Placemaking Framework
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Vibrant and inclusive local places through placemaking - a framework September 2019 It’s Your Place - Boroondara Placemaking Framework Contents Chapter One - Introduction 4 Placemaking – It’s your place! 6 Placemaking in action 7 Strategic context 8 Purpose of the framework 9 Working in partnership with our community 9 Placemaking: guiding principles 10 The benefits of placemaking 12 Chapter Two - Our Approach 14 Placemaking - our approach 16 Step 1 - Understanding Place 18 Step 2 - Imagining Place 19 Step 3 - Prioritising Ideas 20 Step 4 - Planning Place 21 Step 5 - Transforming Place 22 Ongoing processes - responsive placemaking 23 Ongoing processes - evaluating place 24 Chapter Three - Inspiring Possibilities 26 Some inspiring possibilities 28 Some inspiring elements 30 Placemaking case studies 36 3 Photo: Mural at Auburn Station Cover Photo: Mural in Madrid, Spain Chapter One Introduction 4 Photo: Mural in Burwood Village Placemaking: It’s your place! Placemaking is a holistic, hands-on approach to creating people- centred places for the health and wellbeing of our community. It involves the re-imagining and activation of spaces to create vibrant, memorable and social places and precincts where people feel a sense of belonging. Photo: Boroondara Placemaking Event Placemaking Partners Placemaking Process Placemaking Goals Placemaking involves the Placemaking is a long-term, future- The goals of placemaking are community, stakeholders and oriented process that recognises to strengthen the connection Council working together to the uniqueness of a place. It between people and places, and plan, design, develop, activate, involves listening to the people who to improve social, economic and manage and evaluate spaces, live, work, visit, study and play in a environmental sustainability neighbourhoods and precincts. place to discover their needs and and the community’s health and aspirations. It uses short and long- wellbeing. term interventions to build on the place’s existing qualities. 6 It’s Your Place - Boroondara Placemaking Framework Placemaking in action Placemaking can improve the health and wellbeing of our community by transforming small or large spaces, such as car parks, laneways, local parks, shopping strips, neighbourhoods or entire precincts. Photo: www.inhabitat.com Photo: worldwatercouncil.org Photo: laneway in Camberwell Photo: www.downtowndetroitparks.com/parks/Campus-Martius Photo: www.walyou.com It is characterised by an action learning process that adapts and unfolds over time to support sustainable changes to physical, economic and social environments and to protect the natural environment. 7 Strategic context The Boroondara Community Plan It includes Council’s Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan, which ensures our community’s 2017-2027 sets out the 10-year health and wellbeing is at the centre of everything vision for our future based on the we do. Our placemaking approach will play an important role in working with our community values, aspirations and priorities and stakeholders to deliver on the overall vision our community told us were and key strategic objectives of the Boroondara Community Plan. important to them. “A vibrant and inclusive city, meeting the needs and aspirations of its community.” Community Parks & The Services Green Spaces Environment & Facilities Community services & Inviting and well- Our natural facilities are high quality, utilised community environment is healthy inclusive and meet a parks and green and sustainable for variety of needs now and spaces. future generations. in the future. Neighbourhood Getting Around Local Shops Civic Leadership Character & Boroondara & Businesses & Governance Heritage Travel options that Protect the heritage are connected, safe, A vibrant local economy Ethical, financial and and respect the accessible, and shops that are socially responsible character of the City. environmentally accessible, attractive, decision making. sustainable and well- and a centre of designed. community life. 8 It’s Your Place - Boroondara Placemaking Framework Purpose of the framework The purpose of the Placemaking It will outline our placemaking approach, the guiding principles, benefits and key steps involved in creating Framework is to outline vibrant and inclusive local places in Boroondara. It Council’s new approach to the also includes examples of placemaking initiatives from around the world to inspire and generate ideas way we understand, design and for our places. deliver our public spaces for the wellbeing of our community. Photo: www.hellocity.com.au Photo: www. landezine.com Photo: www.pps.org Photo: Sam Noonan 9 Working in partnership with our community Creating vibrant and inclusive places starts with people. “Placemaking inspires people to collectively re-imagine and reinvent spaces to become places at the heart of every community”.1 The Community Key Stakeholders Council The community provides valuable Stakeholders will vary across Council will work collaboratively insights and an informed view placemaking projects and could with our community and key of how a place functions. include traders, property owners stakeholders to help build Importantly, the community and representatives of community community capacity to contribute brings an understanding of what organisations. Together, they will to the creation of vibrant and people value from a variety of contribute to an understanding of inclusive local places to improve perspectives as the community is place and the development of a our community’s health not homogeneous. shared vision for local places. and wellbeing. Photo: Canterbury-Bankstown Future Street www. iotaustralia.org.au 1. Project for Pubic Spaces www. pps.org 10 It’s Your Place - Boroondara Placemaking Framework Placemaking: guiding principles The principles below provide guidance on the creation of vibrant and inclusive local places for people. 2.2. Collaborate with thethe 1. Listen to 3.3. Create Create a aCulture culture of 1. Listen to the Community communityCommunity andand Keykey the community ofPossibilities possibilities stakeholdersStakeholders The community that regularly We will work in partnership We will inspire possibilities through uses the space can provide with the community and key applying best practice approaches valuable insights into how the stakeholders to develop a shared to placemaking in Boroondara. We area functions, an understanding vision for the place. will review Council processes to of critical issues and can identify become more flexible and agile to what is meaningful to people. realise ideas. 4. Celebrate4. Celebrate what what makes a 5. Be future 6. Start 5. Be Future Focused 6. Start by Doing makesplace a place unique unique focused by doing We will celebrate the unique We will design places for the We will trial new ideas to explore identity of the place by future, which are safe, technology- potential opportunities that understanding the community’s enabled and environmentally enhance and revitalise the place. shared stories, local memories, sustainable, to enhance people’s We acknowledge that not all trials history and connection to a place, experience of the place. This will will succeed and we will apply an as well as the place’s heritage, include meeting our obligations action learning model to inform character and strengths. under Australia’s Strategy for future actions. Protecting Crowded Places from Terrorism. 11 The benefits of placemaking A place-led approach to creating vibrant and inclusive local places works best when done in partnership with our community and key stakeholders. The key benefits of placemaking are outlined below. Empowered and Stimulating Enhanced social engaged communities economic growth interaction Communities that are involved Vibrant and inclusive local places Placemaking can improve health in the placemaking process are will attract people to live, work, and wellbeing by encouraging more likely to feel a sense of visit, study, shop and play. This people to interact with each other ownership and connection with will encourage local economic and their community in their local the local place and to play an sustainability. place and by participating in ongoing role in its future. activities. 12 It’s Your Place - Boroondara Placemaking Framework Working together, we can maximise the value of our public places for the long-term benefit of our community. Demonstrating what Turning ‘spaces’ Improved environmental is possible into ‘places’ sustainability Trial activities, events or Working with the community, Places can become more infrastructure that are new or physical spaces can be environmentally sustainable different enabling the community turned into ‘places’ where the through the placemaking process to see what is possible and community can create memories by adding greenery, improving encouraging them to think and experiences. walkability or providing shelter to differently about how the place protect people from the elements. could be used. 13 Chapter Two Our Approach 14 15 Placemaking: our approach The following steps outline the process we will follow when we work with our community to improve their health and wellbeing by designing vibrant and inclusive local places in Boroondara. Ongoing Processes Responsive Placemaking Throughout the process, we will test and refine ideas by implementing activations, events and installations involving our community. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Understanding Imagining Prioritising Place Place Ideas We will engage with our