targetid=835144767810&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=1000676&poi=&campaignid=7408627119&mkgroupid=86410136128&rlsatarget=pla-835144767810&abcId=1139226&merchantid=9513642&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrZ3H46K05wIV2RwrCh0q0w4aEAQYBSABEgIsAPD_BwE)\n- And [an extension](https://www.amazon.com.au/FosPower-Auxiliary-4-Conductor-Extension-Connectors/dp/B01552UGKG/ref=asc_df_B01552UGKG/?tag=googleshopdsk-22&linkCode=df0&hvadid=341774328163&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4668740084508086131&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1000676&hvtargid=pla-348703473499&psc=1) if you’re interviewing at a distance.\n\n\n**3. FRAMING** First off, as counter-intuitive as it may seem, for social media posts a horizontal video is best. It fits across the Facebook newsfeed much better and doesn’t have the distracting gray bars on either side. Have you ever heard of the photographer’s rule of three? Basically, it says that if you divide your screen into a 9-box grid, the item of focus should be along the lines. Same principle here:\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1cf2e5e7c6517d4213207\" />\n\nAnother note, if the recording is planned ahead please ask your interviewee to wear solid colors as patterns don’t record as well.\n\n\n**4. STABILITY**\n\n\nNext, we need to make your phone camera as stable as possible. There are a few ways to do that:\n\n\n- **Tripod:** There are a variety of tripods from the more traditional to fun and flexible models. Ensure it has an adapter if needed to hold a phone.\n- **Gimbal:** If you want to have stability while moving, a gimbal will help minimize the movement and create a smooth video. There are expensive and less expensive options.\n- **Books, shelves, tape, etc:** Build your own stability! My go-to is a stack of books with a bit of tape to hold the camera upright. Remember that you’ll want to see the video to check the framing!\n- **Braced arm:** If you don’t have any equipment and you’re on the go, another option is to lock your elbow into your hip or chest, or perhaps lock it steady with your other hand. Beware of breathing movement with this one, but at least it will prevent a tired arm and random dipping of the video.\n\n\n\n**5**. **SCRIPT OR QUESTIONS**\n\n\nNow into the content. In advance, prepare a list of questions or a short script that you would like to record.\n\n\nAs the interviewer, ask the questions and then make it a leading statement so you get the interviewee saying a complete sentence. For example, instead of “Why did you join the Town Team?” ask “Can you restate and then complete this sentence – I joined my Town Team because…” That way you get complete thoughts from the interviewee and in the microphone.\n\n\nIf you’re recording a Town Teamer testimonial, we recommend starting with some of these prompts:\n\n\n● Why did you get involved in the first place?\n○ I got involved with my local Town Team because….\n\n\n● What is the best part of #doership/makeithappen? ○ The best part of getting things done is…\n\n\n● How has being in a Town Team affected how you feel about your area? ○ Being in a Town Team has affected how I feel…\n\n\n● What impact has the Town Team had on [PLACE]?\n○ The impact our Town Team has had on [PLACE] is…\n\n\n● If you could wave a magic wand and create anything in your community, what would it be? If I could do anything, I would create…"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Videos are a great way to share stories and experiences, and creating videos is more accessible than ever because most people have a camera on their phone.\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1773260756/doing-collective/banner/how-to-make-a-video-banner_image__how_to_make_a_video_banner_ci6r01.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1773260756/doing-collective/banner/how-to-make-a-video-banner_image__how_to_make_a_video_banner_ci6r01.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1773260756/doing-collective/banner/how-to-make-a-video-banner_image__how_to_make_a_video_banner_ci6r01.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1773260756/doing-collective/banner/how-to-make-a-video-banner_image__how_to_make_a_video_banner_ci6r01.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1773260756/doing-collective/banner/how-to-make-a-video-banner_image__how_to_make_a_video_banner_ci6r01.webp"}}}},"type":{"id":"69f82cf2dd6cda552a6bed6b","name":"How-to guide","slug":"how-to-guide","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2020-04-24T00:00:00.00","authors":[]},{"id":"69b1d11d5e7c6517d4213217","name":"37 Placemaking Ideas to Improve Your Place (That Aren’t Events)","path":"/posts/37-placemaking-ideas-to-improve-your-place-that-arent-events","slug":"37-placemaking-ideas-to-improve-your-place-that-arent-events","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"It’s fairly easy to think of event ideas – holding a street party, hosting a SOUP or putting on a festival or markets. But what about non-event ideas?\n","text":"It’s fairly easy to think of event ideas – holding a street party, hosting a SOUP or putting on a festival or markets. But what about non-event ideas?"},"content":{"text":"Here is a list of random ideas to get your creative juices flowing. Some ideas you can do by yourself and others could be for your new or existing Town Team.\n\nRemember, embrace the lack of money and keep it simple! Have fun! Creativity can slash costs AND build community at the same time!\n\n|      | **Idea**                                                     | **How It Could Work**                                        |\n| ---- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| 1    | Regular walks around the neighbourhood                       | An area feels better when we see other people outside. Make the effort to say hello or smile at people as you walk by |\n| 2    | Play with your kids in the front yard, rather than inside or in the backyard. | This will create instant action on your street! Kids are often the best [placemakers](https://www.townteammovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/How-to-be-a-placemaker-Town-Team-Movement.pdf). Let them play out the front and invite some neighbours over. Playing on the footpath is even better! Reclaim the street for people |\n| 3    | [Eyebomb an object](https://eyebombing.com/)                 | Eyebombing is a playful way to engage with your area. It’s basically putting googly-eyes on objects. [Check out the webpage for examples](http://www.eyebombing.com/) |\n| 4    | [Play Streets](https://www.playstreetsaustralia.com/)        | [Closing a neighbourhood street](https://www.playstreetsaustralia.com/) for a morning or afternoon is a fantastic way to encourage kids outside. It’s also a good way to meet your neighbours |\n| 5    | [Jane’s Walks](https://janeswalk.org/) (host a local walking tour) | A [Jane’s Walk](https://janeswalk.org/) is a hosted walk around a neighbourhood, hearing from local people at various stops along the way. Someone might explain some of the history, a business owner might tell you about what they do and why. It’s pretty easy to organise and manage |\n| 6    | [Plant a verge (or nature strip) garden](https://www.watercorporation.com.au/save-water/in-the-garden/creating-a-waterwise-verge) | Some local governments are very supportive of verge gardens, others are a bit more wary. But, hey are such good ways to green your area, promote biodiversity, promote social streets and build community, it might be worth doing anyway |\n| 7    | Verge garden competition                                     | The next step would be to run a competition. Who has the best verge garden? The prize doesn’t need to be big. Bragging rights for a year could be it! |\n| 8    | Christmas lights competition                                 | While we are talking about competitions, what about running a local competition to encourage Christmas lights or decorations? Or it could be for another festival or commemoration. |\n| 9    | [Name the Lanes competition](https://imagine.vincent.wa.gov.au/name-the-lanes) | There are plenty of unnamed laneways, patches of dirt or other weird public spaces. Let’s choose a name. It doesn’t have to be an official process. Lois Lane is often a popular choice. |\n| 10   | [Set Up a Street Library](https://streetlibrary.org.au/)     | [Street libraries](https://streetlibrary.org.au/) are one of those things that indicate that people here really care. A street library is a quirky container full of books to swap. Put one in and then take one out. |\n| 11   | Swap Shop                                                    | A Swap Shop is the same idea as a Street Library. It could be anything, not just books that are being swapped. Maybe a lemon for some chalk? |\n| 12   | Chalk it up                                                  | Kids love chalk. Let them go nuts on the footpath along your street. This will encourage parents and others out on to the street. The street can go from dead to vibrant by adding chalk and kids (other ideas could make it even better) |\n| 13   | [Yarn bombing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bombing)   | Yarn bombing is type of street art that uses crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk. Knitters make brilliant (yarn) bombers |\n| 14   | [Guerrilla gardens](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-11/guerrilla-garden-transforms-bayswater-desert-into-green-space/8886282) | Guerrilla gardens are unofficial gardens set up by local people. They could be succulents in a street tree well, seed bombs or full-scale space reclamations. Find a space and see what you could plant. Remember, ongoing care of the space is important, otherwise plants will quickly die |\n| 15   | Plant some trees                                             | This idea might need some permission and support from your local government. They might even give you the trees. Work with local environmental groups to make sure you do it right |\n| 16   | Create art on a seat with colourful duct tape                | You don’t have to go as extreme as [Berlin’s “SelfMadeCrew”,](https://tape-art-ostap.com/en/tape-art-gallery/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuODdis-F5wIVESUrCh1vHwWQEAAYASAAEgLT3fD_BwE) but some colourful duct tape could help to soften some boring seat benches |\n| 17   | Run a Shop Local Campaign                                    | Shopping local has many economic, social and environment benefits for a local area. Help organise small businesses in the area to get involved |\n| 18   | Create a community-led Place Improvement Action Plan         | Work with your Town Team or group to create a simple Action Plan. Who will do what by when? This can help get more people on board and attract funding. TTM can provide a free Action Plan template. |\n| 19   | Pick up some rubbish                                         | It’s pretty easy to pick up a piece of rubbish. Sure, you don’t have to pick up everything, or clean the whole street, but every little bit helps. It’s better for our environment too |\n| 20   | Arrange some drinks/nibbles with neighbours on the verge (nature strip) or in a local park | Relax and meet new people with a simple social catch up      |\n| 21   | Create a Box City for kids                                   | Grab some old packing boxes, assemble them with some tape and let the kids go crazy. Hours of fun |\n| 22   | Create a social seat                                         | Super easy! Find a seat (preferably placed in a social spot) and put a simple sign on saying you are happy to talk if you sit on this seat. Then give it a go |\n| 23   | Smile at a stranger when they walk by                        | Super simple! Just smile at someone                          |\n| 24   | Encourage local businesses to bring out some pot plants or put planter boxes on the footpath | Businesses that engage with and add to the street are more likely to make a sale |\n| 25   | Host a best-dressed shop window competition                  | Encourage local businesses to make a special effort to dress up their shop window or façade. [Subiaction](http://www.subiaction.org.au/) encouraged local businesses to “paint the town pink” during their Subilicious event |\n|      | **Food**                                                     |                                                              |\n| 26   | [Create a Food Forest](https://www.domain.com.au/living/the-communities-across-australia-creating-food-forests-and-guerilla-gardens-20171117-gzmrmy/) | Australia is a rich country indeed if we can outlaw the growing of food on public land. Work with your local government to find land to plant fruit trees and then help care for them |\n| 27   | Herbs grown in planters                                      | Grow herbs in planter outside your home, business or in your town centre |\n| 28   | Create a community garden                                    | Everyone loves a community garden! But it can take a lot of work. So, make sure you are well prepared. Or start small and go from there |\n|      | **Community-building**                                       |                                                              |\n| 29   | [Hallway dinners in apartment blocks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDuA9OPyp6I) | Live in an apartment? Why not bring your dinner out into the hallway as a way to meet and share a few laughs with your neighbours |\n| 30   | Create a positive Facebook page/group for local people and businesses | Social media can be a good way to connect your community, but make sure it is positive! |\n| 31   | Story-telling nights around a campfire                       | This is an idea for the colder months. Find a suitable place for a campfire and encourage people to tell stories |\n| 32   | Promote or get involved with [Garage Sale Trail](https://www.garagesaletrail.com.au/) | The [Garage Sale Trail](https://www.garagesaletrail.com.au/) is a weekend of garage sales around Australia. Make some money, meet some people and declutter! (Town Teams can use it as a fundraiser) |\n| 33   | [Community plant swap](https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/projects/participating-in-plant-swaps.htm) | Garden enthusiasts love to get together to talk about and share plants. A community plant swap is like a swap meet for plants |\n| 34   | Book club                                                    | Create a book club                                           |\n| 35   | Working bee to improve a space                               | Find a space that needs some love and do a blitz on it       |\n| 36   | Create a new tradition for your street/place                 | OK this is a bit different. But use your imagination ….      |\n| 37   | Put a seat out on your verge or nature strip                 | Encourage people to linger a while. Maybe put some kids toys out or create a small nature play area. Welcome people and they usually come |\n\n\n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"It’s fairly easy to think of event ideas – holding a street party, hosting a SOUP or putting on a festival or markets. 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Thank you to everyone who has been part of or supported a local team. Be part of something bigger! Anyway, here are some of our highlights from 2019.\n","text":"And our TTM team has grown from one employee to five passionate doers.\n\nWe are infinitely grateful to the heroes of the movement, the Town Team volunteers who continue to #makeithappen in their local communities. Thank you to everyone who has been part of or supported a local team. Be part of something bigger! Anyway, here are some of our highlights from 2019."},"content":{"text":"<ImageAsset id=\"69b1d2325e7c6517d421321e\" />\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1d2725e7c6517d4213221\" />\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1d2a05e7c6517d4213224\" />\n\n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"And our TTM team has grown from one employee to five passionate doers.\nWe are infinitely grateful to the heroes of the movement, the Town Team volunteers who continue to #makeithappen in their local communities. Thank you to everyone who has been part of or supported a local team. Be part of something bigger! Anyway, here are some of our highlights from 2019.\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"69f82d1bdd6cda552a6bed70","name":"Event","slug":"event","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2019-12-08T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1d9d05e7c6517d42132fa","name":" Places are Systems","path":"/posts/places-are-systems","slug":"places-are-systems","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"Last week, we posted on why we believe Places Are Not Machines. This week we’ll explain why systems thinking can help leaders, community groups and governments deliver better outcomes for places and communities.\n","text":"Last week, we posted on why we believe [Places Are Not Machines](https://www.townteammovement.com/places-arent-machines/). This week we’ll explain why systems thinking can help leaders, community groups and governments deliver better outcomes for places and communities."},"content":{"text":"**Ecosystems are Complex Systems**\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1d8965e7c6517d42132c3\" />\nPhoto source: https://ab.co/2ZcIbQX\n\nEcosystems such as rainforests and coral reefs are **complex**. There are many different species of plants, animals, fish, bacteria, fungi and more in a small area. Sometimes they form symbiotic relationships (bees and flowering plants), sometimes they consume each other. A complex ecosystem can’t be properly understood using linear thinking and processes.\n\n**Places are just as complex**. Just think of all the people involved, the buildings, the history, cultures, climate, the economic, social and environmental factors. And the rules, governance frameworks and relationships. Every place is different. It is not possible to understand the system just by knowing about the parts.\n\n### Complicated and Complex are Not the Same\n\nWe never understood the difference between complicated and complex. But, it turns out they are very different. We’ll need to understand the very basics of systems theory and the differences between **complicated** and **complex** to pick up on why places are better thought of as systems rather than machines. Here goes!\n\n> **Complicated problems** (like sending a rocket to the moon), are different. Their complicated nature is often related not only to the scale of the problem, but also to their increased requirements around coordination or specialized expertise. However, rockets are similar to each other and because of this, following one success there can be a relatively high degree of certainty of outcome repetition.\n>\n> **Complex systems** are based on relationships, and their properties of self-organisation, interconnections and evolution. Research into complex systems demonstrates that they cannot be understood solely by simple or complicated approaches to evidence, policy, planning and management.\n>\n> Source and read more at [learningforsustainability.net](http://values.https//learningforsustainability.net/post/complicated-complex/)\n\nGovernments have spent decades creating structures and processes to manage **complicated** problems (such as building infrastructure, enforcing regulation, creating departments and taskforces), but now find themselves facing **complex** problems, such a loneliness, loss of trust in institutions, social isolation, public health, climate change, terrorism and economic disruption.\n\nTraditional management approaches have limited effectiveness when faced with complex problems. Conventional approaches simplify complex problems into what are considered to be their constituent parts and manage them through often piecemeal interventions, layered one on top of another (Working with Change Systems: approaches to public sector challenges: OECD 2017). A reductionist, linear approach cannot hope to adequately address these issues. It sometimes makes problems even worse.\n\n> Linear thinking is cause and effect thinking: One cause has one effect. Sometimes it works adequately, as when you run out of gas and your car stops. Your car stopped (effect) because it had no gas (cause). If you put gas in again, your car will run. Linear thinking is quite effective in solving this kind of problem.\n>\n> However, our world is made of many complex relationships and interrelationships. Systems thinking provides a perspective that, most of the time, various components affect each other in various, and often unexpected, ways.\n>\n> Making the Jump to Systems Thinking by Jim Ollhoff and Michael Walcheski\n\n### Visual Analogy to Show Places as Systems\n\nIn the previous blog post, we represented the [Place as a Machine approach](https://www.townteammovement.com/places-arent-machines/) by using a factory production line. A factory requires expert knowledge to design, build and operate and then produces relatively consistent, standardised outputs based on raw materials or unprocessed inputs. It is complicated, but also logical, linear and generally predictable. A key aim of a factory is to maximise efficiency through process optimisation, which is often the goal of bureaucracies as well.\n\nHow could we visually represent the Place as a System model? The first idea was to represent it by illustrating it as a rainforest. But, a rainforest in its natural state, basically looks after itself with no obvious conscious custodianship. The analogy doesn’t work in human settings, where governments and other actors can (and should) play an obvious role in maintaining and improving the system.\n\nWe therefore chose to represent the Place as a System model by representing it visually as a garden.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1d8eb5e7c6517d42132c9\" />\n\n> ‘Enablement: how governments can achieve more by letting go’, by Adrian Brown – https://bit.ly/2Ykwkjf\n\n### The Role of Government in the Systems Approach\n\nThe role of governments in this approach is similar to a sensitive and experienced gardener. This is a vital role and what is not done can be just as significant as what is done. Who does what and how it is done are also important.\n\nThe garden analogy has been used by various thinkers and writers. Michael Barber wrote an instructive book titled ‘How To Run a Government So That Citizens Benefits and Taxpayers Don’t Go Crazy’. The book discusses how government can succeed in the making real improvements to the lives of their citizens. In his view, the role of governments should move from *prescribing* and *justifying* in the “Awful to Adequate” phase of governance to *regulating* and *building capacity* in the “Adequate to Good” phase and finally *enabling* and *incentivising* in the “Good to Great” phase, which aims for world-class performance and continuous learning (see pages 94-96).\n\nGovernments can be thought of as having three critical roles in managing change:\n\n1. Make change\n2. Prevent change\n3. Allow or enable change\n\nThe systems approach encourages governments to allow and enable change more often, and do less of the making and preventing change.\n\nThe gardener should curate and nurture the right conditions to allow many types of plants, animals and fungi to thrive and collaborate. As a long-term thinker, the gardener seeks to sustain and regenerate her organic garden. Sometimes a gardener’s role is to stand back and watch the garden grow, intervening at the right time and season to enable her plants to grow. Doing less can enable more growth in the right situations.\n\n### The Role of Businesses and the Community in the Systems Approach\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1d94a5e7c6517d42132de\" />\n> Marcus Westbury, founder of Renew Newcastle and author of Creating Cities\n\nCreating great places and communities is everyone’s responsibility.\n\nThe Place as a System model encourages businesses and the community to build cooperative relationships (wherever possible), take on more responsibilities and be active and positive contributors to society.\n\nA passive or negative role **reduces**, whereas positive contributions **create** and **build** social, economic and environmental capital.\n\nThat doesn’t mean that every person must or should contribute an equal amount. The role of the sensitive gardener is to enable each actor to contribute to the best of their ability and opportunity (or as close as possible to).\n\nThe divergences between the Places as Machines (Service Delivery Mindset) and Places as Systems (Enabling Mindset) models are striking.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1d9975e7c6517d42132ed\" />\n\n### So What? Why Does This Matter?\n\nOur current government, regulatory and corporate structures have been set up to respond to complicated problems. But now we have complex problems, as we have explained above.\n\nPressures are building around the world – climate change, social breakdown, ageing populations, a growing mountain of debt, economic disruption, loss of trust in the system and conflict.\n\nA business as usual approach based on a complicated problem diagnosis will not only not address the issues, it may exacerbate the challenges to be met. We need to adapt and change.\n\n> The enabling mindset represents a radical shift in authority, accountability and agency from those at the top to those lower down the system. It argues for humility about what can be achieved when power is aggregated, and challenges us to raise our expectations about what can be achieved through collaboration and cooperation. It suggests that systems can become self-improving rather than relying on top-down management and control.\n>\n> ‘Enablement: how governments can achieve more by letting go’, by Adrian Brown – https://bit.ly/2Ykwkjf\n\nFor places, it means that:\n\n- Simple answers (or silver bullet solutions) like “free parking!” are bound to fail\n- The expectation that governments can or should “fix the problem” won’t work. Governments should do less and enable more\n- We need to think of places as complex systems\n- Prioritise actions and “quick failures” rather than preparing static masterplans or expecting “someone else” to do it all\n- Empowering people to act and have a go should be the new norm\n- Place is a key organising principle and a place-led approach is a [pragmatic method to improve the system](https://www.townteammovement.com/improvingdemocracy/)\n- Placemaking as both an ethos and a practical, quick and relatively cheap means of creating change should be ‘core business’\n\n### Local Government Leading the Discussion\n\nThe local government sector is leading the way. The **[Future of Local Government Declaration](https://www.mav.asn.au/what-we-do/sector-development/future-of-local-government)** states that:\n\n> **Many of the solutions can only be found within communities, and central governments must respect and leave space for local action and innovation.**\n>\n> Local government has made a good start in addressing these issues, but must work hard to build on its achievements. Councils have a unique mandate to support, represent and give voice to ‘communities of place’. They can provide an ideal platform for governments at all levels to strengthen their engagement with communities – and there is also a real opportunity to bring about a renaissance in local government itself. But the world is changing fast: democratic legitimacy and trust must be earned.\n>\n> https://www.mav.asn.au/what-we-do/sector-development/future-of-local-government"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Last week, we posted on why we believe Places Are Not Machines. 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The whole could be understood by breaking things in to pieces, studying each part intensely to better understand it and aiming for control and consistency.\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1da965e7c6517d4213320\" />\n\nA factory production line is a good representation of this worldview. A factory requires expert knowledge to design, build and operate and then produces relatively consistent, standardised outputs based on raw materials or unprocessed inputs. It is logical, linear and generally predictable. A key aim of a factory is to maximise efficiency through process optimisation.\n\n> ‘Reinventing Organizations’ by Frederic Laloux\n\n### The Role of Government in the Machine Approach\n\nThe role of governments in this approach is similar to a factory manager. Given the machine is very complicated, places should be controlled and managed by knowledgeable experts employed in service-delivery silos in centralised bureaucracies. You need an engineer to design a bridge or a road. You need an urban planner to zone land, manage regulations and process applications. You employ a works crew to maintain parks and streetscapes etc.\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1dac05e7c6517d421332c\" />\nService-based, departmental silos are notoriously difficult to break down\n\n> By examining the evidence of what works and what doesn’t, designing services based on this understanding, and managing those services efficiently, the logic runs that we are likely to achieve better outcomes for citizens.\n>\n> The delivery mindset holds that citizens can be thought of as customers of public services, and the same tools of process optimisation can be applied to a welfare service, for example as to a bank.”\n>\n> ‘Enablement: how governments can achieve more by letting go’, by Adrian Brown – https://bit.ly/2Ykwkjf\n\nThe [Centre for Public Impact](https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/) summarises the key characteristics of the Places as Machines or service delivery model:\n\n1. Aim to maximise efficiency through process optimisation\n2. Outcomes are the result of clear, predictable linear processes\n3. The customer is to be serviced and should be the focus of the process\n4. Centralisation manages risk and delivers economies of scale\n5. Control who can do what via strict hierarchies, plans and regulations\n6. Aim for best practice via benchmarking and ‘scorecards’\n7. Deliver consistency, predictability and accountability\n8. The organsiation is typified by expert-led, service-delivery silos\n\nThis approach works well with logical, engineering-based services such as sewerage systems, roads and rubbish collection. Given the lack of these basic services 100 or even 50 years ago, the past dominance of this approach to deliver necessary services to people is understandable.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1db025e7c6517d4213338\" />\nMassive infrastructure projects aim to optimise the machine.\nPhoto from www.strongtowns.org\n\nBut, the machine or service delivery model doesn’t work very well with more complex issues, such as:\n\n- Loneliness and social isolation\n- Loss of community\n- Mental health\n- Physical health\n- Climate change\n- Environmental degradation\n- Placemaking (defined as per the [Project for Public Spaces definition](https://www.pps.org/article/what-is-placemaking))\n- Entrepreneurship\n- Innovation\n\nThese kinds of issues can’t be solved by one group of of people using logical, linear, predictable processes. They require a far more holistic and integrated approach based on systems thinking.\n\n> ‘Enablement: how governments can achieve more by letting go’, by Adrian Brown – https://bit.ly/2Ykwkjf\n\n### The Place as a Machine Approach to Car Parking\n\nTake car parking an example. In the ‘place as a machine’ approach, the aim is to ‘predict and provide’ – predict how many motorists would like to drive to a place (assuming there are no costs to park a car) and then provide the ‘required’ number of car bays to meet the predicted ‘demand’. Once this ‘scientific’ assessment is undertaken, it is then codified into regulations and applied consistently to all places, without regard to their context.\n\n[10 Car Parking Myths Busted!](https://www.townteammovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/10-Parking-Myths-Busted-Urban-Design-Forum-article.pdf)[Download](https://www.townteammovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/10-Parking-Myths-Busted-Urban-Design-Forum-article.pdf)\n\nBut, even something as seemingly simple as car parking doesn’t follow logical, linear, predictable outcomes. Because free car parking is basically enforced by regulation, driving is directly encouraged and subsidised, feeding traffic congestion and “parking problems”. Bigger roads are deemed necessary, which feeds further traffic congestion based on [induced demand](https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/09/citylab-university-induced-demand/569455/). Motorists think they can drive and park everywhere for free. The people who don’t drive end up subsidising the motorists who do drive. The approach delivers perverse outcomes and usually creates more problems than it aims to fix.\n\nThere is plenty of research to support the contention that the machine approach doesn’t work in complex systems such as cities and ecosystems.\n\n### The Role of Businesses and the Community in the Machine Approach\n\nThe role of businesses and the community is to passively fund the ever-more-complicated machine. Pleas for “someone to do something” about Issue X require more inputs (usually money) into the machine to “solve” the problem.\n\nThe focus on servicing customers also trains people behave as customers, demanding more for less. Relationships become transactional and superficial.\n\nPeople assume that there is a rule to control everything. So they don’t try or ***even imagine*** that they can do something to improve their place. One of the hardest things to do in our work with communities is to get them to understand that they do have the ability to act and create positive change. Sometimes, it requires gimmicks such as a Get Out of Jail Free card.\n\n### So What? Why Does This Matter?\n\nOne of the main criticisms of the machine approach is that it delivers a consistent, **standardised mediocrity**. It does not handle change or innovation easily. It also contributes to environmental and social problems rather than helping addressing them.\n\n**As control and autonomy have been stripped away by layers of regulation and centralised control, businesses and the people have ‘outsourced’ their responsibilities to “someone else”. The expectation is that governments fix the increasingly evident chronic environmental, social, governance and economic issues.**\n\nPeople around the world are increasingly disillusioned. In Australia, only 35% of people trust governments according to the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer Global Report. A Lowy Institute 2018 survey found only 49% of 18-29 year olds and 45% of 30-44 year olds believe that democracy is preferable to “any other kind of government”.\n\nFor anyone who believes in democracy, these findings should be profoundly disturbing. The legitimacy of the democratic system itself is being questioned.\n\n> “The two dominant frameworks for citizenship in political theory,” he explains, “are the liberal framework, where citizens are voters and consumers of goods, and the communitarian framework, where citizens are volunteers and members of communities. In other words, for most people, citizenship is doing good deeds, or it’s voting and getting things. \n>\n> **We need to develop the idea of civic agency**, **where citizens are co-creators of democracy and the democratic way of life**.”\n>\n> It is bewildering, when you take a step back, to realize how far we’ve gotten away from that last statement. We have completely divorced governance from citizenship, and built thick silo walls around government by creating an opaque, discipline-driven approach to problem-solving.\n>\n> Busting those silo walls is imperative to creating more equitable communities. Rather than trying, haplessly, to solve transportation, housing, or health problems separately, as if they exist within a vacuum, government should be focused on building stronger place.\n>\n> “**Democracy is not a government, it’s a society**,” argues Boyte. “We have to develop an idea that democracy is the work of the people. It’s citizen-centered democracy, not state- or government-centered democracy. That doesn’t mean government doesn’t play an important role, but if you think about government as the center of the universe, we need something like a Copernican revolution.”\n>\n> https://www.pps.org/article/stronger-citizens-stronger-cities-changing-governance-through-a-focus-on-place\n\n### Local Government Leading the Discussion\n\nThe local government sector is taking a lead in reforming the system. The **[Future of Local Government Declaration](https://www.mav.asn.au/what-we-do/sector-development/future-of-local-government)** states that:\n\n> Across the world people are concerned about the apparent inability of governments, business and public institutions to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of the 21st Century. Our present ways of thinking and governing are neither coping with the pace of change nor meeting citizens’ expectations. There is an urgent need for a fresh approach and responsive leadership.\n>\n> In some ways Australia remains the ‘lucky country’ but here too we are struggling with economic upheaval, rising inequality, loss of social cohesion, increased rates of mental illness and serious environmental threats, notably climate change. Many Australians are losing faith in our basic democratic institutions and withdrawing from active participation in civic and cultural life. Our reputation as an inclusive, tolerant and compassionate society is under threat.\n>\n> It’s time to explore a new model of governance, one based on a re-energised civil society that draws on the strength and resourcefulness of people working together in diverse local and regional communities – a localist response.”\n>\n> https://www.mav.asn.au/what-we-do/sector-development/future-of-local-government\n\nIt is inspiring to see the work of local governments including the Town of Victoria Park and City of Vincent in Western Australia leading the place-led approach.\n\nIf the machine or service delivery model isn’t working, what is the alternative? 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It’s all about managing the issues and really thinking about what you want for your place.\n","text":"**There are no magic solutions. It’s all about managing the issues and really thinking about what you want for your place.**"},"content":{"text":"<ImageAsset id=\"69b1dd545e7c6517d421338c\" />\n\nParking is treated differently to almost any other issue. We never demand a pizza joint provide free pizzas. Or a new restaurant be built because the first one is full. Or the Council provide free public transport. But we demand more free parking as it seems like the answer.\n\nPlenty of places have found that they can be more successful and have less car parking. Car parking is very expensive to provide and manage, which means that there is less money to do other things. Each place is different, but here are some ideas and key messages which might help you.\n\n- Car parking issues can’t be “solved”, but they can be better managed. There are no quick fixes. It is more effective, easier and cheaper to manage parking issues in better ways.\n\n#### Key Messages for Businesses\n\n- Do you really want more parking? If so, that is your responsibility in the first instance.\n\n- Or do you really want more money in your till?\n\n- That is a much more productive conversation to have as there may be many other options: local events, increasing pedestrian footfall, place marketing, a Shop Local campaign, creating better places for people, street trading & promotions.\n\n- The National Heart Foundation has prepared a report that explores the benefits of creating walking and cycling friendly environments. [The Good For Busine$$ report](https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/images/uploads/publications/Good-for-business.pdf) shows the increased business and vitality provided by focussing on pedestrians and cyclists.\n\n#### You Need to Prioritise\n\nDoes your business want to prioritise parking for your customers, or for your staff? You can’t prioritise both, so you need to decide what’s best for your business. Create an action plan to help your customers and staff get to and from your business, including which users you will prioritise.\n\n#### Key Messages for Residents\n\n- What kind of place do we want to create – a place for cars or a place for people?\n- Car parking is very expensive to provide, particularly off-street car parking, as land prices are high in most town centres.\n- Car parking is not “free” as someone has to set aside land for, construct and maintain car parking areas. We all pay for “free “car parking through consumer prices, taxes or government rates. We pay a high price for “free” parking.\n- This means that people who do not drive effectively subsidise people who do drive and park for free.\n- We don’t expect a free meal when we go to a restaurant. Why do we expect free parking?\n- Popular places are usually perceived to have a lack of car parking. Parking issues can actually be a sign of success.\n- Increasing car parking supply will lead to more traffic in the local area."},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"There are no magic solutions. It’s all about managing the issues and really thinking about what you want for your place.\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1773264279/doing-collective/banner/managing-car-parking-banner_image__managing_car_parking_banner_xdwgqm.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1773264279/doing-collective/banner/managing-car-parking-banner_image__managing_car_parking_banner_xdwgqm.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1773264279/doing-collective/banner/managing-car-parking-banner_image__managing_car_parking_banner_xdwgqm.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1773264279/doing-collective/banner/managing-car-parking-banner_image__managing_car_parking_banner_xdwgqm.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1773264279/doing-collective/banner/managing-car-parking-banner_image__managing_car_parking_banner_xdwgqm.webp"}}}},"type":{"id":"69f82cf2dd6cda552a6bed6b","name":"How-to guide","slug":"how-to-guide","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2019-07-23T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1deae5e7c6517d421343e","name":"100 Actions by Town Teams","path":"/posts/100-actions-by-town-teams","slug":"100-actions-by-town-teams","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"","text":""},"content":{"text":"Vic Park Collective’s Walk, Ride, Stride day\n\nWe thought we would do a very quick and unscientific survey and start documenting some of the town teams are doing or have done. It is quite a list! There are probably hundreds more actions that are not captured below, so apologies for any important actions we have missed. Here is a list of 100 town team actions.\n\n#### Baysie Rollers\n\n- **Baysie Loves Bikes** – March 25th 2019 – a treasure hunt and exploration of the new family friendly bike boulevard.\n- **Business After Hours** – 21st November 2018 – a chance to connect with other local business owners and community members, artisanal cheese platters by The Little Cheese Shop, a range of great drinks and refreshments and opportunities to share your business plans\n- **Christmas Sunday Session** – 9 December 2018 – listen to an eclectic mix of local live bands play beautiful music and a DJ live on the decks.\n- **Summer Session** – 10 February 2019 – listen to an eclectic mix of local live bands play beautiful music and a DJ live on the decks.\n- **Summer Session** – 10 March 2019 – soak up some weekend vibes with The Jaycos and Weapons of Mass Satisfaction on the newly refurbished Deck at the BBRC\n- **Baysie Arts and Street Fest** – 31 March 2019 – held on King William Street between Whatley Cres and Hill Streets in Bayswater, The Baysie Arts and Street Fest is a locally driven street festival celebrating art, music, history, and community.\n\n#### Beaufort Street Network\n\n- **Brighter Beaufort Action Plan** 2018 and 2019 – The Brighter Beaufort Action Plan signals a refreshed vision for BSN, including a new vision statement, key areas of focus and a series of actions designed to leverage Beaufort Street’s unique character and potential.\n- **Beaufort Street Christmas Festival** 16th December-22nd December 2018 – we are partnering with the wonderful St Alban’s Anglican Church in Highgate to bring a week’s worth of fun & festive Christmas celebrations.\n- **Art on Beaufort Street 2019 Competition** – Local Beaufort Street businesses, near to where Water Corporation’s Pipes for Perth program is in full swing, conceived the idea to trans-form the vibrant strip into a colourful, creative activation.\n- **Name the Lanes** – the community helped to name 9 local laneways in the area. It is hard to create a place that has no name!\n- **Beaufort Street Rally 8th June 2019**– This is it! It’s time to rally the troops to show Beaufort Street some love. Change your plans, this Saturday it’s all about Beaufort with your friends. Your mission is to find three venues that you haven’t been to in ages, or at all, to rediscover what’s on offer all year round. There will be music, food, shopping and a business family that needs your support.\n\n#### The Bend in the Road (Doubleview)\n\n- **February Outdoor Movie** – 23 February 2019\n- **March Outdoor Movie Night** – 23 March 2019\n- **Sundowners @ The Bend May 30 and 20 June 2019** – spend some quality social time with your neighbours as Paul, Kara and the crew serve up their famous fare – free to you, thanks to the generous support of City of Stirling.\n- **June Indoor Movies 15th June 2019**\n\n#### Claisebrook Collective\n\n- **1st Birthday community barbeque** – 2 November 2018 – community BBQ to celebrate the Collective’s first birthday\n\n#### Creative Maylands\n\n- **Maylands Neighbourhood Soup** – 7 November 2018 – Maylands Neighbourhood SOUP is a micro-granting dinner celebrating creative projects that benefit our local community – including art, green space, social justice, education, technology and other ideas.\n- **Maylands Neighbourhood Soup** – 10 April 2019\n- **Maylands Neighbourhood Soup** – 7 August 2019\n- **Flopfest** – 2 March 2019 – Flopfest is a DIY community film festival, where all the films are made by Perth’s average joes, joettes and joeys, regardless of previous experience\n\n#### Dalyellup Collective\n\n- **Christmas in July** – 20 July 2019 – It will be an adults only night out full of fun, good food & drinks, good music & times and an opportunity for all proceeds (including ticket sales, drinks, raffles & silent auctions) to go towards putting on our big end of year event, the 2019 Dalyellup Community Christmas Festival.\n\n#### Dunsborough Progress Association\n\n- **Dunsborough 140th Celebration Community Picnic** – 28 April 2019 – Bring a picnic and invite your people to gather at the Dunsborough Lions Park. Weather pending, there will be a photographic display courtesy of the Dunsborough Historical Society.\n- **Dunsborough’s Art Fest**: **Small Sculptures Prize** – 4 March 2019- Small Sculpture Prize is a new addition of the Duns Arts Fest Sculpture by the Bay exhibited at Christian Fletcher Gallery. The SBB organisers are really excited about the wide range of beautiful and petite, strong artwork that you will be able to afford.\n- **Dunsborough Art Festival and Sculpture By The Bay** – 1-4 March 2019 – Free Saturday and Sunday evening family concerts, family-orientated activities, local craft and art markets, Dunsborough Youth X Factor competition and Sculpture by the Bay take centre stage on this weekend.\n- **Hannay Lane Street Party** – 9 November 2018 – The Hannay Lane Street Party was started as a response by the Hannay Lane Enhancement Group to engage the local community with the otherwise largely unutilised (but with huge potential!) Hannay Lane in the Dunsborough CBD.\n- **Dunsborough Songfest** – Dunsborough SongFest held in November caters for and promotes community singing. It attracts over 200 participants from community choirs, a cappella groups and the general public to participate in a weekend of voice work-shops and concerts.\n\n#### Inglewood on Beaufort\n\n- **Inglewood Monday Night Markets** – We are picky about who we invite to be part of our little market gang. Only the best quality food, drink, services, gifts and homewares are available via our amazing local businesses and the mobile vendors who come from all over the Metro area to be part of the best market in Perth!\n- **Atomic. The new Rock Musical Preview** – 25 February 2019 – Inglewood Monday Night Markets are proud to partner with local Blak Yak Theatre to showcase an exclusive preview of their upcoming show – “ATOMIC The New Rock Musical”!\n- **Fr’inglewood** – February 2019 – Fringe World hits Inglewood\n- **St Patricks Mount Lawley Christmas Festival** annually – December 2018- The free festivities will stretch along Beaufort Street from 3pm with Santa, fun activities for kids, artisan stalls, food vans, wine bar and plenty of live entertainment.\n- **Inglewood UpMarkets** – 5 May and 26 May 2019 – This event is run and organised by a few local Inglewood women, who have way too much beautiful preloved clothes and acces-sories! We hope this event provides an easier avenue to sell (and buy!) items without the trouble of 4am swapmeet starts or time wasting Gumtree or Fb Marketplace\n- **Place Activation Strategy** in 2017 – Mission is to build on our strengths, passions and what makes Inglewood special, empower the local community and visitors and engage and involve businesses, stakeholders and governments\n- **Festival in the ‘Wood 21st May 2017** – From local artisans stalls and tasty food through to live music to match your mood, save the date in your diary and bring your family, friends and furry ones down for the fun and frivolities.\n\n#### Historic Heart of Perth\n\n- **Community Ideas and Actions Workshop** – 28 May 2019\n- **Heritage Perth Weekend guided walks**:\n  • Architecture Walk hosted by heritage expert Richard Offen Saturday 21 October 2018\n  • Architecture Walk hosted by Heritage Architect Philip Griffiths Sunday 22 October 2018\n  • Art Walk hosted by art curator Felicity Johnston on Sunday 22 October 2018\n- **Historic Heart App** – September 2018\n- **Small Museums Walk** – July 2018 – The Historic Heart is home to one of Perth’s greatest collections of heritage listed buildings, forming important streetscapes of late 19th and 20th century architecture. This is evident if you walk through the area. But what you wouldn’t know just walking through Perth’s east end is that some of these buildings house intriguing small museums.\n- **New Planter Boxes** – 2018 – a series of 32 planter boxes spread throughout the precinct, featuring native plants to add greenery, designs by local artists and cared for by long-term unemployed people through Green World Revolution\n- **Architecture Walk** – The Historic Heart is home to one of Perth’s greatest collections of heritage buildings, together forming important streetscapes of late nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture.\n\n#### Leederville Connect\n\n- **Squaresville** – 31 May 2019 – a launch party for the new Leederville town square, which was championed by Leederville Connect\n- **Annual Leederville Long Table dinner** – 13 February 2019 – Join Leederville Connect in their annual 10-COURSE FEAST featuring Leederville’s best eateries, local beer and wine.\n- **LeedyPalooza** – 8-17 February 2019 – A street party where in one week you can salsa dance, listen to Hip-Hop DJ’s, dress poorly and look adoringly into your lover’s eyes (if you don’t already do that every day).\n- **Jane’s Walk** – 2 November 2018- Come along on a walk to hear from an ex-pert on all things local Leederville, enjoy the start of summer with people from your com-munity, tell us what makes your town great, and you’ll also hear stories about the history of Leederville and plans for the future.\n- **Arty Farty Children’s Christmas Party** – 25 November 2-18 – While the Light Up Leederville Carnival takes a rest this year, we welcome back the Arty Farty Children’s Christmas Party to Leederville! An event for children and families, with free activities and lots of local entertainment, including the turning on of the Leederville Lights\n- **Jane’s Walk** – 16 December 2018- Come along on a walk to hear from an expert on all things local Leederville, enjoy the start of summer with people from your community, tell us what makes your town great, and you’ll also hear stories about the history of Leederville and plans for the future.\n- **Leederville Light up Carnival** – 3 Dec 2017 – once again took over the Leederville Town Centre. This giant street festival showcased Leederville’s unique lifestyle in a community celebration with over 60,000 visitors\n\n#### Main Street Co-op\n\n- **Bike Week Breakfast** **on Main Street** – 23 March 2019\n- **Christmas on Main Street** – 16 December 2018\n- **Pop Up Bar on Main Street** – 23 October 2018 – In partnership with Posto Matto, the Co-op will be transforming an underutilised piece of urban space into a pop-up bar for the night.\n- **Winter Cinema Date Night – 12 July 2019** – Come and join us for a free movie night on Main Street of Notting Hill\n- **Winter Cinema Kids Session – 13 July 2019** – Come and join us for a free movie night on Main Street of Finding Nemo\n- **Winter Cinema Family Night** – 13 July 2019 – Come and join us for a free movie night on Main Street of Armageddon\n\n#### Midland Junction Collective\n\n- **Midland Junction Collective Meet & Greet** – 31 January- Bring your good vibes and creative ideas along to this networking event. Meet with others, get your ideas out and brainstorm as we put together the nuts and bolts of the new Midland Junction Collective.\n\n#### The Morley Momentum\n\n- **Progress Street Party** – 7 April 2019 – a celebration of Morley’s multi-cultural community\n- **TMM Bunnings sausage sizzle** – 16 February 2019 – All funds raised will be going straight back into the Morley community and the many upcoming projects we have installed for Morley\n- **The Morley Mixer** – 28 November 2018 – Morley business owners & managers were invited to join us for the popular Morley Mixer! Bring your business card for your chance to win one of the great prizes on offer.\n\n#### Mount Hawthorn Hub\n\n- **Mount Hawthorn Streets and Lanes Festival** – 5 May 2019 – This year’s theme is ‘Secrets of the Side Streets’. We want to uncover all the hidden gems, history, little known facts, and intrigue that make up this wonderful suburb.\n- **Creating Wins and Managing Challenges Workshop** – 13 June 2019 – Join your hosts Mt Haw-thorn Hub and Town Team Movement for a practical workshop for Town Team Committee Members to work together and brainstorm solutions!\n- **Talk and Tea** – 27 March 2019 – ‘Talk and Tea’ will be a free event with morning tea, guest speakers and/or entertainers which will be held four times a year in Mt Hawthorn. It will be a fantastic opportunity to meet new people that live in your local community and to catch up with old friends.\n- **Little Day Out** – 15th December 2018 – In its second year, the community event once again showcases an all local line-up of musicians. Bring your own picnic or enjoy dinner from one of the food trucks in a relaxed and family friendly environment. It’s a little version of The Big Day Out, that’s family friendly!\n- **Pop-up Skate Event** – 18 November 2018 – Pop Up Skate Park was an afternoon of free skateboarding clinics, shooting hoops and human foosball\n\n#### My Dickson (Canberra)\n\n- **First Friday Community Celebration Market** – 5 July 2019 – We’re hosting market stalls, government departments, associations and community groups of every kind to create a fun environment where locals can buy a nick-nack or have an exchange of information with government departments and learn the latest from associations and community groups.\n- **Dickson Knits** – 8 June 2019 – Calling all lovers of knitting, crochet, weaving, felt-ing…anything to do with fabulous fibres! Come and join us and thousands around the world for another amazing World Wide Knit in Public Day for 2019.\n- **Dickson Sessions: Pop Up Bar** – 30 November 2018\n\n#### Noranda Vibes\n\n- **Christmas Concert** – 5 November 2018 – Join the community and many community organisations and groups as we prepare for the Christmas season! Join the West Australia Fire Emergency Services Concert Band for a Christmas Concert organised by Noranda Vibes!\n- **Noranda Vibes Long Table Picnic** – 27 October 2018 – The Noranda Vibes Long Table Picnic Lunch is a community gathering for people of all ages and backgrounds.\n- **Noranda Community Fair** – May 11 2019\n\n#### North Perth Local\n\n- **6006 Concert in the Park** – 28 January 2019\n- Halloween on Angove St 31st October- With support from our major sponsor City of Vin-cent, Halloween on Angove St will turn our beloved Angove strip into a captivating picture of pumpkins, black-cats, ghosts and goblins. We invite all local residents to join us for the Halloween themed live music, face painting, photo booth and festivities!\n- **North Perth Heritage Walk** – 19 May 2019 – Come and explore the history of North Perth. This one hour guided walk in the heart of the original North Perth town centre offers a glimpse into the history of the area from early 20th century to the present day.\n- **Car boot sale** – 20 November 2018 – Back the car up, fill it with your unwanted treasure, and come along to the North Perth Local Community Car Boot Sale\n- **North Perth Historical Walk** – 1 September 2018 – Join us on a guided version of the walk cover-ing selected sites on the North Perth Walk. Discover some of North Perth’s historical sites and places of interest on Angove Street from the first half of the 20th century, when the suburb was first established.\n\n#### Northbridge Common\n\n- **Draft Action Plan 2018/2019** – Northbridge Common champions Northbridge as the creative and cultural epicentre of Perth through its diversity in culture, business, arts and entertainment – driven by a sense of community at its heart.\n- **Neighbour Day Picnic in the Park** – 31 March 2019 – Neighbour Day is Australia’s annual celebration of community, encouraging people to connect with those who live in their neighbourhood.\n- **Lunar New Year Lantern Festival** – 17 February 2019 – Pop down to check out our local businesses (there’s always something new!) and enjoy lanterns in the trees, lion dancers, kids stuff and roving entertainment from Newcastle to Monger Streets.\n\n#### Old Perth Road Collective (Bassendean)\n\n- **Street beautification project** – 15 June 2019 – verge plantings and painting a wall to enhance a key part of the Bassendean town centre\n- **OPR Collective Launch and Town Talk** – 8 May 2019 – Come join us for a drink and pizza to celebrate with our members and local businesses to launch Bassendean’s very own, Old Perth Road Collective. This event will also incorporate our brand new event series ‘Town Talks’.\n\n#### Rivervale Community Network\n\n- **Yarn bombing on Kooyong Road**\n- **Neighbour Day Lunch** – 31 March – Bring your picnic and meet some of the beautiful people who live in Rivervale\n- **Jupp Lane Lounge event** – 24 November 2017 – Jupp Lane blocks its way to cars for this annual free event bringing Rivervale together to lounge and meet their neighbours.\n\n#### Rostrata Town Project\n\n- **Spring in the Garden** – 21 October 2018\n- **Rostrata Walking Group** – 6 November 2018\n- **Rostrata Festival** – 15 February 2019 – Celebrating local community and culture. Food and entertainment including dragon dancing, games and activities for children\n\n#### Scarborough Beach Association\n\n- **Scarborough Sunset Applause** – From 1 November 2018 – Locals and visitors gather on Scarborough Beach in a vibrant celebration of our most precious asset – our sunset. The Scarborough Sunset Applause starts as an individual’s expression of gratitude, before erupting into a collective appreciation of the day that was, and the evening that is to come.\n- **Fringe World-Sunset Veranda** – 18 January 2019 – Join us in Scarborough for the sunny side of FRINGE WORLD at the Sunset Veranda, with the pop-up bar to watch the stunning sunset over the west coast. Big Top performance space offers comedy, music, dance, cabaret and kids shows\n- **Scarborough Christmas Carols** – 16 December 2018\n- **The Sandpit – Community Dance events** – Come watch or participate in the family friendly, alcohol free dance event promoting positive physical and mental health benefits for the whole family\n- **Scarborough Sunset Markets** – From 1 November 2018- Every Thursday night from 1 November 2018 – 25 April 2019. Food, music, arts, ocean, salty air, sandy feet and mesmerising sun-sets.\n\n#### Shape Mandurah\n\n- **Community Soup** – June, July, August 2018, June and May 2019- Mandurah community SOUP has a simple goal: To give someone an envelope stuffed with money, so they can go and do that thing they always wanted to do, to make our community a better place!\n- **Mandurah Food Truck Festival** – 28 November 2017 – The locals you know and love will be there with an array of tempting goodies, as well as some fresh faces from surrounding areas. Plus there will be buskers and activities!\n- **Kids Market** – 16 December 2018 — Come down to Make Place for Mandurah’s first kids market, created and run by kids\n\n#### South Perth Activation Network\n\n- **Mends Street Farmers Market** – 1 October-26 August 2017- Mends Street will be bustling every Sunday with art activities, music and amazing fresh food including fruit and veg-es, local meat, baked goods and so much more. A portion of Mends St will be closed to traffic and open for pedestrian activation.\n- **ECU Mends Street Activation Exhibition** 9 November 2017 – Edith Cowan University Design Students have been working all semester on building a refreshed brand and new ideas to activate the Mends Street Area. The exhibition will showcase the student’s ideas and pro-vide inspiration for future improvements in the area.\n- **South Perth Community Gathering** – 30 November 2018 – Come along to our community meeting to let us know what you want to see in South Perth. It might be an event, something you’ve seen in another neighbourhood, or just what you already love about living here. Join us for a relaxed evening to share ideas, yummy food, and our passion for South Perth. Bring a plate, your ideas… and maybe your neighbour!\n- **Free Pop-up Cinema in the Park** – 24 March 2019 – Join in the fun as South Perth community members present Pop-Up movies in the park. Free community event for all ages. BYO beanbag, low chair or picnic blanket.\n\n#### Subiaction\n\n- **Subi Street Party** – 6 April 2019 – Subiaco’s biggest community event with the theme ‘Around the World’, celebrating four distinct zones from around the globe.\n- **Perth Comedy Festival in Subi** – April and May 2019 – The month-long Perth Comedy Festival brings a line-up of the world’s biggest comedy stars and next-big-things to W.A. It includes the not-to-be-missed Perth Comedy Festival Gala at Regal Theatre featuring a dazzling line-up of the Festival’s funniest international stars, Australian legends and next-big-things in comedy for spectacular night of comedy in Subiaco.\n- **Subilicious** – January and February 2019 – Subilicious will become a Fringe World hub, linking the majestic Regal Theatre with the delightful hidden treasure, Subiaco Arts Centre. A hue of pink will take over the city during the event. The hub will provide a sensory experience throughout Subiaco with street performers leading the way.\n- **Seddon Street Block Party** – 19 October 2018 – Come down to the Seddon Street Community Block Party! Heaps of kids activities, live music, pop-up bar, long table dining, local food and an interactive public engagement workshop.\n\n#### Vic Park Collective\n\n- **Vic Park Neighbourhood Soup** – Victoria Park residents, enthusiasts and supporters pay $10 for a bowl of soup and a vote. Over dinner, they listen to four-minute pitches from up to four people working on projects that help the local community. Each diner can cast a vote. The winning project goes home with all the cash raised at the door and have the opportunity to return to future Vic Park Soup dinners to update participants about their projects.\n- **Collective Conversations** – are free pop-up talks at different Vic Park locations where people can hear about a raft of topics and from experts in various fields.\n\n#### West Perth Local\n\n- **West Perth Wednesday** – West Perth Local invites you to our new regular community get-together West Perth (Local) Wednesday!\n- **Mural** – West Perth Local created a new mural on the side of the building with help of local artist Paul Deej\n- **Jane’s Walk** – 2 June 2019 – Jane’s Walks are free, locally organised walking tours, in which people get together to explore, talk about and celebrate their neighbourhoods. Where more traditional tours are a bit like walking lectures, a Jane’s Walk is more of a walking conversation\n- **Welcome to Summer Picnic** – 2 December 2018 – Join the team of West Perth Local along with WA Loves Nature, a roving magician, prize raffles and the greater West Perth community for a picnic in the park!"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Vic Park Collective’s Walk, Ride, Stride day\nWe thought we would do a very quick and unscientific survey and start documenting some of the town teams are doing or have done. It is quite a list! There are probably hundreds more actions that are not captured below, so apologies for any important actions we have missed. Here is a list of 100 town team actions.\nBaysie Rollers\n\nBaysie Loves Bikes – March 25th 2019 – a treasure hunt and exploration of the new family friendly bike boulevard.\nBusiness After Hours – 21st November 2018 – a chance to connect with other local business owners and community members, artisanal cheese platters by The Little Cheese Shop, a range of great drinks and refreshments and opportunities to share your business plans\nChristmas Sunday Session – 9 December 2018 – listen to an eclectic mix of local live bands play beautiful music and a DJ live on the decks.\nSummer Session – 10 February 2019 – listen to an eclectic mix of local live bands play beautiful music and a DJ live on the decks.\nSummer Session – 10 March 2019 – soak up some weekend vibes with The Jaycos and Weapons of Mass Satisfaction on the newly refurbished Deck at the BBRC\nBaysie Arts and Street Fest – 31 March 2019 – held on King William Street between Whatley Cres and Hill Streets in Bayswater, The Baysie Arts and Street Fest is a locally driven street festival celebrating art, music, history, and community.\n\nBeaufort Street Network\n\nBrighter Beaufort Action Plan 2018 and 2019 – The Brighter Beaufort Action Plan signals a refreshed vision for BSN, including a new vision statement, key areas of focus and a series of actions designed to leverage Beaufort Street’s unique character and potential.\nBeaufort Street Christmas Festival 16th December-22nd December 2018 – we are partnering with the wonderful St Alban’s Anglican Church in Highgate to bring a week’s worth of fun &amp; festive Christmas celebrations.\nArt on Beaufort Street 2019 Competition – Local Beaufort Street businesses, near to where Water Corporation’s Pipes for Perth program is in full swing, conceived the idea to trans-form the vibrant strip into a colourful, creative activation.\nName the Lanes – the community helped to name 9 local laneways in the area. It is hard to create a place that has no name!\nBeaufort Street Rally 8th June 2019– This is it! It’s time to rally the troops to show Beaufort Street some love. Change your plans, this Saturday it’s all about Beaufort with your friends. Your mission is to find three venues that you haven’t been to in ages, or at all, to rediscover what’s on offer all year round. There will be music, food, shopping and a business family that needs your support.\n\nThe Bend in the Road (Doubleview)\n\nFebruary Outdoor Movie – 23 February 2019\nMarch Outdoor Movie Night – 23 March 2019\nSundowners @ The Bend May 30 and 20 June 2019 – spend some quality social time with your neighbours as Paul, Kara and the crew serve up their famous fare – free to you, thanks to the generous support of City of Stirling.\nJune Indoor Movies 15th June 2019\n\nClaisebrook Collective\n\n1st Birthday community barbeque – 2 November 2018 – community BBQ to celebrate the Collective’s first birthday\n\nCreative Maylands\n\nMaylands Neighbourhood Soup – 7 November 2018 – Maylands Neighbourhood SOUP is a micro-granting dinner celebrating creative projects that benefit our local community – including art, green space, social justice, education, technology and other ideas.\nMaylands Neighbourhood Soup – 10 April 2019\nMaylands Neighbourhood Soup – 7 August 2019\nFlopfest – 2 March 2019 – Flopfest is a DIY community film festival, where all the films are made by Perth’s average joes, joettes and joeys, regardless of previous experience\n\nDalyellup Collective\n\nChristmas in July – 20 July 2019 – It will be an adults only night out full of fun, good food &amp; drinks, good music &amp; times and an opportunity for all proceeds (including ticket sales, drinks, raffles &amp; silent auctions) to go towards putting on our big end of year event, the 2019 Dalyellup Community Christmas Festival.\n\nDunsborough Progress Association\n\nDunsborough 140th Celebration Community Picnic – 28 April 2019 – Bring a picnic and invite your people to gather at the Dunsborough Lions Park. Weather pending, there will be a photographic display courtesy of the Dunsborough Historical Society.\nDunsborough’s Art Fest: Small Sculptures Prize – 4 March 2019- Small Sculpture Prize is a new addition of the Duns Arts Fest Sculpture by the Bay exhibited at Christian Fletcher Gallery. The SBB organisers are really excited about the wide range of beautiful and petite, strong artwork that you will be able to afford.\nDunsborough Art Festival and Sculpture By The Bay – 1-4 March 2019 – Free Saturday and Sunday evening family concerts, family-orientated activities, local craft and art markets, Dunsborough Youth X Factor competition and Sculpture by the Bay take centre stage on this weekend.\nHannay Lane Street Party – 9 November 2018 – The Hannay Lane Street Party was started as a response by the Hannay Lane Enhancement Group to engage the local community with the otherwise largely unutilised (but with huge potential!) Hannay Lane in the Dunsborough CBD.\nDunsborough Songfest – Dunsborough SongFest held in November caters for and promotes community singing. It attracts over 200 participants from community choirs, a cappella groups and the general public to participate in a weekend of voice work-shops and concerts.\n\nInglewood on Beaufort\n\nInglewood Monday Night Markets – We are picky about who we invite to be part of our little market gang. Only the best quality food, drink, services, gifts and homewares are available via our amazing local businesses and the mobile vendors who come from all over the Metro area to be part of the best market in Perth!\nAtomic. The new Rock Musical Preview – 25 February 2019 – Inglewood Monday Night Markets are proud to partner with local Blak Yak Theatre to showcase an exclusive preview of their upcoming show – “ATOMIC The New Rock Musical”!\nFr’inglewood – February 2019 – Fringe World hits Inglewood\nSt Patricks Mount Lawley Christmas Festival annually – December 2018- The free festivities will stretch along Beaufort Street from 3pm with Santa, fun activities for kids, artisan stalls, food vans, wine bar and plenty of live entertainment.\nInglewood UpMarkets – 5 May and 26 May 2019 – This event is run and organised by a few local Inglewood women, who have way too much beautiful preloved clothes and acces-sories! We hope this event provides an easier avenue to sell (and buy!) items without the trouble of 4am swapmeet starts or time wasting Gumtree or Fb Marketplace\nPlace Activation Strategy in 2017 – Mission is to build on our strengths, passions and what makes Inglewood special, empower the local community and visitors and engage and involve businesses, stakeholders and governments\nFestival in the ‘Wood 21st May 2017 – From local artisans stalls and tasty food through to live music to match your mood, save the date in your diary and bring your family, friends and furry ones down for the fun and frivolities.\n\nHistoric Heart of Perth\n\nCommunity Ideas and Actions Workshop – 28 May 2019\nHeritage Perth Weekend guided walks:\n• Architecture Walk hosted by heritage expert Richard Offen Saturday 21 October 2018\n• Architecture Walk hosted by Heritage Architect Philip Griffiths Sunday 22 October 2018\n• Art Walk hosted by art curator Felicity Johnston on Sunday 22 October 2018\nHistoric Heart App – September 2018\nSmall Museums Walk – July 2018 – The Historic Heart is home to one of Perth’s greatest collections of heritage listed buildings, forming important streetscapes of late 19th and 20th century architecture. This is evident if you walk through the area. But what you wouldn’t know just walking through Perth’s east end is that some of these buildings house intriguing small museums.\nNew Planter Boxes – 2018 – a series of 32 planter boxes spread throughout the precinct, featuring native plants to add greenery, designs by local artists and cared for by long-term unemployed people through Green World Revolution\nArchitecture Walk – The Historic Heart is home to one of Perth’s greatest collections of heritage buildings, together forming important streetscapes of late nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture.\n\nLeederville Connect\n\nSquaresville – 31 May 2019 – a launch party for the new Leederville town square, which was championed by Leederville Connect\nAnnual Leederville Long Table dinner – 13 February 2019 – Join Leederville Connect in their annual 10-COURSE FEAST featuring Leederville’s best eateries, local beer and wine.\nLeedyPalooza – 8-17 February 2019 – A street party where in one week you can salsa dance, listen to Hip-Hop DJ’s, dress poorly and look adoringly into your lover’s eyes (if you don’t already do that every day).\nJane’s Walk – 2 November 2018- Come along on a walk to hear from an ex-pert on all things local Leederville, enjoy the start of summer with people from your com-munity, tell us what makes your town great, and you’ll also hear stories about the history of Leederville and plans for the future.\nArty Farty Children’s Christmas Party – 25 November 2-18 – While the Light Up Leederville Carnival takes a rest this year, we welcome back the Arty Farty Children’s Christmas Party to Leederville! An event for children and families, with free activities and lots of local entertainment, including the turning on of the Leederville Lights\nJane’s Walk – 16 December 2018- Come along on a walk to hear from an expert on all things local Leederville, enjoy the start of summer with people from your community, tell us what makes your town great, and you’ll also hear stories about the history of Leederville and plans for the future.\nLeederville Light up Carnival – 3 Dec 2017 – once again took over the Leederville Town Centre. This giant street festival showcased Leederville’s unique lifestyle in a community celebration with over 60,000 visitors\n\nMain Street Co-op\n\nBike Week Breakfast on Main Street – 23 March 2019\nChristmas on Main Street – 16 December 2018\nPop Up Bar on Main Street – 23 October 2018 – In partnership with Posto Matto, the Co-op will be transforming an underutilised piece of urban space into a pop-up bar for the night.\nWinter Cinema Date Night – 12 July 2019 – Come and join us for a free movie night on Main Street of Notting Hill\nWinter Cinema Kids Session – 13 July 2019 – Come and join us for a free movie night on Main Street of Finding Nemo\nWinter Cinema Family Night – 13 July 2019 – Come and join us for a free movie night on Main Street of Armageddon\n\nMidland Junction Collective\n\nMidland Junction Collective Meet &amp; Greet – 31 January- Bring your good vibes and creative ideas along to this networking event. Meet with others, get your ideas out and brainstorm as we put together the nuts and bolts of the new Midland Junction Collective.\n\nThe Morley Momentum\n\nProgress Street Party – 7 April 2019 – a celebration of Morley’s multi-cultural community\nTMM Bunnings sausage sizzle – 16 February 2019 – All funds raised will be going straight back into the Morley community and the many upcoming projects we have installed for Morley\nThe Morley Mixer – 28 November 2018 – Morley business owners &amp; managers were invited to join us for the popular Morley Mixer! Bring your business card for your chance to win one of the great prizes on offer.\n\nMount Hawthorn Hub\n\nMount Hawthorn Streets and Lanes Festival – 5 May 2019 – This year’s theme is ‘Secrets of the Side Streets’. We want to uncover all the hidden gems, history, little known facts, and intrigue that make up this wonderful suburb.\nCreating Wins and Managing Challenges Workshop – 13 June 2019 – Join your hosts Mt Haw-thorn Hub and Town Team Movement for a practical workshop for Town Team Committee Members to work together and brainstorm solutions!\nTalk and Tea – 27 March 2019 – ‘Talk and Tea’ will be a free event with morning tea, guest speakers and/or entertainers which will be held four times a year in Mt Hawthorn. It will be a fantastic opportunity to meet new people that live in your local community and to catch up with old friends.\nLittle Day Out – 15th December 2018 – In its second year, the community event once again showcases an all local line-up of musicians. Bring your own picnic or enjoy dinner from one of the food trucks in a relaxed and family friendly environment. It’s a little version of The Big Day Out, that’s family friendly!\nPop-up Skate Event – 18 November 2018 – Pop Up Skate Park was an afternoon of free skateboarding clinics, shooting hoops and human foosball\n\nMy Dickson (Canberra)\n\nFirst Friday Community Celebration Market – 5 July 2019 – We’re hosting market stalls, government departments, associations and community groups of every kind to create a fun environment where locals can buy a nick-nack or have an exchange of information with government departments and learn the latest from associations and community groups.\nDickson Knits – 8 June 2019 – Calling all lovers of knitting, crochet, weaving, felt-ing…anything to do with fabulous fibres! Come and join us and thousands around the world for another amazing World Wide Knit in Public Day for 2019.\nDickson Sessions: Pop Up Bar – 30 November 2018\n\nNoranda Vibes\n\nChristmas Concert – 5 November 2018 – Join the community and many community organisations and groups as we prepare for the Christmas season! Join the West Australia Fire Emergency Services Concert Band for a Christmas Concert organised by Noranda Vibes!\nNoranda Vibes Long Table Picnic – 27 October 2018 – The Noranda Vibes Long Table Picnic Lunch is a community gathering for people of all ages and backgrounds.\nNoranda Community Fair – May 11 2019\n\nNorth Perth Local\n\n6006 Concert in the Park – 28 January 2019\nHalloween on Angove St 31st October- With support from our major sponsor City of Vin-cent, Halloween on Angove St will turn our beloved Angove strip into a captivating picture of pumpkins, black-cats, ghosts and goblins. We invite all local residents to join us for the Halloween themed live music, face painting, photo booth and festivities!\nNorth Perth Heritage Walk – 19 May 2019 – Come and explore the history of North Perth. This one hour guided walk in the heart of the original North Perth town centre offers a glimpse into the history of the area from early 20th century to the present day.\nCar boot sale – 20 November 2018 – Back the car up, fill it with your unwanted treasure, and come along to the North Perth Local Community Car Boot Sale\nNorth Perth Historical Walk – 1 September 2018 – Join us on a guided version of the walk cover-ing selected sites on the North Perth Walk. Discover some of North Perth’s historical sites and places of interest on Angove Street from the first half of the 20th century, when the suburb was first established.\n\nNorthbridge Common\n\nDraft Action Plan 2018/2019 – Northbridge Common champions Northbridge as the creative and cultural epicentre of Perth through its diversity in culture, business, arts and entertainment – driven by a sense of community at its heart.\nNeighbour Day Picnic in the Park – 31 March 2019 – Neighbour Day is Australia’s annual celebration of community, encouraging people to connect with those who live in their neighbourhood.\nLunar New Year Lantern Festival – 17 February 2019 – Pop down to check out our local businesses (there’s always something new!) and enjoy lanterns in the trees, lion dancers, kids stuff and roving entertainment from Newcastle to Monger Streets.\n\nOld Perth Road Collective (Bassendean)\n\nStreet beautification project – 15 June 2019 – verge plantings and painting a wall to enhance a key part of the Bassendean town centre\nOPR Collective Launch and Town Talk – 8 May 2019 – Come join us for a drink and pizza to celebrate with our members and local businesses to launch Bassendean’s very own, Old Perth Road Collective. This event will also incorporate our brand new event series ‘Town Talks’.\n\nRivervale Community Network\n\nYarn bombing on Kooyong Road\nNeighbour Day Lunch – 31 March – Bring your picnic and meet some of the beautiful people who live in Rivervale\nJupp Lane Lounge event – 24 November 2017 – Jupp Lane blocks its way to cars for this annual free event bringing Rivervale together to lounge and meet their neighbours.\n\nRostrata Town Project\n\nSpring in the Garden – 21 October 2018\nRostrata Walking Group – 6 November 2018\nRostrata Festival – 15 February 2019 – Celebrating local community and culture. Food and entertainment including dragon dancing, games and activities for children\n\nScarborough Beach Association\n\nScarborough Sunset Applause – From 1 November 2018 – Locals and visitors gather on Scarborough Beach in a vibrant celebration of our most precious asset – our sunset. The Scarborough Sunset Applause starts as an individual’s expression of gratitude, before erupting into a collective appreciation of the day that was, and the evening that is to come.\nFringe World-Sunset Veranda – 18 January 2019 – Join us in Scarborough for the sunny side of FRINGE WORLD at the Sunset Veranda, with the pop-up bar to watch the stunning sunset over the west coast. Big Top performance space offers comedy, music, dance, cabaret and kids shows\nScarborough Christmas Carols – 16 December 2018\nThe Sandpit – Community Dance events – Come watch or participate in the family friendly, alcohol free dance event promoting positive physical and mental health benefits for the whole family\nScarborough Sunset Markets – From 1 November 2018- Every Thursday night from 1 November 2018 – 25 April 2019. Food, music, arts, ocean, salty air, sandy feet and mesmerising sun-sets.\n\nShape Mandurah\n\nCommunity Soup – June, July, August 2018, June and May 2019- Mandurah community SOUP has a simple goal: To give someone an envelope stuffed with money, so they can go and do that thing they always wanted to do, to make our community a better place!\nMandurah Food Truck Festival – 28 November 2017 – The locals you know and love will be there with an array of tempting goodies, as well as some fresh faces from surrounding areas. Plus there will be buskers and activities!\nKids Market – 16 December 2018 — Come down to Make Place for Mandurah’s first kids market, created and run by kids\n\nSouth Perth Activation Network\n\nMends Street Farmers Market – 1 October-26 August 2017- Mends Street will be bustling every Sunday with art activities, music and amazing fresh food including fruit and veg-es, local meat, baked goods and so much more. A portion of Mends St will be closed to traffic and open for pedestrian activation.\nECU Mends Street Activation Exhibition 9 November 2017 – Edith Cowan University Design Students have been working all semester on building a refreshed brand and new ideas to activate the Mends Street Area. The exhibition will showcase the student’s ideas and pro-vide inspiration for future improvements in the area.\nSouth Perth Community Gathering – 30 November 2018 – Come along to our community meeting to let us know what you want to see in South Perth. It might be an event, something you’ve seen in another neighbourhood, or just what you already love about living here. Join us for a relaxed evening to share ideas, yummy food, and our passion for South Perth. Bring a plate, your ideas… and maybe your neighbour!\nFree Pop-up Cinema in the Park – 24 March 2019 – Join in the fun as South Perth community members present Pop-Up movies in the park. Free community event for all ages. BYO beanbag, low chair or picnic blanket.\n\nSubiaction\n\nSubi Street Party – 6 April 2019 – Subiaco’s biggest community event with the theme ‘Around the World’, celebrating four distinct zones from around the globe.\nPerth Comedy Festival in Subi – April and May 2019 – The month-long Perth Comedy Festival brings a line-up of the world’s biggest comedy stars and next-big-things to W.A. It includes the not-to-be-missed Perth Comedy Festival Gala at Regal Theatre featuring a dazzling line-up of the Festival’s funniest international stars, Australian legends and next-big-things in comedy for spectacular night of comedy in Subiaco.\nSubilicious – January and February 2019 – Subilicious will become a Fringe World hub, linking the majestic Regal Theatre with the delightful hidden treasure, Subiaco Arts Centre. A hue of pink will take over the city during the event. The hub will provide a sensory experience throughout Subiaco with street performers leading the way.\nSeddon Street Block Party – 19 October 2018 – Come down to the Seddon Street Community Block Party! Heaps of kids activities, live music, pop-up bar, long table dining, local food and an interactive public engagement workshop.\n\nVic Park Collective\n\nVic Park Neighbourhood Soup – Victoria Park residents, enthusiasts and supporters pay $10 for a bowl of soup and a vote. Over dinner, they listen to four-minute pitches from up to four people working on projects that help the local community. Each diner can cast a vote. The winning project goes home with all the cash raised at the door and have the opportunity to return to future Vic Park Soup dinners to update participants about their projects.\nCollective Conversations – are free pop-up talks at different Vic Park locations where people can hear about a raft of topics and from experts in various fields.\n\nWest Perth Local\n\nWest Perth Wednesday – West Perth Local invites you to our new regular community get-together West Perth (Local) Wednesday!\nMural – West Perth Local created a new mural on the side of the building with help of local artist Paul Deej\nJane’s Walk – 2 June 2019 – Jane’s Walks are free, locally organised walking tours, in which people get together to explore, talk about and celebrate their neighbourhoods. Where more traditional tours are a bit like walking lectures, a Jane’s Walk is more of a walking conversation\nWelcome to Summer Picnic – 2 December 2018 – Join the team of West Perth Local along with WA Loves Nature, a roving magician, prize raffles and the greater West Perth community for a picnic in the park!\n\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1777627063/doing-collective/banner/vic-park-collectives-walk_thumbnail__Vic_Park_Collective_s_Walk_aeau8v.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1777627063/doing-collective/banner/vic-park-collectives-walk_thumbnail__Vic_Park_Collective_s_Walk_aeau8v.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1777627063/doing-collective/banner/vic-park-collectives-walk_thumbnail__Vic_Park_Collective_s_Walk_aeau8v.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1777627063/doing-collective/banner/vic-park-collectives-walk_thumbnail__Vic_Park_Collective_s_Walk_aeau8v.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1777627063/doing-collective/banner/vic-park-collectives-walk_thumbnail__Vic_Park_Collective_s_Walk_aeau8v.webp"}}}},"type":{"id":"69f82d67dd6cda552a6bed84","name":"News","slug":"news","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2019-06-25T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1e0585e7c6517d42135b3","name":"What’s the difference: placemaking, place management and place activation?","path":"/posts/whats-the-difference-placemaking-place-management-and-place-activation","slug":"whats-the-difference-placemaking-place-management-and-place-activation","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"\nIt’s an ongoing and iterative process","text":"<ImageAsset id=\"69b1df325e7c6517d4213446\" />\nIt’s an ongoing and iterative process"},"content":{"text":"## Placemaking\n\n#### An Ethos and a Practical Approach to Improving Places\n\n*As both an overarching idea and a hands-on approach for improving a neighborhood, city, or region, **Placemaking** inspires people to collectively reimagine and reinvent public spaces as the heart of every community.*\n\n*Strengthening the connection between people and the places they share, Placemaking refers to a collaborative process by which we can shape our public realm in order to maximize shared value.*\n\n*More than just promoting better urban design, Placemaking facilitates creative patterns of use, paying particular attention to the physical, cultural, and social identities that define a place and support its ongoing evolution.*\n\nhttps://www.pps.org/article/what-is-placemaking\n\nThe term **placemaking** is used in many different contexts and means different things to different people. Different professions also have different definitions of placemaking.\n\nProject for Public Spaces created the term in the 1970’s, and therefore its original meaning should be the starting point of our understanding.\n\nPlacemaking is both an ethos and a practical approach to improving places. It focusses on collaboration, communication and connections and mutual responsibilities.\n\n**By definition, placemaking can’t be done by individual people or a department of government working in isolation.**\n\nPlacemaking does not just involve experts and professionals. Everyone should have the opportunity to be involved. It promotes changes to culture and thinking as much as physical outcomes. Both are important.\n\nPlacemaking also works on the hardware and the software of a place concurrently.\n\n### Software and Hardware of a Place\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1df9b5e7c6517d421351b\" />\nJust like a computer, a place cannot work unless the hardware, software and programs integrate and get upgraded over time. They aren’t static.\n\n## Place Management\n\n#### The process and implementation of a place-led approach\n\nPlace management can be defined as:\n\n*A coordinated, area-based, multi-stakeholder approach to improve locations, harnessing the skills, experiences and resources of those in the private, public and voluntary sectors.*\n\nhttp://www.placemanagement.org/\n\nPlace management is one the approaches that can help to address the challenges and ensure that the place thrives in the future.\n\nA place management approach starts with appointing a **place manager** or **leader**, empowering that person or team and making them responsibility for coordinating, managing and improving the place.\n\nAs Project for Public Spaces highlighted, the current issue is that no person or department is responsible for creating a great place. It is therefore no surprise that places often struggle. The place manager’s role needs to be a ‘silo-breaker’ and provide place leadership, coordination and facilitation. They need to be empowered and supported in their role in order to be successful.\n\nThe Institute of Place Management in the United Kingdom says that the effective management of town centres and main streets makes a real difference to their vitality and viability and hence their sustainability. Effective management means that centres can better meet the needs of their communities and can remain relevant to them. This can help to combat the many threats traditional town centres now face. Online retail, the expansion of shopping centres and competition from other town centres around Perth present real and present challenges for town centres and small businesses.\n\n## The Place Management Model\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1e0045e7c6517d42135a9\" />\n\nA place manager can:\n\n- Be a champion of the place-led approach\n- Liaise with all internal and external stakeholders\n- Improve internal processes to remove regulatory blocks and barriers and make it easier for internal staff as well as local businesses and residents to be placemakers\n- Be made responsible for the oversight of projects\n- Work with a support town teams\n- Promote place marketing and economic development\n- Build trust and confidence in the local government\n- Get everyone working together and breaking down internal and external silos\n\n## Place Activation\n\n#### The experiences and outcomes of placemaking\n\nPlace activation is the goal and (hopefully the) outcome of the placemaking and place management processes.\n\n[http://www.parklandwa.org.au/news/30/vibrant-activation–an-introduction-to-space-activation-and-placemaking](http://www.parklandwa.org.au/news/30/vibrant-activation--an-introduction-to-space-activation-and-placemaking)\n\nA place must have people in order to be “active” or activated. How to make a place active can be explored through the place making and place management processes.\n\nAs the P says; “Start with the petunias”, planting some cheap, colourful, flowers that brighten a space immediately, and they must be cared for which demonstrates that someone must be looking after the space. Seeing actual things happening on the ground, no matter how small, encourages the cynics to get on board with change; it’s not just another strategic plan that won’t show impacts for years.\n\n[http://www.parklandwa.org.au/news/30/vibrant-activation–an-introduction-to-space-activation-and-placemaking](http://www.parklandwa.org.au/news/30/vibrant-activation--an-introduction-to-space-activation-and-placemaking)\n\nPeople will not have trust and confidence in placemaking until they see results. PPS promotes a lighter, quicker, cheaper approach to place making, focussing on getting quick wins to build momentum. This approach can assist place activation.\n\n**The most cost-effective and powerful way for local governments to be placemakers and activate places is to allow it to happen rather than making it happen themselves.**\n\nThis means local governments and communities need to be clear on their vision and goals. If the event or activity delivers on the placemaking goals, it should be approved as quickly as possible.\n\nIf the event or activity is contrary to the vision and goals, it should be not be permitted.\n\nIf the event or activity needs further consideration, this is where more time may be required to consider the opportunities and risks of the event or activity.\n\nHaving clear policies and guidelines, being well-coordinated and transparent is the best approach. The greatest risk is a silo-based approach to decision-making where each department has its own rules.\n\nThis more detailed understanding of placemaking, place management and place activativation highlights the need for a coordinated, place-led approach to decision-making, resourcing and budgeting.\n\n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"\nIt’s an ongoing and iterative process"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1773264967/doing-collective/banner/whats-the-difference-banner_image__Whats_the_difference_banner_yezayc.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1773264967/doing-collective/banner/whats-the-difference-banner_image__Whats_the_difference_banner_yezayc.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1773264967/doing-collective/banner/whats-the-difference-banner_image__Whats_the_difference_banner_yezayc.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1773264967/doing-collective/banner/whats-the-difference-banner_image__Whats_the_difference_banner_yezayc.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1773264967/doing-collective/banner/whats-the-difference-banner_image__Whats_the_difference_banner_yezayc.webp"}}}},"type":{"id":"6a27d62783a077520643c47f","name":"Placemaking","slug":"placemaking","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2019-07-14T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1e1215e7c6517d42135c8","name":"Community-Owned Enterprises","path":"/posts/community-owned-enterprises","slug":"community-owned-enterprises","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"","text":""},"content":{"text":"They operate in both urban and regional areas and, although are independent, they work in partnership with the public sector, private businesses and other community groups.\n\n(Based on the explanation in Inspiring Change: Creating a Successful Development Trust, written by Development Trusts Association Scotland).\n\nDevelopment foundations are enterprising organisations aiming for long-term financial self-sufficiency by generating surpluses to reinvest in the enterprise and the wider community. To do this you need to be entrepreneurial, take risks and look out for opportunities and business ideas to benefit your community.\n\nThey are about local action for local benefit. They are about communities taking control, shaping their future and making things happen. They encourage everyone to get involved and play their part.\n\nThey can:\n• Build community resilience and independence\n• Be curators and custodians of a place or town centre\n• Develop and manage assets which create revenue to fund community projects\n\nOne or more of the following options could be investigated, depending on circumstances:\n\n1. Land sold by or leased from local or State Governments for peppercorn or reduced cost\n2. Loan at either market or reduced rate\n3. Social impact superannuation investment\n4. Philanthropy\n5. Grants (e.g. Lotterywest)\n6. Community share issue\n7. Cash at bank for a town team\n8. Joint venture\n9. Social or community bonds\n10. Partnerships (e.g. Rotary, Lions etc)\n\nA town team or other community entity, as advisors and guardians, can curate and be stewards of the place because they have some means of delivery through ownership of assets, which can also deliver a long-term, relatively predictable revenue stream\n\nSound challenging. Well, here are some example of communities in Australia that have done it. There are 500 Community Development Trusts in the U.K. and probably thousands in North America. Let’s do it!\n\n[Nyabing in Western Australia bought their local pub.](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-10/beer-taps-are-flowing-again-in-wa-town-of-nyabing/10883516)\n\n[Coorow in Western Australia also bought a pub ](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=607327803116310)[a](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-21/nandaly-community-pitch-in-to-purchase-pub/10640136)[nd so did Nandaly in Victoria](http://rchase-pub/10640136)\n\n[Gnowangerup (WA)- formed a co-operative and setting up a retail hub in town](https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-12-12/cooperatives-key-to-saving-business-in-bush/10595026)\n\n[MEEDAC is an Aboriginal Corporation that runs social enterprises in farming](http://meedac.com/index.php?page=home)\n\n[Corryong in Victoria bought their own bakery](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-12/social-enterprise-paying-off-for-regional-areas/10236884)\n\nAnd there are more example of communities doing it for themselves at https://www.coopdevelopment.org.au/communitybuyouts.html\n\n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"They operate in both urban and regional areas and, although are independent, they work in partnership with the public sector, private businesses and other community groups.\n(Based on the explanation in Inspiring Change: Creating a Successful Development Trust, written by Development Trusts Association Scotland).\nDevelopment foundations are enterprising organisations aiming for long-term financial self-sufficiency by generating surpluses to reinvest in the enterprise and the wider community. To do this you need to be entrepreneurial, take risks and look out for opportunities and business ideas to benefit your community.\nThey are about local action for local benefit. They are about communities taking control, shaping their future and making things happen. They encourage everyone to get involved and play their part.\nThey can:\n• Build community resilience and independence\n• Be curators and custodians of a place or town centre\n• Develop and manage assets which create revenue to fund community projects\nOne or more of the following options could be investigated, depending on circumstances:\n\nLand sold by or leased from local or State Governments for peppercorn or reduced cost\nLoan at either market or reduced rate\nSocial impact superannuation investment\nPhilanthropy\nGrants (e.g. Lotterywest)\nCommunity share issue\nCash at bank for a town team\nJoint venture\nSocial or community bonds\nPartnerships (e.g. Rotary, Lions etc)\n\nA town team or other community entity, as advisors and guardians, can curate and be stewards of the place because they have some means of delivery through ownership of assets, which can also deliver a long-term, relatively predictable revenue stream\nSound challenging. Well, here are some example of communities in Australia that have done it. There are 500 Community Development Trusts in the U.K. and probably thousands in North America. Let’s do it!\nNyabing in Western Australia bought their local pub.\nCoorow in Western Australia also bought a pub and so did Nandaly in Victoria\nGnowangerup (WA)- formed a co-operative and setting up a retail hub in town\nMEEDAC is an Aboriginal Corporation that runs social enterprises in farming\nCorryong in Victoria bought their own bakery\nAnd there are more example of communities doing it for themselves at https://www.coopdevelopment.org.au/communitybuyouts.html\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"6a27d4e183a077520643c465","name":"Leadership","slug":"leadership","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2019-06-09T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1e1d05e7c6517d42135d4","name":"Town Team Movement Gets Another Boost","path":"/posts/town-team-movement-gets-another-boost","slug":"town-team-movement-gets-another-boost","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"\nWelcome Jimmy, Karen and David!\n","text":"<ImageAsset id=\"69b1e1b05e7c6517d42135d0\" />\nWelcome Jimmy, Karen and David!\n"},"content":{"text":"Jimmy was the animating force behind the creation of Town Team Movement and is currently Chair of the Board of Directors. He will be joining in a full-time capacity to lead the Conference 2019 team and our philanthropic and sponsorship campaigns. He was previously co-founder, Director and Festival Producer at Upbeat Events.\n\nKaren has joined the Board as a Non-Executive Director. She is General Manager of RTR FM and has experience across creative and community projects, organisational development and project management. She is passionate about placemaking and is a committee member of the North Perth Local town team.\n\nDavid founded Spaced Out Placemakers. His innovative approach, passion and connection with people has helped communities around Australia. His expertise in place activation, community engagement, events and workshop facilitation will be a major asset for our team. He will lead our consulting team helping local governments, state government agencies and property professionals.\n\nTown Team Movement is an ‘under-arching’, non-profit organisation. Our purpose is inspiring active citizenship and supporting town teams across Australia and New Zealand to build connected, resilient communities and better places.\n\nChief Executive Officer, Dean Cracknell, says the appointments will help deliver on the company’s strategic objectives.\n\n“We are fortunate and privileged to be able to attract three amazing people to join us on our journey”, he said. “Jimmy and David are already out there making a difference in the community, and Karen brings new skills and expertise to our Board.\n\nWe’re really excited about the future and will continue to help the 26 town teams to do what they want to do to improve their local communities”."},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"\nWelcome Jimmy, Karen and David!\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1777627246/doing-collective/banner/town-team-movement-a-postive-group-1_thumbnail__town_team_movement_a_postive_group_bisc2c.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1777627246/doing-collective/banner/town-team-movement-a-postive-group-1_thumbnail__town_team_movement_a_postive_group_bisc2c.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1777627246/doing-collective/banner/town-team-movement-a-postive-group-1_thumbnail__town_team_movement_a_postive_group_bisc2c.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1777627246/doing-collective/banner/town-team-movement-a-postive-group-1_thumbnail__town_team_movement_a_postive_group_bisc2c.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1777627246/doing-collective/banner/town-team-movement-a-postive-group-1_thumbnail__town_team_movement_a_postive_group_bisc2c.webp"}}}},"type":{"id":"69f82d67dd6cda552a6bed84","name":"News","slug":"news","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2019-05-07T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1e2e95e7c6517d42135e3","name":"Where did the ‘town team’ name come from?","path":"/posts/where-did-the-town-team-name-come-from-1","slug":"where-did-the-town-team-name-come-from-1","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"","text":""},"content":{"text":"Retail expert, Mary Portas, came up with the town team name in 2011 in the United Kingdom. The first town team in Australia, the Beaufort Street Network, had already hit upon the same idea when it formed in 2009.\n\nPortas was commissioned by the UK government to conduct an independent review of the state of nation’s high streets and town centres in 2011. Her report is still one of the best reports to guide the future of town centres in Australia.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1e2955e7c6517d42135dc\" />\n\nShe found that “the one – perhaps the only – thing everybody I have spoken to is agreed on is that for a high street to survive and grow it must have a very clear vision of where it wants to get to.”\n\n“Critically, the new Town Teams would set out a clear vision for their town. One size won’t fit all so each vision will need to be unique.”\n\nHer number one idea of 27 recommendations was to form “Town Teams”.\n\n“We need the belief and engagement of all the local stakeholders to create the sustainable high streets of the future. The best results will come from maximum collaboration at the local level to create high streets that people want to use, enjoy and return to.”\n\n“Change on our high streets will come from people not just policies. Charismatic, local people with a vested interest in protecting their town centres and revitalising their communities will, if empowered to do so, inevitably lead the charge for change.”\n\n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Retail expert, Mary Portas, came up with the town team name in 2011 in the United Kingdom. The first town team in Australia, the Beaufort Street Network, had already hit upon the same idea when it formed in 2009.\nPortas was commissioned by the UK government to conduct an independent review of the state of nation’s high streets and town centres in 2011. Her report is still one of the best reports to guide the future of town centres in Australia.\n\n\nShe found that “the one – perhaps the only – thing everybody I have spoken to is agreed on is that for a high street to survive and grow it must have a very clear vision of where it wants to get to.”\n“Critically, the new Town Teams would set out a clear vision for their town. One size won’t fit all so each vision will need to be unique.”\nHer number one idea of 27 recommendations was to form “Town Teams”.\n“We need the belief and engagement of all the local stakeholders to create the sustainable high streets of the future. The best results will come from maximum collaboration at the local level to create high streets that people want to use, enjoy and return to.”\n“Change on our high streets will come from people not just policies. Charismatic, local people with a vested interest in protecting their town centres and revitalising their communities will, if empowered to do so, inevitably lead the charge for change.”\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"69f82d67dd6cda552a6bed84","name":"News","slug":"news","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2019-04-02T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1e55c5e7c6517d4213607","name":"Celebrating 10 Local Government Innovations of 2018","path":"/posts/celebrating-10-local-government-innovations-of-2018","slug":"celebrating-10-local-government-innovations-of-2018","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"","text":""},"content":{"text":"Local governments have a tough job. But there are some inspiring success stories from 2018 that need to be told. Things are changing for the better. It’s important to recognise and celebrate innovation and help the best ideas to spread to more areas.\n\nWe’ve put together this (subjective) list of 10 of our highlights from 2018. These initiatives have the potential to help town teams and local communities to thrive.\n\nHere goes, in no particular order of priority (except for #1).\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1e3845e7c6517d42135eb\" />\n\n**1. The Future of Local Government Declaration**\n\nThis innovation is fittingly at the top of list because it is so fundamental and important.\n\nCoordinated by the Municipal Association of Victoria and signed by hundreds of Mayors and CEOs from around Australia, the Declaration clearly outlines the governance, environmental and societal challenges ahead and what to do about them.\n\nSome of the highlights include:\n\n- *This declaration rests on a belief that the state of the nation and the health of our society depend on community-driven action in the neighbourhood, not just decisions made in parliaments or boardrooms.*\n- *It’s time to explore a new model of governance, one based on a re-energised civil society that draws on the strength and resourcefulness of people working together …*\n- *Commit to collaboration with other councils, State and Federal governments, business and civil society as an essential way of working*\n- *Adopt a decentralised model for their own activities, including place-based planning and service delivery, and devolving decision-making to communities.*\n\nFind out more at: https://www.mav.asn.au/what-we-do/sector-development/future-of-local-government\n\n------\n\n \n\n**2. Wigan Council’s (United Kingdom) ‘The Deal’**\n\nThe simplicity and clarity of this approach are genius. It’s a call for a partnership between the local government and local community to improve their area. Governments are not just service-providers, but [enablers](https://www.themandarin.com.au/101662-enablement-how-governments-can-achieve-more-by-letting-go/?utm_campaign=TheJuice&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter). Highly recommended!\n\nhttps://www.wigan.gov.uk/Council/The-Deal/index.aspx\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1e3b65e7c6517d42135ee\" />\n\n\n**3. Town of Vic Park’s Place-Led Approach**\n\nThe Town of Vic Park is on a journey to be Perth’s most empowered and engaged community. They are also probably leading the way in Australia with their place-led approach. Led by the Council and visionary CEO, Anthony Vuleta, the Town has values that include:\n\n- We will be PROACTIVE – We will look to cause positive things to happen rather than waiting to respond.\n- We will be INNOVATIVE – We will be courageous in introducing new ideas to meet community need and improve our services and projects.\n\nThe talk is being matched with action and the organisation is transitioning to a place-led approach.\n\nWe’re looking forward to seeing the results in 2019!\n\nhttps://www.victoriapark.wa.gov.au/About-Council/Who-are-we/Vision-mission-values\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1e3e95e7c6517d42135f1\" />\n\n4. City of Vincent’s New Street Activations Policy\n\nClosing a road to hold a street party, play street or event is now a simpler online process in the City of Vincent. Congratulations as this is the best placemaking policy going around!\n\nWhy It’s So Good!\n\nCommunity members can access a range of support from the City, including financial assistance, in-kind support, public liability cover, road closure equipment, traffic management templates and more\nRangers can assist in setting up the barriers and signs to close off the road, so the community can focus on organising the fun\nThere’s a toolkit, online form and community grants simplify street closures for small scale events\nPublic liability insurance is often a deal-breaker. In fact, it kills placemaking ideas. Vincent is now covering public liability insurance requirements for unincorporated groups. This is a game-changer as it encourages people to do things in public spaces.\n\nThe Rae Street Play Street in Leederville has been happening once a month on Sundays for almost three years to allow for a regular afternoon of free play on the street.\n\nLearn more at:\n\nhttps://www.vincent.wa.gov.au/news/paving-the-way-for-more-neighbourhood-street-events-in-vincent/622\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1e41b5e7c6517d42135f4\" />\n\n5. Managing Places to Life (not managing them to death)\n\nOK, so the City Renewal Authority in Canberra isn’t technically a local government. But we have squeezed it in to this list because of the importance of this concept to local governments.\n\nAndy Sharp and the team at the CRA observe that most places are “managed to death”. Their success is choked by focussing on minimising maintenance costs, complex processes, over-engineering and a lack of understanding that the real role of governments is to create great places, individuals and communities. It has been a whole lot easier to say “no” rather than helping to make it happen.\n\nThe CRA is managing places to life by encouraging activities and events, redesigning spaces, breaking down bureaucratic silos and working closely with local businesses and residents.\n\n“Managing places to life” encapsulates much of what we are about. Bring it on!\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1e4415e7c6517d42135f7\" />\nAndy Sharp from City Renewal Authority, Canberra\n\n**6. City of Stirling and City of Perth $20,000 Town Team Grants**\n\nThe Cities of Stirling and Perth have grant programs in place to support town teams and neighbourhood groups. This makes it so much easier for volunteer organisations and helps them to do more for their community.\n\nTown teams like [Inglewood on Beaufort](https://inglewoodonbeaufort.com/) have put this money to very good use to improve their local area. They can make every dollar go alot further – “more bang for buck”!\n\nMoney isn’t everything, but it sure helps! Well done Stirling and Perth!\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1e47d5e7c6517d42135fa\" />\n7. City of Subiaco Change of Use Policy (Policy 2.28)\n\nLocal planning policies don’t normally tick the innovation policy. But this one does, because it does less.\n\nNormally, a ‘change of land use’, from say an office to a shop, requires an approval. These applications can get bogged down for months or become expensive because of issues like car parking. For example, if you have an old shopfront building, how can more parking be created if you don’t have any physical space to do it?\n\nSubiaco has made it easier for local businesses by getting rid of the requirement for a formal change of use application in the Town Centre. This saves a new or start-up business months, lots of paperwork, stress and money.\n\nIf you don’t know what a “change of use” application is, hunt down one of your urban planners and get them to explain. All local governments should have a similar policy for their town centres.\n\nhttps://www.subiaco.wa.gov.au/Planning-and-development/planning/Town-planning-controls-and-policies\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1e4d35e7c6517d42135fd\" />\n\n**8. Bayswater’s Verge Policy**\n\nCity of Bayswater residents can grow water-wise, native plants on the verge (nature strip) as well as fruit trees and vegetables thanks to new guidelines approved in 2018.\n\nWhilst this should be a no-brainer, many local governments don’t allow fruit trees or vegetables to be grown on verges. We must be a super-rich country to outlaw local food production! Anyway, read more at:\n\nhttp://www.bayswater.wa.gov.au/trees/verge-gardens\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1e5025e7c6517d4213600\" />\nPhoto credit: WA Today\n\n**9. Project Robin Hood**\n\nThe City of Melville’s Project Robin Hood is a participatory budgeting program that provides a total funding pool of $100,000 ($20,000 per project) for community ideas, projects or events that bring people together and build better neighbourhoods.\n\nThe community nominates projects, the community votes on which projects get funded and then the community delivers the projects. The local government plays the role of facilitator, funder and supporter. The results have been amazing and inspiring.\n\nProject Robin Hood is now in its fourth round after beginning in 2014.\n\nhttps://www.melvillecity.com.au/our-community/grants-scholarships-and-sponsorship/project-robin-hood\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1e5315e7c6517d4213603\" />\n\n**10. Town Teams in Regional Areas**\n\nTown teams are not just a “city thing”. In fact, we are trying to bottle the country spirit of volunteerism and civic participation and bring it to urban and suburban areas. Town teams are a natural fit for regional areas.\n\nThe Shire of Capel is engaging with the community in Dalyellup, W.A. on how to activate and connect people and community groups.\n\nAs Town Team Movement grows, we will prioritise spreading the town team model to regional areas.\n\nhttp://capel.wa.gov.au/community-engagement-in-dalyellup/\n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Local governments have a tough job. But there are some inspiring success stories from 2018 that need to be told. Things are changing for the better. It’s important to recognise and celebrate innovation and help the best ideas to spread to more areas.\nWe’ve put together this (subjective) list of 10 of our highlights from 2018. These initiatives have the potential to help town teams and local communities to thrive.\nHere goes, in no particular order of priority (except for #1).\n\n\n1. The Future of Local Government Declaration\nThis innovation is fittingly at the top of list because it is so fundamental and important.\nCoordinated by the Municipal Association of Victoria and signed by hundreds of Mayors and CEOs from around Australia, the Declaration clearly outlines the governance, environmental and societal challenges ahead and what to do about them.\nSome of the highlights include:\n\nThis declaration rests on a belief that the state of the nation and the health of our society depend on community-driven action in the neighbourhood, not just decisions made in parliaments or boardrooms.\nIt’s time to explore a new model of governance, one based on a re-energised civil society that draws on the strength and resourcefulness of people working together …\nCommit to collaboration with other councils, State and Federal governments, business and civil society as an essential way of working\nAdopt a decentralised model for their own activities, including place-based planning and service delivery, and devolving decision-making to communities.\n\nFind out more at: https://www.mav.asn.au/what-we-do/sector-development/future-of-local-government\n\n2. Wigan Council’s (United Kingdom) ‘The Deal’\nThe simplicity and clarity of this approach are genius. It’s a call for a partnership between the local government and local community to improve their area. Governments are not just service-providers, but enablers. Highly recommended!\nhttps://www.wigan.gov.uk/Council/The-Deal/index.aspx\n\n\n\n3. Town of Vic Park’s Place-Led Approach\nThe Town of Vic Park is on a journey to be Perth’s most empowered and engaged community. They are also probably leading the way in Australia with their place-led approach. Led by the Council and visionary CEO, Anthony Vuleta, the Town has values that include:\n\nWe will be PROACTIVE – We will look to cause positive things to happen rather than waiting to respond.\nWe will be INNOVATIVE – We will be courageous in introducing new ideas to meet community need and improve our services and projects.\n\nThe talk is being matched with action and the organisation is transitioning to a place-led approach.\nWe’re looking forward to seeing the results in 2019!\nhttps://www.victoriapark.wa.gov.au/About-Council/Who-are-we/Vision-mission-values\n\n\n\nCity of Vincent’s New Street Activations Policy\n\nClosing a road to hold a street party, play street or event is now a simpler online process in the City of Vincent. Congratulations as this is the best placemaking policy going around!\nWhy It’s So Good!\nCommunity members can access a range of support from the City, including financial assistance, in-kind support, public liability cover, road closure equipment, traffic management templates and more\nRangers can assist in setting up the barriers and signs to close off the road, so the community can focus on organising the fun\nThere’s a toolkit, online form and community grants simplify street closures for small scale events\nPublic liability insurance is often a deal-breaker. In fact, it kills placemaking ideas. Vincent is now covering public liability insurance requirements for unincorporated groups. This is a game-changer as it encourages people to do things in public spaces.\nThe Rae Street Play Street in Leederville has been happening once a month on Sundays for almost three years to allow for a regular afternoon of free play on the street.\nLearn more at:\nhttps://www.vincent.wa.gov.au/news/paving-the-way-for-more-neighbourhood-street-events-in-vincent/622\n\n\n\nManaging Places to Life (not managing them to death)\n\nOK, so the City Renewal Authority in Canberra isn’t technically a local government. But we have squeezed it in to this list because of the importance of this concept to local governments.\nAndy Sharp and the team at the CRA observe that most places are “managed to death”. Their success is choked by focussing on minimising maintenance costs, complex processes, over-engineering and a lack of understanding that the real role of governments is to create great places, individuals and communities. It has been a whole lot easier to say “no” rather than helping to make it happen.\nThe CRA is managing places to life by encouraging activities and events, redesigning spaces, breaking down bureaucratic silos and working closely with local businesses and residents.\n“Managing places to life” encapsulates much of what we are about. Bring it on!\n\nAndy Sharp from City Renewal Authority, Canberra\n\n6. City of Stirling and City of Perth $20,000 Town Team Grants\nThe Cities of Stirling and Perth have grant programs in place to support town teams and neighbourhood groups. This makes it so much easier for volunteer organisations and helps them to do more for their community.\nTown teams like Inglewood on Beaufort have put this money to very good use to improve their local area. They can make every dollar go alot further – “more bang for buck”!\nMoney isn’t everything, but it sure helps! Well done Stirling and Perth!\n\n7. City of Subiaco Change of Use Policy (Policy 2.28)\n\nLocal planning policies don’t normally tick the innovation policy. But this one does, because it does less.\nNormally, a ‘change of land use’, from say an office to a shop, requires an approval. These applications can get bogged down for months or become expensive because of issues like car parking. For example, if you have an old shopfront building, how can more parking be created if you don’t have any physical space to do it?\nSubiaco has made it easier for local businesses by getting rid of the requirement for a formal change of use application in the Town Centre. This saves a new or start-up business months, lots of paperwork, stress and money.\nIf you don’t know what a “change of use” application is, hunt down one of your urban planners and get them to explain. All local governments should have a similar policy for their town centres.\nhttps://www.subiaco.wa.gov.au/Planning-and-development/planning/Town-planning-controls-and-policies\n\n\n8. Bayswater’s Verge Policy\nCity of Bayswater residents can grow water-wise, native plants on the verge (nature strip) as well as fruit trees and vegetables thanks to new guidelines approved in 2018.\nWhilst this should be a no-brainer, many local governments don’t allow fruit trees or vegetables to be grown on verges. We must be a super-rich country to outlaw local food production! Anyway, read more at:\nhttp://www.bayswater.wa.gov.au/trees/verge-gardens\n\nPhoto credit: WA Today\n\n9. Project Robin Hood\nThe City of Melville’s Project Robin Hood is a participatory budgeting program that provides a total funding pool of $100,000 ($20,000 per project) for community ideas, projects or events that bring people together and build better neighbourhoods.\nThe community nominates projects, the community votes on which projects get funded and then the community delivers the projects. The local government plays the role of facilitator, funder and supporter. The results have been amazing and inspiring.\nProject Robin Hood is now in its fourth round after beginning in 2014.\nhttps://www.melvillecity.com.au/our-community/grants-scholarships-and-sponsorship/project-robin-hood\n\n\n10. Town Teams in Regional Areas\nTown teams are not just a “city thing”. In fact, we are trying to bottle the country spirit of volunteerism and civic participation and bring it to urban and suburban areas. Town teams are a natural fit for regional areas.\nThe Shire of Capel is engaging with the community in Dalyellup, W.A. on how to activate and connect people and community groups.\nAs Town Team Movement grows, we will prioritise spreading the town team model to regional areas.\nhttp://capel.wa.gov.au/community-engagement-in-dalyellup/\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"69f82d67dd6cda552a6bed84","name":"News","slug":"news","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2018-01-07T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1e6165e7c6517d4213613","name":"Workshop on Community Economics and Placemaking","path":"/posts/workshop-on-community-economics-and-placemaking","slug":"workshop-on-community-economics-and-placemaking","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"A Masterclass with Michael H. Shuman and Gilbert Rochecouste\n","text":"A Masterclass with Michael H. Shuman and Gilbert Rochecouste"},"content":{"text":"\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1e5fb5e7c6517d421360f\" />\n\n Michael and Gilbert will help participants formulate a plan for community revitalisation by introducing the latest tools of economy building, community capital, and placemaking. \n\n**When: 10am – 4pm Thursday 7 February 2019\n\nWhere: City Farm in Perth**\n\n**Cost: $340 + GST (non-profts may be eligible for discounts)**\n\nFurther Information: \n\n[www.villagewell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/181213_Michael-Shuman_Going-Local.pdf](http://www.villagewell.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/181213_Michael-Shuman_Going-Local.pdf)\n\nBookings: \n\nhttps://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=455093&"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"A Masterclass with Michael H. Shuman and Gilbert Rochecouste\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"69f82d1bdd6cda552a6bed70","name":"Event","slug":"event","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2018-12-21T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1e69b5e7c6517d421361c","name":"What’s the story of your place?","path":"/posts/whats-the-story-of-your-place","slug":"whats-the-story-of-your-place","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"","text":""},"content":{"text":"Cities, neighbourhoods and places are shaped by the way people think about them. A place can suffer a negative run on confidence if enough people decide it’s declining. But a struggling neighborhood can also be turned around by a small group of leaders and innovators.\n\nBelieve it or not, Melbourne was not always a cool place. It was decidedly uncool in the 1990s. It was boring. Liquor laws were very restrictive and innovation was very hard work. But there were leaders who believed it could and should be better. They performed “illegal acts of love” (which broke some bureaucratic rules in a good way) to help activate Melbourne’s laneways, which up until that point were just places for rubbish bins and junkies. Liquor laws were changed and innovative businesses were promoted. And the result? Melbourne became cool and these initial successes bred more success. It became a positive spiral upwards.\n\nTry and nail your place’s story in three or four sentences. Then aim for a positive vision for the future. What do you want it to become? You need to get people on board to help make the vision a reality.\n\nSpend time on a compelling, positive vision and you’ll bring lots of people with you!\n\nThere probably isn’t a vision for your place (though do check with your local government though to make sure) yet. If there’s nothing formal to build on, working with businesses and residents on a vision for the future of your place is probably the best thing you can do.\n\nHow do you capture suggestions for your vision, you ask? You could throw a street party or some other event. Walk around asking for people’s ideas, or set up a suggestions booth. Or you could run an online survey with Survey Monkey. Online surveys are easy and free ways to find out what people would like to see happen.\n\nThe more you put into your vision, the more you’ll get out of it!"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Cities, neighbourhoods and places are shaped by the way people think about them. A place can suffer a negative run on confidence if enough people decide it’s declining. But a struggling neighborhood can also be turned around by a small group of leaders and innovators.\nBelieve it or not, Melbourne was not always a cool place. It was decidedly uncool in the 1990s. It was boring. Liquor laws were very restrictive and innovation was very hard work. But there were leaders who believed it could and should be better. They performed “illegal acts of love” (which broke some bureaucratic rules in a good way) to help activate Melbourne’s laneways, which up until that point were just places for rubbish bins and junkies. Liquor laws were changed and innovative businesses were promoted. And the result? Melbourne became cool and these initial successes bred more success. It became a positive spiral upwards.\nTry and nail your place’s story in three or four sentences. Then aim for a positive vision for the future. What do you want it to become? You need to get people on board to help make the vision a reality.\nSpend time on a compelling, positive vision and you’ll bring lots of people with you!\nThere probably isn’t a vision for your place (though do check with your local government though to make sure) yet. If there’s nothing formal to build on, working with businesses and residents on a vision for the future of your place is probably the best thing you can do.\nHow do you capture suggestions for your vision, you ask? You could throw a street party or some other event. Walk around asking for people’s ideas, or set up a suggestions booth. Or you could run an online survey with Survey Monkey. Online surveys are easy and free ways to find out what people would like to see happen.\nThe more you put into your vision, the more you’ll get out of it!\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"6a27d62783a077520643c47f","name":"Placemaking","slug":"placemaking","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2018-11-12T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1e7c55e7c6517d4213629","name":"Place Improvement Districts: a governance and business model based on places and people","path":"/posts/place-improvement-districts-a-governance-and-business-model-based-on-places-and-people","slug":"place-improvement-districts-a-governance-and-business-model-based-on-places-and-people","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"","text":""},"content":{"text":"Placemaking has become a bit of a thing. It’s trendy. But do we really understand the importance of place? Could we refashion our governance and service-delivery around places? And how do you and why should you fund all this placemaking stuff anyway?\n\n*Governance, on every scale, is not set up to create great places. In fact, the current culture and structure of government and civic infrastructure may be the greatest obstacle (more than money, ideas, talent, infrastructure, etc.) to successful Placemaking.*\n\n*Currently, no department or community organization is in charge of creating good places. Even when everyone is doing their job masterfully, great places generally fall outside of everyone’s mission and goals. In fact, in siloed departments the desired outcomes of mobility, economic development, safety, cultural development, tourism, etc. are inevitably in conflict and competition, frequently undermining the public realm that determines their ultimate success.*\n\nhttps://www.pps.org/article/toward-place-governance-civic-infrastructure-placemaking\n\nBIDs can work (for example – the [Rundle Mall Management Authority](http://rundlemall.com/about/rundle-mall-management-authority/)), but have a number of fundamental issues:\n\n- BIDs are a rate levy, essentially paid for by retail and commercial businesses (landlords typically pass on any costs to tenants or leases require tenants to pay)\n- Whilst retail and commercial businesses pay the levy, and usually benefit in the short-term, they often lose in the long-term as rents rise as foot traffic rises. The businesses can afford to pay higher rents if they are making more money, but can be forced out if they cannot afford higher rents\n- There is no responsibility or buy-in from other stakeholders. Residents or visitors don’t care as the idea is about business improvement (rather than place or community improvement)\n- Non-business land uses, such as residential, which will be a growing component of city and town centres, don’t contribute in any way\n- BIDs create a new organisation, usually with new costs and overheads, instead of working in and with existing organisations\n- BIDs often promote placemaking and place activation activities, but they don’t enable others to act to make these actions sustainable in the long-term. They can be sustained as long as the funding stream continues, but if / when funding reduces, these activities slow down or stop. Combining the skills and experience of professionals with the passion, connections and knowledge of local businesses and residents could be a very effective model\n- Creating great places is everyone’s responsibility, not just the responsibility of local businesses. The costs and responsibilities should therefore be shared\n\nA place-led approach is all about creating thriving, connected and sustainable places. It helps to focus governments, businesses, landowners and residents on the importance of the place.\n\nA place-led approach and placemaking are also critical for the long-term financial viability of local governments.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1e75f5e7c6517d4213623\" />\n\nImplementing one or more of the following options could help fund place improvements:\n\n- Empowering the community to act by working with a positive and proactive town team, which harnesses the knowledge, passion, experience and connections of local businesses, landowners and residents to improve the place\n- Growing the local government’s revenue base through strategic place investment\n- Hypothecating parking revenue so that some or all of the parking revenue derived from the place is spent on improving the place\n- Place rate levy across all ratepayers (as all ratepayers will benefit)\n- Make policies place-focussed (including those that require financial contributions to be made such as cash-in-lieu-of-car parking)\n- Including Community Benefits provisions in the urban planning framework\n- Encouraging appropriate redevelopment by making it clear and easy for prospective investors\n\nThe key decision is whether the local government would like to be service and expertise-led or place and citizen-led. Businesses, landowners and residents also need to take responsibility and take action.\n\nNone of these ideas are new, but we think combining them in to a Place Improvement District model can present a new way for local governments and communities to #makeithappen.\n\n**More information:**\n\nIf you’d like to know more, email us at [hello@townteammovement.com](mailto:hello@townteammovement.com) "},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Placemaking has become a bit of a thing. It’s trendy. But do we really understand the importance of place? Could we refashion our governance and service-delivery around places? And how do you and why should you fund all this placemaking stuff anyway?\nGovernance, on every scale, is not set up to create great places. In fact, the current culture and structure of government and civic infrastructure may be the greatest obstacle (more than money, ideas, talent, infrastructure, etc.) to successful Placemaking.\nCurrently, no department or community organization is in charge of creating good places. Even when everyone is doing their job masterfully, great places generally fall outside of everyone’s mission and goals. In fact, in siloed departments the desired outcomes of mobility, economic development, safety, cultural development, tourism, etc. are inevitably in conflict and competition, frequently undermining the public realm that determines their ultimate success.\nhttps://www.pps.org/article/toward-place-governance-civic-infrastructure-placemaking\nBIDs can work (for example – the Rundle Mall Management Authority), but have a number of fundamental issues:\n\nBIDs are a rate levy, essentially paid for by retail and commercial businesses (landlords typically pass on any costs to tenants or leases require tenants to pay)\nWhilst retail and commercial businesses pay the levy, and usually benefit in the short-term, they often lose in the long-term as rents rise as foot traffic rises. The businesses can afford to pay higher rents if they are making more money, but can be forced out if they cannot afford higher rents\nThere is no responsibility or buy-in from other stakeholders. Residents or visitors don’t care as the idea is about business improvement (rather than place or community improvement)\nNon-business land uses, such as residential, which will be a growing component of city and town centres, don’t contribute in any way\nBIDs create a new organisation, usually with new costs and overheads, instead of working in and with existing organisations\nBIDs often promote placemaking and place activation activities, but they don’t enable others to act to make these actions sustainable in the long-term. They can be sustained as long as the funding stream continues, but if / when funding reduces, these activities slow down or stop. Combining the skills and experience of professionals with the passion, connections and knowledge of local businesses and residents could be a very effective model\nCreating great places is everyone’s responsibility, not just the responsibility of local businesses. The costs and responsibilities should therefore be shared\n\nA place-led approach is all about creating thriving, connected and sustainable places. It helps to focus governments, businesses, landowners and residents on the importance of the place.\nA place-led approach and placemaking are also critical for the long-term financial viability of local governments.\n\n\nImplementing one or more of the following options could help fund place improvements:\n\nEmpowering the community to act by working with a positive and proactive town team, which harnesses the knowledge, passion, experience and connections of local businesses, landowners and residents to improve the place\nGrowing the local government’s revenue base through strategic place investment\nHypothecating parking revenue so that some or all of the parking revenue derived from the place is spent on improving the place\nPlace rate levy across all ratepayers (as all ratepayers will benefit)\nMake policies place-focussed (including those that require financial contributions to be made such as cash-in-lieu-of-car parking)\nIncluding Community Benefits provisions in the urban planning framework\nEncouraging appropriate redevelopment by making it clear and easy for prospective investors\n\nThe key decision is whether the local government would like to be service and expertise-led or place and citizen-led. Businesses, landowners and residents also need to take responsibility and take action.\nNone of these ideas are new, but we think combining them in to a Place Improvement District model can present a new way for local governments and communities to #makeithappen.\nMore information:\nIf you’d like to know more, email us at hello@townteammovement.com \n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1773266860/doing-collective/banner/place-improvement-banner_image__PLACE-IMPROVEMENT-DISTRICT-DIAGRAM_updated_landscape-with-logo-1536x1087_vlmp5p.png","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1773266860/doing-collective/banner/place-improvement-banner_image__PLACE-IMPROVEMENT-DISTRICT-DIAGRAM_updated_landscape-with-logo-1536x1087_vlmp5p.png","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1773266860/doing-collective/banner/place-improvement-banner_image__PLACE-IMPROVEMENT-DISTRICT-DIAGRAM_updated_landscape-with-logo-1536x1087_vlmp5p.png"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1773266860/doing-collective/banner/place-improvement-banner_image__PLACE-IMPROVEMENT-DISTRICT-DIAGRAM_updated_landscape-with-logo-1536x1087_vlmp5p.png","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1773266860/doing-collective/banner/place-improvement-banner_image__PLACE-IMPROVEMENT-DISTRICT-DIAGRAM_updated_landscape-with-logo-1536x1087_vlmp5p.png"}}}},"type":{"id":"6a27d4e183a077520643c465","name":"Leadership","slug":"leadership","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2018-10-30T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1e90f5e7c6517d421363b","name":"Stronger Citizens, Stronger Cities: Improving Our Democracy by Focussing on Places","path":"/posts/stronger-citizens-stronger-cities-improving-our-democracy-by-focussing-on-places","slug":"stronger-citizens-stronger-cities-improving-our-democracy-by-focussing-on-places","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"","text":""},"content":{"text":" If you want to dig deeper, this is an edited version of one of the best articles we have read, written by the place gurus – Project for Public Spaces. It explains why places, community empowerment, citizenship and democracy are all linked.\n\nThe original article is available on this link – https://www.pps.org/article/stronger-citizens-stronger-cities-changing-governance-through-a-focus-on-place\n\nOr read on for the best bits.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1e8b05e7c6517d4213635\" />\n**Stronger Citizens, Stronger Cities: Changing Governance Through a Focus on Place**\n\nWritten by Project Public Spaces – [www.pps.org](http://www.pps.org/)\n\n**A great place is something that everybody can create.** If vibrancy is people, [as we argued two weeks ago](http://www.pps.org/blog/placemaking-as-community-creativity-how-a-shared-focus-on-place-builds-vibrant-destinations/), the only way to make a city vibrant again is to make room for more of them. Today, in the first of a two-part follow up, we will explore how Placemaking, by positioning public spaces at the heart of action-oriented community dialog, makes room both physically and philosophically by re-framing citizenship as an on-going, creative collaboration between neighbors. The result is not merely vibrancy, but equity.\n\n**In equitable places, individual citizens feel (first) that they are welcome, and (second) that it is within their power to change those places through their own actions.**\n\n“The huge problem with citizenship today is that people don’t take it very seriously,” says Harry Boyte, director of the [Center for Democracy and Citizenship](http://www.augsburg.edu/democracy/) at Augsburg College. “The two dominant frameworks for citizenship in political theory,” he explains, “are the liberal framework, where citizens are voters and consumers of goods, and the communitarian framework, where citizens are volunteers and members of communities. In other words, for most people, citizenship is doing good deeds, or it’s voting and getting things. **We need to develop the idea of civic agency**, **where citizens are co-creators of democracy and the democratic way of life**.”\n\nIt is bewildering, when you take a step back, to realize how far we’ve gotten away from that last statement. We have completely divorced governance from citizenship, and built thick silo walls around government by creating an opaque, discipline-driven approach to problem-solving. Busting those silo walls is imperative to creating more equitable communities. Rather than trying, haplessly, to solve transportation, housing, or health problems separately, as if they exist within a vacuum, government should be focused on building stronger place.\n\n“**Democracy is not a government, it’s a society**,” argues Boyte. “We have to develop an idea that democracy is the work of the people. It’s citizen-centered democracy, not state- or government-centered democracy. That doesn’t mean government doesn’t play an important role, but if you think about government as the center of the universe, we need something like a Copernican revolution.”\n\nMatt Leighninger, the director of the [Deliberative Democracy Consortium](http://www.deliberative-democracy.net/) (a Community Matters partner) echoes this need when talking about his own work in engaging communities. “The shortcoming of [a lot of community dialog] work,” he says, “is that it is too often set up to address a particular issue, and then once it’s over, it’s *over*. You would think that people having an experience like that would lead them to seek out opportunities to do it again on other issues, but that often doesn’t happen. Unless there’s a social circle or ecosystem that encourages them and honors their contributions, it’s not likely that they’re going to stay involved.”\n\nCreating that support system is what Place Governance is all about. In addition to their capacity for creating a sense of attachment to place, great public destinations, through the interactive way in which they are developed and managed, challenge people to think more broadly about what it means to be a citizen.\n\n**If the dominant framework for understanding citizenship today is passive, with citizens ‘receiving’ government services and being ‘given’ rights, then we need to develop affirmative cultures around citizen action.** We should also recognize that elected representatives are citizens, just as surely as we are ourselves. We need officials to focus on creating great places with their communities rather than solving isolated problems for distant constituents. Equitable places are not given, they are made, collaboratively. Everyone has a part to play, from the top down, and from the bottom up. “The default of consumer culture,” Boyte says of this much-needed shift in thinking about citizenship, “is that people ask what they can get, rather than thinking about what they could *build*, in terms of common resources.”\n\nGovernance is social, and citizenship is creative. The only things standing between where we are and where we want to be are those big, thick silo walls."},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":" If you want to dig deeper, this is an edited version of one of the best articles we have read, written by the place gurus – Project for Public Spaces. It explains why places, community empowerment, citizenship and democracy are all linked.\nThe original article is available on this link – https://www.pps.org/article/stronger-citizens-stronger-cities-changing-governance-through-a-focus-on-place\nOr read on for the best bits.\n\n**Stronger Citizens, Stronger Cities: Changing Governance Through a Focus on Place**\n\nWritten by Project Public Spaces – www.pps.org\nA great place is something that everybody can create. If vibrancy is people, as we argued two weeks ago, the only way to make a city vibrant again is to make room for more of them. Today, in the first of a two-part follow up, we will explore how Placemaking, by positioning public spaces at the heart of action-oriented community dialog, makes room both physically and philosophically by re-framing citizenship as an on-going, creative collaboration between neighbors. The result is not merely vibrancy, but equity.\nIn equitable places, individual citizens feel (first) that they are welcome, and (second) that it is within their power to change those places through their own actions.\n“The huge problem with citizenship today is that people don’t take it very seriously,” says Harry Boyte, director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at Augsburg College. “The two dominant frameworks for citizenship in political theory,” he explains, “are the liberal framework, where citizens are voters and consumers of goods, and the communitarian framework, where citizens are volunteers and members of communities. In other words, for most people, citizenship is doing good deeds, or it’s voting and getting things. We need to develop the idea of civic agency, where citizens are co-creators of democracy and the democratic way of life.”\nIt is bewildering, when you take a step back, to realize how far we’ve gotten away from that last statement. We have completely divorced governance from citizenship, and built thick silo walls around government by creating an opaque, discipline-driven approach to problem-solving. Busting those silo walls is imperative to creating more equitable communities. Rather than trying, haplessly, to solve transportation, housing, or health problems separately, as if they exist within a vacuum, government should be focused on building stronger place.\n“Democracy is not a government, it’s a society,” argues Boyte. “We have to develop an idea that democracy is the work of the people. It’s citizen-centered democracy, not state- or government-centered democracy. That doesn’t mean government doesn’t play an important role, but if you think about government as the center of the universe, we need something like a Copernican revolution.”\nMatt Leighninger, the director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium (a Community Matters partner) echoes this need when talking about his own work in engaging communities. “The shortcoming of [a lot of community dialog] work,” he says, “is that it is too often set up to address a particular issue, and then once it’s over, it’s over. You would think that people having an experience like that would lead them to seek out opportunities to do it again on other issues, but that often doesn’t happen. Unless there’s a social circle or ecosystem that encourages them and honors their contributions, it’s not likely that they’re going to stay involved.”\nCreating that support system is what Place Governance is all about. In addition to their capacity for creating a sense of attachment to place, great public destinations, through the interactive way in which they are developed and managed, challenge people to think more broadly about what it means to be a citizen.\nIf the dominant framework for understanding citizenship today is passive, with citizens ‘receiving’ government services and being ‘given’ rights, then we need to develop affirmative cultures around citizen action. We should also recognize that elected representatives are citizens, just as surely as we are ourselves. We need officials to focus on creating great places with their communities rather than solving isolated problems for distant constituents. Equitable places are not given, they are made, collaboratively. Everyone has a part to play, from the top down, and from the bottom up. “The default of consumer culture,” Boyte says of this much-needed shift in thinking about citizenship, “is that people ask what they can get, rather than thinking about what they could build, in terms of common resources.”\nGovernance is social, and citizenship is creative. The only things standing between where we are and where we want to be are those big, thick silo walls.\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1773267197/doing-collective/banner/pimp-my-park-will-schaefer_image__Pimp-My-Park-Will-Schaefer-600x600_zuf3ub.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1773267197/doing-collective/banner/pimp-my-park-will-schaefer_image__Pimp-My-Park-Will-Schaefer-600x600_zuf3ub.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1773267197/doing-collective/banner/pimp-my-park-will-schaefer_image__Pimp-My-Park-Will-Schaefer-600x600_zuf3ub.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1773267197/doing-collective/banner/pimp-my-park-will-schaefer_image__Pimp-My-Park-Will-Schaefer-600x600_zuf3ub.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1773267197/doing-collective/banner/pimp-my-park-will-schaefer_image__Pimp-My-Park-Will-Schaefer-600x600_zuf3ub.webp"}}}},"type":{"id":"6a27d62783a077520643c47f","name":"Placemaking","slug":"placemaking","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2018-10-10T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1ec575e7c6517d421364f","name":"Upgrading the Software of Our Communities","path":"/posts/upgrading-the-software-of-our-communities","slug":"upgrading-the-software-of-our-communities","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"There is plenty of talk about the urban ‘hardware’ required to support the city’s growth – roads, public transport, health and education facilities. But there is very little discussion nor thinking about the ‘software’ of the city – our communities, relationships and creativity.\n","text":"There is plenty of talk about the urban ‘hardware’ required to support the city’s growth – roads, public transport, health and education facilities. But there is very little discussion nor thinking about the ‘software’ of the city – our communities, relationships and creativity.\n\n"},"content":{"text":"Cities are not just physical entities. They have identities and characteristics that can change between the different areas and places. Places have a ‘vibe’.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1eb6e5e7c6517d4213643\" />\nVic Park Summer Street Party\nPhoto courtesy of Kay Wray and Vic Park Collective\n\nCities also depend on the quality of the relationships between the various agents involved: businesses, individuals, governments, landowners and many other organisations and people. These relationships are often strained and could be improved. Government and corporate structures are ‘siloed’ and focussed on services and expertise, rather than people and places.\n\n**The Hardware and Software of Places**\n\nJust like a computer, a place cannot work unless the hardware and software works together and get upgraded over time. They aren’t static. Here’s what we mean by hardware and software.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1ebb95e7c6517d4213646\" />\n\nPerth is experiencing many of the issues seen in other cities: social isolation; loss of community spirit; environmental challenges, struggling small businesses and growing frustration with the political system.\n\nIt’s time to explore a new model based on a re-energised civil society that draws on the ideas and resourcefulness of local people working together.\n\n**The Software Upgrade: Town Teams**\n\n**‘The imagination, the sweat, the enthusiasm, and the efforts of its people are the greatest resource that any place has at its disposal.’**\n\nMarcus Westbury – Creating Cities\n\n‘Town teams’ are positive and proactive organisations that include businesses, landowners and residents working collaboratively with their local government to improve a place or area, often a town centre or ‘main street’. They are leaders of and catalysts for change in their local area. The town team model breaks down the ‘silos’ that often divide businesses, residents and local governments.  They are not politically-aligned and are open to all who are willing to get involved.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1ebed5e7c6517d4213649\" />\n\nHistoric Heart of Perth is one of the existing [22 town teams in Perth](https://www.townteammovement.com/town-teams/). It was established with the aim of revitalising Perth’s east end.\n\n“Our vision is to reinvigorate and revitalise Perth’s east end by creating an identifiable neighbourhood with a strong sense of place, making a contribution to the city and, importantly, to the people who live, work and visit here. The benefits associated with this project are wide ranging – social, urban and economic”, says Historic Heart co-founder, Adrian Fini, Director of FJM Property.\n\n“The name ‘Historic Heart’ is designed to bring together the history of the urban environment (Historic) and the community and natural environment (Heart). The physical and cultural landscapes are intertwined – a city is not just about buildings but about people and their experiences within it.”\n\nTown Team Movement is an ‘under-arching’, non-profit organisation helping to create a network of town teams around Australia and New Zealand. The movement promotes civic leadership, active citizenship and community empowerment.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1ec305e7c6517d421364c\" />\n\n“Town teams have been achieving some amazing things around Perth”, says Jimmy Murphy, one of the co-creators of Town Team Movement.\n\n“They could achieve even more with the help and active support of local governments, State Government agencies and the business sector. They are an example of how we can improve the system without fundamentally changing the system”.\n\nJust like a computer, cities need good hardware and effective software. Otherwise they don’t work.\n\nIt’s time to upgrade the software of our city."},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"There is plenty of talk about the urban ‘hardware’ required to support the city’s growth – roads, public transport, health and education facilities. But there is very little discussion nor thinking about the ‘software’ of the city – our communities, relationships and creativity.\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"6a27d62783a077520643c47f","name":"Placemaking","slug":"placemaking","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2018-09-09T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1eda95e7c6517d421365c","name":"The Future of Leadership and Local Governance","path":"/posts/the-future-of-leadership-and-local-governance","slug":"the-future-of-leadership-and-local-governance","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"\n","text":"<ImageAsset id=\"69b1ed3d5e7c6517d4213656\" />\n"},"content":{"text":"#### **Only 35% of Australians Trust Government**\n\n```\n\n```\n\nThe percentage of Australians who say they have trust in their governments has declined to 35 percent. The metric is contained in the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer, which measures public trust in four types of institution across 28 countries. Australia is now in the bottom third of the countries surveyed. The report says that in modern society, citizens delegate important aspects of their life to the four institutions. “In order to feel safe delegating important aspects of our lives and well-being to others, we need to trust them to act with integrity and with our best interests in mind.”\n\n#### **Future of Local Government National Summit Declaration**\n\n```\n\n```\n\nThe Future of Local Government National Summit devised the declaration below in 2017. It aligns perfectly with our Town Team model as the movement spreads around Australia and New Zealand.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1ed765e7c6517d4213659\" />\n\n#### **The Declaration**\n\n```\n\n```\n\n“Across the world people are concerned about the apparent inability of governments, business and public institutions to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of the 21st Century.  **Our present ways of thinking and governing are neither coping with the pace of change nor meeting citizens’ expectations. There is an urgent need for a fresh approach and responsive leadership.**"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"6a27d4e183a077520643c465","name":"Leadership","slug":"leadership","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2018-07-15T00:00:00.00","authors":[{"openGraph":{"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null}},"_schema":{"label":"Person","pluralLabel":"People"},"id":"69a969580052ebfa8a2c5ffc","name":"Dean Cracknell","slug":"dean-cracknell","path":"/people/dean-cracknell","organisation":{"id":"69d0722b731401e65f0112c4","name":"Doing Co"},"linkedin":null,"photo":{"id":"image_doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml","url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1780627024/doing-collective/person/dean-cracknell_photo__Dean_Cracknell_9_Cropped_uxmeml.jpg","url2x":null,"type":"image/jpeg"}}]},{"id":"69b1ef9a5e7c6517d421366f","name":"Shaping the Mandurah Community","path":"/posts/shaping-the-mandurah-community","slug":"shaping-the-mandurah-community","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"","text":""},"content":{"text":"Shape Mandurah was formed in November 2016. Our local council tendered out for ideas for more events in Mandurah, and instead of just one-off events, it was decided that a community group needed to be formed to encourage community participation at a grass-roots level.\n\nShape Mandurah’s vision? For locals to be proud of Mandurah and #OWNIT.\n\nOur mission statement? Activating spaces to bring life to Mandurah encouraging locals to #ownit and create a #cultureshift. We like to think of it as ‘SHAPE CULTURE!”\n\nShape Mandurah aims to CONNECT through hosting regular activities and events, ENGAGE by listening and community participation and SUSTAIN in educating about place making, activation, marketing and design. Shape Mandurah is all about hosting events and projects to make Mandurah awesome, and encouraging other individuals and groups to do the same.\n\nOur vision includes pop-up galleries, community gardens, art installations and beyond… we want to activate your imagination and explore the possibilities. Finally, and most importantly we would love to see the community shape Mandurah as a hub of positive activation and creativity. We are here to build resources and bring people together. Ultimately it is up to the residents, business tenants and the rest of the community to show us what Mandurah should be.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1ee445e7c6517d4213663\" />\n\nWe manage monthly food truck festivals. This has been hugely successful in not only activating an otherwise dead carpark space, but also helping to encourage residents to get out and about on a Tuesday night, which is normally very quiet for Mandurah. We try to keep the event local with as many local vendors as possible. Weare able tomake a profit, which allows the group to put these funds back into other projects.\n\nWe created an art walk, where community members were able to submit ideas of art installations they wanted to create in the city centre. Winners received a cash prize to create their artwork and then it was showcased over a weekend with a map, allowing residents and visitors to follow the art trail and view the different pieces, and vote for a winner. We hosted “Good nights” week night pop-up music gigs in an underutilised commercial space.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1ee795e7c6517d4213666\" />\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1ef575e7c6517d4213669\" />\n\nShape Mandurah loves Mandurah and our community. We are excited to be a part of a culture shift to encourage Mandurah residents to “do” for our community!\n\nFind out more about Shape Mandurah at:\n\n[www.facebook.com/shapemandurah](https://www.facebook.com/shapemandurah)\n\nhttps://www.instagram.com/shapemandurah\n\nOr email us at [info@shapemandurah.com.au](mailto:info@shapemandurah.com.au)\n\nWe’d love to help share the story of your Town Team. Contact us at hello@townteammovement.com"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"Shape Mandurah was formed in November 2016. Our local council tendered out for ideas for more events in Mandurah, and instead of just one-off events, it was decided that a community group needed to be formed to encourage community participation at a grass-roots level.\nShape Mandurah’s vision? For locals to be proud of Mandurah and #OWNIT.\nOur mission statement? Activating spaces to bring life to Mandurah encouraging locals to #ownit and create a #cultureshift. We like to think of it as ‘SHAPE CULTURE!”\nShape Mandurah aims to CONNECT through hosting regular activities and events, ENGAGE by listening and community participation and SUSTAIN in educating about place making, activation, marketing and design. Shape Mandurah is all about hosting events and projects to make Mandurah awesome, and encouraging other individuals and groups to do the same.\nOur vision includes pop-up galleries, community gardens, art installations and beyond… we want to activate your imagination and explore the possibilities. Finally, and most importantly we would love to see the community shape Mandurah as a hub of positive activation and creativity. We are here to build resources and bring people together. Ultimately it is up to the residents, business tenants and the rest of the community to show us what Mandurah should be.\n\n\nWe manage monthly food truck festivals. This has been hugely successful in not only activating an otherwise dead carpark space, but also helping to encourage residents to get out and about on a Tuesday night, which is normally very quiet for Mandurah. We try to keep the event local with as many local vendors as possible. Weare able tomake a profit, which allows the group to put these funds back into other projects.\nWe created an art walk, where community members were able to submit ideas of art installations they wanted to create in the city centre. Winners received a cash prize to create their artwork and then it was showcased over a weekend with a map, allowing residents and visitors to follow the art trail and view the different pieces, and vote for a winner. We hosted “Good nights” week night pop-up music gigs in an underutilised commercial space.\n\n\n\n\n\nShape Mandurah loves Mandurah and our community. We are excited to be a part of a culture shift to encourage Mandurah residents to “do” for our community!\nFind out more about Shape Mandurah at:\nwww.facebook.com/shapemandurah\nhttps://www.instagram.com/shapemandurah\nOr email us at info@shapemandurah.com.au\nWe’d love to help share the story of your Town Team. Contact us at hello@townteammovement.com\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1773268873/doing-collective/banner/mandurah-banner_image__MANDURAH_ukbw2w.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1773268873/doing-collective/banner/mandurah-banner_image__MANDURAH_ukbw2w.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1773268873/doing-collective/banner/mandurah-banner_image__MANDURAH_ukbw2w.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1773268873/doing-collective/banner/mandurah-banner_image__MANDURAH_ukbw2w.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1773268873/doing-collective/banner/mandurah-banner_image__MANDURAH_ukbw2w.webp"}}}},"type":{"id":"69f82d67dd6cda552a6bed84","name":"News","slug":"news","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2018-04-12T00:00:00.00","authors":[]},{"id":"69b1f3ac5e7c6517d4213685","name":"Making Victoria Park More Awesome","path":"/posts/making-victoria-park-more-awesome","slug":"making-victoria-park-more-awesome","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"With a mission to make their Town ‘Vic Parkly awesome’ the Vic Park Collective has been working to make their home an exciting place that embraces and capitalises on the things that make it unique.\n","text":"**With a mission to make their Town ‘Vic Parkly awesome’ the Vic Park Collective has been working to make their home an exciting place that embraces and capitalises on the things that make it unique.**"},"content":{"text":"In 2013, following a Town forum on community engagement, a group of local community people formed the Vic Park Collective. “It was about business people and those from local small businesses, along with the community, coming together and saying ‘what would we like to see happening in Vic Park’,” said founding member of the Collective Flavia Pardini. “Not that Vic Park isn’t a great suburb, there were just some things that we felt could be done and were not happening”. The hope of the initial Committee was to make Vic Park a place that nobody had to leave, as everything they needed day-today would be available locally for them. They sought to help build a unique community that all sorts of people love feeling part of, and have lots of opportunities to participate in.\n\nCollective Chairperson Kat Wray said “We reviewed our strategy, which allowed us to evaluate whether we were delivering what was intended, and to clarify whether we still wanted to achieve the same goals.\n\n“The Committee only retains one founding member, but really the overall aims of the original Strategy were still important to us. But the review was a good opportunity to refocus, and shift some of our efforts to ensure we are achieving all of our goals.”\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1f2955e7c6517d4213676\" />\n\n## **The new Plan defines four key pillars: Creative collaboration; Community connectivity; Inclusivity; Sustainability.**\n\n“We’d ended up running a lot of events, and all of the other things we wanted to achieve were taking a back seat. So now we’ve rebalanced our approach so that we still get to deliver the events, which we all enjoy doing, but we’re also ensuring our events tick boxes in our other areas of focus. Plus we’re devoting time to working on other strategic activities we believe will benefit our community.” Said Ms Wray.\n\nBringing together residents, businesses, community groups and the Council to contribute to encouraging a thriving cultural scene is a core element of the strategy, as the Collective recognises the contributions so many people and groups make to their community and wants to see as much achieved as possible from all of that effort.\n\nBeing social connectors who bring people out of their homes and into public spaces to participate in shared experiences, is important in itself and also gives the Collective the opportunity to be a sounding board and advocate to the Town about local issues and initiatives.\n\n**Environmental sustainability** is also an important part of what the Collective does.\n\nBy incorporating sustainable practices into everything they do, they are educating their community on simple ways they can take care of their homes, families and the planet.\n\n“The various Committees have achieved some great things over the life of the Collective, which we’re all really proud of.” Ms Wray said.\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1f3185e7c6517d4213679\" />\n\nThe Collective has been able to make a very tangible and long lasting contribution to the fabric of their Town’s cultural scene through art, murals and parklets. A series of murals were developed through workshops with artists and local art enthusiasts, and these then became the stops on a self-guided arts trail made available in print and on the Collective website.\n\nWork on streetscapes, place making and bringing people out into the street to engage with their community included taking on the tender to develop the Town of Victoria Park’s Urban Forest Strategy and consulting on and building Parklets to encourage casual public use of spaces on Albany Hwy.Improving the public domain is an area the Committee is currently focusing on.\n\nThe Collective has always taken an active lead in coordinating events for their fellow residents, with the aim of contributing to the evolution of their culturally vibrant and interesting Town. They focus on socially responsible and constructive events, which provide opportunities for people to connect and socialise while doing something for their community, learning something new, and of course having fun. Events take a range of forms and sizes and many involve collaborating with other local groups, to bring together complimentary skillsets and varied audiences.\n\n“Collective Conversations, described as like TED Talks with drinks, are free pop up talks at local venues (usually pubs) where people can hear specialists in a field speak on their topic of interest. Talks have included a Meet the Candidates during local elections, Trees in da Hood and Plastic Free July Challenge.\n\n\n<ImageAsset id=\"69b1f3505e7c6517d421367c\" />\n\n**We’d love to help share the story of your Town Team.**\n\n**Contact us at [hello@townteammovement.com](mailto:hello@townteammovement.com)**\n\n\n"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"With a mission to make their Town ‘Vic Parkly awesome’ the Vic Park Collective has been working to make their home an exciting place that embraces and capitalises on the things that make it unique.\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1773269914/doing-collective/banner/vicparksummerstreetparty-banner_image__vicparksummerstreetparty_katwray_197-768x512_baocel.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1773269914/doing-collective/banner/vicparksummerstreetparty-banner_image__vicparksummerstreetparty_katwray_197-768x512_baocel.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1773269914/doing-collective/banner/vicparksummerstreetparty-banner_image__vicparksummerstreetparty_katwray_197-768x512_baocel.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1773269914/doing-collective/banner/vicparksummerstreetparty-banner_image__vicparksummerstreetparty_katwray_197-768x512_baocel.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1773269914/doing-collective/banner/vicparksummerstreetparty-banner_image__vicparksummerstreetparty_katwray_197-768x512_baocel.webp"}}}},"type":{"id":"69f82d67dd6cda552a6bed84","name":"News","slug":"news","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2018-03-09T00:00:00.00","authors":[]},{"id":"69b1f4b15e7c6517d421368c","name":"Welcome Town Team Movement!","path":"/posts/welcome-town-team-movement","slug":"welcome-town-team-movement","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"","text":""},"content":{"text":"We help town teams to organise, engage and empower their local communities. Town teams are groups of businesses and residents working proactively with their local government create active, resilient and successful places.\n\n**We Aim To**\n\n1. Enable and promote community building, community engagement and place making\n2. Support existing Town Teams by:\n   1. Helping them to organise, engage and empower their communities\n   2. Sharing knowledge, resources and best practices\n   3. Hosting networking and learning events\n   4. Assisting them to undertake projects and initiatives\n   5. Assisting them to be financially sustainable\n   6. Promoting events and activities of Town Teams\n3. Establish new Town Teams\n4. Advocate on behalf of Town Teams and the broader movement for stronger communities and better places\n\nIf you are interested in town teams, or would like to know more you can contact us via:\n\n**Email**       [hello@townteammovement.com](mailto:hello@townteammovement.com)\n\n**Facebook**   https://www.facebook.com/townteammovement\n\n**Twitter**     @TownTeamMovers\n\n**Instagram**  https://www.instagram.com/townteammovement/"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"We help town teams to organise, engage and empower their local communities. Town teams are groups of businesses and residents working proactively with their local government create active, resilient and successful places.\nWe Aim To\n\nEnable and promote community building, community engagement and place making\nSupport existing Town Teams by:\nHelping them to organise, engage and empower their communities\nSharing knowledge, resources and best practices\nHosting networking and learning events\nAssisting them to undertake projects and initiatives\nAssisting them to be financially sustainable\nPromoting events and activities of Town Teams\n\n\nEstablish new Town Teams\nAdvocate on behalf of Town Teams and the broader movement for stronger communities and better places\n\nIf you are interested in town teams, or would like to know more you can contact us via:\nEmail       hello@townteammovement.com\nFacebook   https://www.facebook.com/townteammovement\nTwitter     @TownTeamMovers\nInstagram  https://www.instagram.com/townteammovement/\n"},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1777439108/doing-collective/banner/welcome-town-team-movement_thumbnail__Welcome-town-team-movement_1600x1000_o8zr5l.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1777439108/doing-collective/banner/welcome-town-team-movement_thumbnail__Welcome-town-team-movement_1600x1000_o8zr5l.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1777439108/doing-collective/banner/welcome-town-team-movement_thumbnail__Welcome-town-team-movement_1600x1000_o8zr5l.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1777439108/doing-collective/banner/welcome-town-team-movement_thumbnail__Welcome-town-team-movement_1600x1000_o8zr5l.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1777439108/doing-collective/banner/welcome-town-team-movement_thumbnail__Welcome-town-team-movement_1600x1000_o8zr5l.webp"}}}},"type":{"id":"69f82d67dd6cda552a6bed84","name":"News","slug":"news","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2017-11-16T00:00:00.00","authors":[]},{"id":"69b1f5645e7c6517d4213695","name":"Having a Go","path":"/posts/having-a-go","slug":"having-a-go","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"\n","text":"<ImageAsset id=\"69b1f5585e7c6517d4213692\" />\n"},"content":{"text":"Town teams get stuck in and have a go. They work proactively with their local government and local businesses and residents to get cool stuff happening. Exactly what is up to the team. Some examples include: festivals, markets, placemaking projects, street art and improving public spaces. This quote sums up our thoughts pretty well"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"69f82d67dd6cda552a6bed84","name":"News","slug":"news","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2017-11-16T00:00:00.00","authors":[]},{"id":"69b1f61f5e7c6517d421369e","name":"Real Communities","path":"/posts/real-communities","slug":"real-communities","__typename":"Platform_Post","_schema":{"label":"Post","pluralLabel":"Posts"},"intro":{"plain":"\n","text":"<ImageAsset id=\"69b1f6145e7c6517d421369b\" />\n"},"content":{"text":"Have we got better at community-building in the last 50 years? Or worse? If we are being honest, our communities probably need a bit of help.\n\nWe can create stronger communities and better places by getting organised, encouraging businesses and residents to work together and undertaking small (and big) actions to improve our places.\n\nWe established the Town Team Movement to help you start a successful town team.\n\n**What is a town team?**\n\nTown teams are a model where businesses, residents, community groups and local governments work together to create stronger communities and better places. Town teams provide creative and safe environments and help to empower their communities.\n\nThe teams are:\n\n- Independent\n- Not politically-aligned\n- A positive voice and influence in their community\n\nEach team has slightly different priorities and focuses, but all share these principles.\n\nLet us know if you would like to know more!"},"title":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"plain":"\n"},"image":null},"type":{"id":"69f82d67dd6cda552a6bed84","name":"News","slug":"news","__typename":"Platform_PostType"},"published":"2017-11-17T00:00:00.00","authors":[]}]}}}