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2018 Conference: (Re)Connecting Communities 1 Dr David Galloway

David works with his clients to create resilient and sustainable projects. He has experience in sustainable design, regional and urban planning, environmental engineering, community development, issues management, carbon projects, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and natural resource management.

David has over 30 years experience in Australia and internationally working for government, industry, business, community groups, NGO’s and individuals. He has worked in both regional and remote locations, and urban contexts.

David brings exceptionally high levels of design thinking and project management skills to projects. He works at the interfaces of planning and design, community and environment, and business and innovation. By combining good business acumen, quality science and a solid understanding of how to engage with the community he produces sustainable outcomes.

QUALIFICATIONS & PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Bachelor of Applied Science (Mechanical Engineering) WAIT, Australia, 1977

Bachelor of Science (Environmental Science) Murdoch University, Australia, 1979

Master of Arts (Sustainable Development) Murdoch University, Australia, 1997

Doctor of Philosophy (Designing and Sustainability) Curtin University, Australia 2014

Member of Engineers Australia; Certificate of Professional Engineering.

CONTACT

Email: [email protected] Web: www.ferart.com Mobile: +61 (0)429 900 197 Mail: Ferart Design PO Box 171 Leederville, AUSTRALIA 6903 PLACE FACILITATORS

2 The Town Team Movement WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US

In this new century characterised by TOPICS INCLUDE CLIMATES & CULTURES disruptive social, technological, economic • Place Making and political change: How do we help • Place Activation DIFFER ALL OVER THE communities to reconnect? • Place Leadership & Management • Organisational Cultural Shifts WORLD, BUT PEOPLE and facilitating ‘Yes’ Attitudes How do we inspire, encourage and • Capacity Building ARE THE SAME. THEY’LL empower citizens to start activating • Retail & Town Centre Management • Economic & Community Development GATHER IN PUBLIC IF and improving their public spaces to • Effective Public Engagement make their community more vibrant? • Prioritising People YOU GIVE THEM A GOOD • Town Team Discussions PLACE TO DO IT. How do we activate communities • Local & International Case Studies • Interactive Activities with low social capital? JAHN GEHL

2018 Conference: (Re)Connecting Communities 3 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

PART 1: THE PLACE PROGRAM PRESENTED BY HOLMES À COURT GALLERY @ NO. 10, 10 DOUGLAS ST, WEST

TIME TOPIC SPEAKER TIME TOPIC SPEAKER

Master of Ceremonies - Claire Stokes & Katie Stubley Matching Planning with 11:10am Valli Morphett, CEO, Co-Design Action 8:00am Registration - Tea & Coffee Provided Andy Sharp, Director Design & Place Strategy, 8:50am Welcome to Country Ingrid Cumming, Kart Koorn Wiern 11:30am Guerilla Governance City Renewal Authority, ACT Government Dale Alcock, ABN Group Presented by City Renewal Authority 9:05am Town Teams Introduction Jimmy Murphy, Chair, Town Team Movement Community and Creative 11:50am Marcus Westbury, Founder Renew Newcastle Outcomes 9:15am Opening Address John Carey, MLA, Member for Perth

Unleashing the Power of Peter Sharp, Social Entrepreneur, Liberators 9:20am John Carey, MLA, Member for Perth Human Connection International Pam Herron, former Chair, Beaufort Street Local Government Getting Len Kosova, CEO, Network 9:40am Town Team Panel out of the Way Anthony Vuleta, CEO, 12:10pm Discussion Joni Sercombe, former Chair, Vic Park Facilitating a Cultural Shift Collective in Governance Gilbert Rochecouste, Founder & Managing 10:00am Candice Di Prinzio, Chair, Shape Mandurah Presented by City of Partner, Village Well Stirling 12:40pm Lunch & Great Place Food Trucks: Bantastic Mi, Phat Pharoah, Locale - Town Teams: What do you Dr David Galloway, Ferart Activation Examples Kitchen 10:20am do when the boundaries Dr Gaye MacKenzie, Collective IQ 1:40pm disappear? Urban Future Lab & Leederville Connect

Kate O’Hara presenting Hawaiian’s Sunshine 10:40am Morning Tea Harvest Incubator Project PART 2: CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE PRESENTED BY 1:40pm - 2:40pm & 2:50pm - 3:50pm CHOOSE TWO BREAKOUT SESSIONS (ONE EACH HOUR + 10MIN BREAK) - PRE-BOOK ON YOUR TTM APP VENUE 5: JANE’S WALK VENUE 1: TOWN TEAMS VENUE 2: THE FUTURE OF VENUE 3: PUTTING PLACE VENUE 4: THE ROLE OF LEEDERVILLE MOVING FORWARD TOWN CENTRES FIRST ACTIVATION AND THE ARTS PRESENTED BY SAFE ACTIVE STREETS , DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT

Our public environments are Topic 1: Starting a Town Team: In a future guided by increased increasingly being popularised by competition through online Recommended for participants How does government move from pop-ups, murals and food trucks. Are Join David & Nic on a guided purchasing and the remodelling of interested in starting a new gatekeeper to place enabler? we missing the point and generating walk through the Leederville shopping centres, what is the role of Town Team. a loss of authenticity? Town Centre and learn about the town centre? Recommended for participants the findings and impact a town Topic 2: Progressing Existing interested in learning more about Recommended for participants Recommended for participants team can have on its built and Town Teams: organisational place leadership, wanting to be involved in interested in being part of a social environment. Also, learn governance and administering more discussions regarding the Arts and discussion regarding the future more about starting your own Recommended for existing effective public engagement. how it can be better integrated activation and management of Town Jane’s Walk. Town Teams to discuss future within place strategies and creating Centres. needs. better public spaces.

Dr David Galloway, Ferart Dean Cracknell, CEO, Town Gilbert Rochecouste, Founder & Jimmy Murphy, Councillor, City of Callum Prior, and Deputy Chair, Leederville Team Movement Managing Partner, Village Well Vincent & Director, UpBeat Events Connect

Ben Kent, Inglewood on Marcus Westbury, Founder, Renew Joanne Taylor, CEO, Place Leaders Nic Temov, Founder Jane’s Valli Morphett, CEO, Co-Design Beaufort Newcastle Asia Pacific Walk Perth

Georgia Lawrence, Place David Doy, Place Manager, Town of Dan Bull, Mayor, Kate Parker, Element Manager, City of Vincent Victoria Park

Marc Drexel, Town Team Norion Ubechel, Oniracom Duane Cole, Managing Director Hillary Lambert, Portfolio Manager, Movement Audience Intelligence West Coast at Roberts Day Place Activation, Curtin University PRESENTED BY

PART 3: BRINGING IT HOME HOLMES À COURT GALLERY @ NO. 10, 10 DOUGLAS ST, WEST PERTH TIME TOPIC SPEAKER

4:00pm Valli’s Home Video Course Valli Morphett, CEO, Co-Design

Joanne Taylor, Place Leaders Asia Pacific

Town Team Movement David Snyder, Director Spaced Out 4:30pm Future Actions Placemakers

Dean Cracknell, CEO, Town Team Movement

4:45pm Networking Drinks Hosted by Daniel Stiripini, Crafted PART 4: DROP IT LIKE IT’S HOT!

5:00pm Networking Drinks

6:30pm After Party Soggybones NETWORKING DRINKS PRESENTED BY TOWN TEAMS LONG TABLE LUNCH PRESENTED BY

SAT, 15 SEPT FROM 11AM - 3PM HOLMES À COURT GALLERY @ NO. 10, 10 DOUGLAS ST, WEST PERTH TIME TOPIC SPEAKER

Introductions and Grant Heiko Plange, Chuffed Ambassador 11:00am Funding Workshops Lotterywest

Jimmy Murphy, Town Team Convenor 12:00pm Town Team Awards Dean Cracknell, CEO, Town Team Movement

12:45pm Lunch & Drinks SPEAKERS

MARCUS WESTBURY GILBERT ROCHECOUSTE INGRID CUMMING Founder, Renew Newcastle Founder & Managing Director, Founder & CEO, Kart Koort Wiern

Marcus Westbury was the founder of the multi award Village Well Ingrid is a Whadjuk Balardong Nyungar custodian and winning Renew Newcastle and Renew Australia projects traditional owner. An Anthropology graduate from Murdoch Gilbert is recognised locally and Internationally as a leading that have helped launch more than three hundred creative University, Ingrid has also completed studies with Melbourne voice in creating great places for people. He has worked with and community projects in empty and abandoned buildings Business school, presented at the UN women leaders forum in over 1000 cities, towns, main streets, universities, property and reopened more than a hundred vacant shops and offices Israel 2013, Finalist in Belmont Small Business Awards 2013 developers, government organisations and communities over across Australia. and Nominee for Telstra Women in Business Awards 2014. the past 25 years; crafting a powerful integrated approach to Marcus’s background is as an urbanist, writer, media maker creating vibrant, resilient and loved places that are socially, Despite her dreams of being the first Aboriginal woman and festival director and the founder and manager of multiple culturally and commercially successful. Prime Minister, her current role is CEO and Founder of arts events, community projects and social enterprises across Kart Koort Wiern, or Head Heart and Spirit. The company Gilbert is a skilled facilitator and agent provocateur of Australia. He is the author of the crowd funded Amazon best ethos is ‘it takes knowledge, compassion and culture to create positive change and inspiration: his bold ideas and projects selling book Creating Cities (Niche Press, 2015) and has been reconciliation and change’. helping make Melbourne the most liveable. He sees the writer and presenter of the ABC TV (Australia) series the potential of Placemaking to inspire a deep cultural Bespoke and Not Quite Art. and social environmental awareness and stewardship to Marcus is currently employed as the founding CEO of make a dierence both locally and globally. Gilbert co- Contemporary Arts Precincts Ltd - a not for profit company founded the EPOCH Foundation promoting the adoption that is leading the redevelopment of the Collingwood of business ethics and has served on the Boards Arts Precinct in Melbourne and is an Honorary Fellow of of Ross House, Donkey Wheel House Trust and Hub Australia. 8 Monash The Town University. Team Movement VALLI MORPHETT LEN KOSOVA ANTHONY VULETA CEO, Co-Design CEO, City of Vincent CEO, Town of Victoria Park

Valli is an energetic optimist, who believes that great places Len joined the City of Vincent as its Chief Executive Officer Anthony Vuleta was born and raised in Perth and began his are founded on true collaboration. She is passionate about in August 2014. He is a Town Planner and Graduate of the career in a private civil design consultancy before moving innovative placemaking, creative engagement and collaborative Australian Institute of Company Directors, and began working into local government. He has worked at the Cities of Swan city making and has spent over a decade driving systemic in planning in 1995 after graduating from Curtin University. (Shire), Belmont and Subiaco prior to starting with the place-based change. As a planner, Len has worked across Western Australia and Town of Victoria Park as Manager of Technical Services in before joining Vincent held Director positions at the Shire of 2002. In 2008 he became Director of Renew Life where he Valli has extensive experience in delivering purposeful Mundaring and the Cities of Gosnells and Wanneroo over a oversaw the Town’s infrastructure program. He then Acted placemaking strategies, locally owned activation programs 13 year period, spanning the portfolios of planning, building, as the CEO for 15 months before permanent appointment and meaningful place outcomes for diverse sectors including health, land development, environmental management, urban to CEO in May 2015. He is a past President for the Institute Government, urban renewal, greenfield development, design- renewal and economic development. Len is passionate about of Public Works Engineering Australasia (IPWEA) WA, construct alliances and the Universities. institutional innovation, rocking the boat, leading by example, a past Executive Director of IPWEA and a trustee of the and asking “what if?”. Public Works Foundation and has been involved with the Valli has built industry capacity through Victoria and South institute since 1999. Australia through delivery of placemaking training and regular speaking engagements. In 2017 she delivered a Kitchen Table Anthony sits on the Local Government Advisory Board and Conference for Open State Festival of Democracy and has Burwood Park Board, is a member of Chief Officers Group convened the Place Invaders placemaking peer network in SA for Australasia and the Local Government Professionals since 2015. She is a member of Project for Public Spaces’ Global (LGPro). Anthony has a key focus on developing strategies to Place Leadership Council, is a founding member of Engage 2 help improve and reshape the business of local government Act engagement collective and a past South Australian IAP2 to meet the current and future community needs. Coordinator. 2018 Conference: (Re)Connecting Communities 9 JOHN CAREY Dr GAYE MACKENZIE KATE O’HARA MLA, Member for Perth Collective IQ & Leederville Urban Director and Chief Brand Officer,

John Carey has lived in Brisbane Street in Perth for more than Futures Lab Hawaiian Pty Ltd a decade and loves the great lifestyle that the city offers. But A sociological background and experience across a diverse Kate has a wealth of marketing and PR experience, beginning he also personally knows the real challenges it brings living range of organisations and areas has led Gaye to be passionate at Marketforce in Perth in the 1980’s, after graduating with a in the city. As the Mayor of Vincent, which includes parts of about inspiring people to see other’s perspectives, to appreciate B.Comm from UWA. West Perth, East Perth and Perth, he been working hard to the complexity of problems that involve humans and to have make these precincts more vibrant and safer for residents. conversations that enable change. Gaye brings these ideals to She is an astute businesswoman, networker and a mentor to many in Perth marketing circles. Before joining Hawaiian, Tired of a lack of positive action on Beaufort Street, John life in a variety of contexts and settings through her work with Kate lived and worked in Singapore, returning to Perth founded the Beaufort Street Network, a local business and Collective IQ. to take up advertising and PR management roles at The resident organisation aimed at revitalizing the precinct. The Shorter Group and The Capital Group. Network has driven the transformation of the Beaufort Street precinct, through projects which have helped built a sense In her spare time, Kate is the Chair of The 500 Club, current of a real community. John also co-founded the Beaufort board member and former Chair of the Fashion Council Street Festival, credited with putting the café and retail on WA, Director of the WACA Foundation, member of the the tourist map. Forrest Foundation selection committee and graduate of the AICD Company Director’s course.

10 The Town Team Movement ANDY SHARP PETER SHARP HILLARY LAMBERT Director Design and Place Strategy, Social Entrepreneur; Founder, Portfolio Manager, Place Activation, City Renewal Authority, CBR Liberators International Curtin University

Andy is a visionary leader who inspires, builds high Perth born ex-accountant turned social entrepreneur has Hillary has led the growth of Curtin’s award-winning performing teams, and manages trans-disciplinary portfolios a passion for connecting humanity on a deeper level via Place Activation program for the past six years, marking a across multiple business units. He has a proven track record his interactive ashmobs that blur the lines between passive transformation of the place experience on campus. Hillary and natural ability to transform teams into focussed, creative citizens and active participants. has 20 years’ experience as a communications, partnerships and integrated businesses aligned to building great urban and events specialist for the State’s leading cultural institutions, places. He is an inspirational leader focussed on creating cities You might remember the time he started a dance party on community organisations and as a policy advisor to the Minister for the future. a Perth Train after work, or a spontaneous sing-along with for Culture and the Arts and Planning during the rebirth of the strangers on a Monday morning. His videos of public space Perth Cultural Centre and Forrest Place. For example, at Curtin University Andy led the activations have received over 100 million views world-wide redevelopment of the campus in to a major urban centre and many have sparked positive social movements in other known as Greater Curtin. His skills in delivering major countries to follow suit. His inspiring and practical approach projects will see the university boom into a knowledge is something that any small team can facilitate in their own city connected to Perth by rapid light rail with an array of city to enhance the quality of human connection in public. sustainable urban development within its centre.

In 2007 Andy was recognised as a pre-eminent business leader by being awarded the WA Business News 40 Under 40 top business leader under 40 years of age. This achievement demonstrates Andrew’s ability to pursue collaborative design in a competitive market environment. 2018 Conference: (Re)Connecting Communities 11 JOANNE TAYLOR DALE ALCOCK DAN BULL CEO, Place Leaders Asia Pacific Managing Director, ABN Group Mayor, City of Bayswater

Joanne is the CEO of Place Leaders Asia Pacific, a not- Dale Alcock is a homegrown success story, from bricklayer to Elected to Mayor of the City of Bayswater in October for-profit member organisation for the promotion of place Australia’s leading home builder. His reputation has become 2017, Dan is proud to be leading a council going through leadership across the Asia Pacific. synonymous with quality, excellence and distinction. evolutionary change and a district that is flourishing. With a firm belief in the importance of excellent amenity in town A driving force behind her work is a deep interest in applying Under the leadership of Dale as Managing Director, the ABN centres, as well as protecting ecologically sensitive areas, Dan creative strategy to emergent governance models and Group operates in Western Australia and Victoria and has built is also committed to creating the opportunity for people to collaborative management systems. almost 70,000 homes across the two states. It is comprised of work, live and play in this vibrant, inner city location. 20 companies with more than 1400 employees, 150 apprentices She draws inspiration from her architecture and design and 1500 contractors. A strong focus on community satisfaction means Dan is experience to constantly explore how these new models can working closely with residents and developers to ensure be used to drive positive change in society in order to add Dale remains an avid believer in the social responsibility of the district is able to embrace the opportunities created value to people, place, design and communities. his companies. As an industry advocate, Dale provides valuable by changes in land use and capitalise on the positive support to industry training programs and promotes career contribution Metronet will make to the area. Dan has a opportunities within the building industry. background in law and music. He lives in Bayswater with his wife and two children. Since establishing his own dedicated apprenticeship training program in 2004, the ABN Group continues to manage Australia’s largest private training group in the industry, with more than 1000 apprentices graduated. Through his Alcock Family Foundation, Dale has also donated more than $8.4 million over the last 10 years to worthy causes including medical research, humanitarian relief work and the environment. 12 The Town Team Movement PAM HERRON Dr DAVID GALLOWAY JONI SERCOMBE Former Chair, Beaufort Street Deputy Chair, Leederville Connect, Former Chair, Vic Park Collective Ferart & Leederville Urban Futures Network & Board Member, Town Team Joni Sercombe has 20 years’ experience delivering not- Movement Lab for-profit services, mentoring programs, community arts projects and place-based initiatives in WA and overseas. David has over 30 years experience in Australia and Memorable roles include working in alternative education Pam Herron has been involved in the local Beaufort Street overseas working for government, industry, business, and housing estates in London, rolling out indigenous community for many years, is ex Chair of the Beaufort Street community groups, NGO’s and individuals. He has degrees traineeship programs in remote WA, lobbying government Network and has sat on several City of Vincent advisory groups in engineering, environmental science, sustainability and a via the Youth Affairs Council of WA, working in the grants for both businesses and residents. Doctorate in design and sustainability. area at Lotterywest, helping run street festivals and other Pam has sat on the Beaufort Street Festival committee and grassroots projects. His current work is strongly focused in design, working at Beaufort Street Artisan Market committee over the past 6 years the front-end of large projects to make them go beyond Her experience growing and leading place-based groups but has now resigned these positions to follow her passion being purely sustainable and to become fully regenerative such as the Vic Park Collective utilised her community for animal welfare and to sit on the Town Team Movement and productive. development skills, interest in the sharing economy and Executive Committee. digital tools for community organizing. In her current His experience is in project design and management, role at MercyCare, she is working with The Australian regional and urban planning, community liaison, ecological Centre for Social Innovation to explore what a 21st century engineering, vision creation, issues management, natural Neighbourhood Centre model might look like. resource management, and policy.

2018 Conference: (Re)Connecting Communities 13 CANDICE DiPRINZIO DEAN CRACKNELL DAVID DOY Chair, Shape Mandurah CEO, Town Team Movement Place Manager, Town of Victoria Park

Candice is passionate about people. Her role as Chairperson Dean is a Co-Founder, CEO and ‘Chief Doer’ at Town Team David is one of a number of urban professionals leading of Shape Mandurah has allowed her to branch out of her Movement. He previously worked in local government for 12 major change to the way Local Government operates - from day-to-day career in Real Estate and start to connect with her years as a strategic urban planner and is interested in: siloed service delivery to an integrated focus on place and a fellow community members at a grass roots level. commitment to delivering good urban outcomes for people. • Place leadership She loves to see and encourage her fellow neighbours to Following a 5 year career as a P.E. teacher he switched to work together in collaboration and positivity to promote • Stewardship urban planning where he worked in private industry and growth and change both socially and economically. She is played a key role in an emerging place group known as the • Governments playing the role of facilitators, not just happy to get her hands dirty and go all-in to achieve goals Beaufort Street Network. He moved across to the City of service providers and outcomes. Vincent in 2014 creating the national award winning Place • Empowering communities to create positive change Management Program, worked with and helped establish Candice believes by building others up and breaking down Town Teams in Leederville, Mount Hawthorn, Northbridge boundaries, great things can happen. • Creating better places and North Perth as well as establishing the Beaufort Street Network. He is inspired by John F. Kennedy’s quote: He made the shift across the river to the Town of Victoria “I always thought someone should to do something, until, one Park in the newly created role of Manager Place Planning. day I realised I was Someone”. The Town of Victoria Park and it’s team of Place Leaders will be industry leading in their focus on and commitment in delivering great place outcomes.

14 The Town Team Movement DUANE COLE ROBYN CREAGH GEORGIA LAWRENCE Managing Director, West Coast at Place Agency, Curtin University Place Manager, City of Vincent

Roberts Day Place Agency is a national platform inspiring postgrad students Georgia leads the City of Vincent’s award winning Place to up-skill in some of the practical requirements of placemaking Management program. This program has been responsible As an urban planner with over 30 years’ experience, Duane projects. University teams across the country are partnering for supporting and enabling Town Teams to take a lead role has worked predominantly in the land development industry with local community, government and professional groups to in the development and growth of Vincent’s town centres. providing innovative solutions and a pragmatic approach articulate and support richer understandings of placemaking to project delivery. His practice focuses on collaborative processes. Georgia has a broad range of urban design experience, engagement and creative leadership to develop bespoke and spanning the disciplines of urban design, planning, transport, tactical project strategies that unlock complex projects to We will be sharing our findings openly through a developing landscape architecture and stakeholder engagement. Georgia deliver commercial outcomes. web presence www.placeagency.org.au and through state- has experience working on complex, multifaceted projects based events. Please let us know if you are interested in sharing and has managed and worked with multidisciplinary teams As RobertsDay’s Perth Studio Leader from 2008-2017, Duane your experience, or in partnering with university students and facilitated key community and stakeholder workshops. guided the evolution of the local practice by improving through a local placemaking project. The program is supported This experience coupled with the collaborative environment the value of client service and deliverables through the by the Myer Foundation. in which she has worked has afforded her the opportunity introduction of place-making capability and evidenced based to address a broad range of complex place governance and metrics to its integrated urban design and town planning development-related issues. service offer. Now as Roberts Day’s Joint Managing Director (West Coast), Duane is responsible for leading an energetic team of creative problem solvers and technical experts, focussed on responding to the challenges and opportunities in our cities and towns.

2018 Conference: (Re)Connecting Communities 15 KATE PARKER CLAIRE STOKES DAVID SNYDER Element Centre for Social Impact, UWA Director, Spaced Out Placemakers

Kate is a project manager and public art strategist who Claire Stokes is a passionate social impact catalyst and David has always been fascinated by the dynamics and works at the forefront of place creation and activation. Her community builder with experience in the arts, project evolution of cities. Promoting local aspirations and culture qualifications in architecture combined with a background and program management, education and research. She in spaces inspires him to work with Spaced Out Placemakers. in writing for coveted design publications led to work with works across a number of projects creating the conditions David’s experience ranges in both the private and public FORM where she delivered projects such as Claremont’s for people to connect and thrive, enhancing society’s sector of urban planning, place activation, community Goods Shed, Art in Chinatown and PUBLIC Platform – a collective capacity to address our most complex problems engagement, community development and economic component of Perth’s street art and creativity festival PUBLIC. and enable all members of the community to reach their development. potential. Claire has spent many years working in Western Now part of element’s Place team, Kate’s current work ranges Australia’s not-for-profit sector and is a graduate of a Master He believes in creating urban policy and design that from cultural programming and place activation, advising on in Business Administration (MBA) from The University of promotes cross-sector collaboration and planning together. cultural infrastructure, to developing and delivering public art Western Australia (UWA). David strongly believes that a life with more fun, play and strategies and commissions. With an approach embedded in open dialogues will attract more people and positive place practical reality, she views culture and arts as a key community Most recently, she has worked across multiple initiatives at outcomes. David is a ‘doer’. connector and common ground. the Centre for Social Impact UWA, including lecturing for the unit ‘Changing the World: Social Innovation, Finance & Enterprise’, working on research projects particularly on the topic of outcomes measurement, and delivering multiple engagement activities including the Social Impact Festival.

16 The Town Team Movement NIC TEMOV BEN KENT JIMMY MURPHY Jane’s Walk Perth Place Activation, Inglewood on Beaufort Convenor, Town Team Movement

Nic Temov is an urban planner with over ten years’ experience I sit on Inglewood on Beaufort’s Management Committee Jimmy is the Chair and animating force behind the formation working on major projects in Perth — including Design where I have developed a Place Activation Plan based on of the Town Team Movement. As a Councillor for the City WA, Elizabeth Quay, Cockburn Coast and the PIA-awarded extensive community consultation. The Plan aims to bring of Vincent he enjoys bringing his energy and ideas to life. Scarborough Beach Road Activity Corridor Framework. more vibrancy and activity to our stretch of Beaufort Street and He chairs the Arts Advisory Board who has set a new vision surrounding suburbs. I am coordinating groups of interested for Vincent to become the Arts Capital of WA. He is also a Outside of work Nic encourages citizens to learn more about and engaged community members who are working to bring member of the City of Vincent Business Advisory Group and their neighbourhoods and what’s needed to build great cities. in more public art, culture and events, start a community represents Vincent on the Tamala Park Regional Council as He is the coordinator for Jane’s Walk Perth, which leads garden and activate our underutilised town square. an alternate member. groups on free walking tours that uncover the hidden and untold stories behind the bricks and mortar of Perth’s suburbs. In under a year, I have successfully secured over $20,000 in Jimmy’s day job is as Co-Founder, Director and Festival funds from State and Federal Governments to enable IoB to Producer of Upbeat Events which builds small to large-scale, deliver a variety of placemaking initiatives such as much needed iconic, sustainable events that inspire, connect and empower seating, planter boxes, murals, lighting in our civic centre, bike communities across Western Australia. parking and wayfinding signage. Due to the development of the Place Activation Plan, the Federal government committed Some of the previous community festivals Upbeat have $50,000 towards its implementation. produced with local communities include: Subiaco Street Party (50,000 attendees) Mt Hawthorn Streets and Lanes I am working with local businesses to activate empty shop Festival (70,000); Vic Park Summer Street Party (50,000) and fronts and create a string of urban plazas along Beaufort Street Light Up Leederville Carnival (60,000). Upbeat engage with with seating, shade and greenery. over 250,000 West Australians a year.

2018 Conference: (Re)Connecting Communities 17 NORION UBECHEL KATIE STUBLEY CALLUM PRIOR Mantra Studios, Creative Director Centre for Social Impact, UWA City of Wanneroo

Norion Ubechel is strategic planner, urban designer and Katie has been a facilitator, design strategist and process- Callum has a range of experience in both the public and creative professional focused on creating great places for designer for over 10 years. For the last six years she has been private sector in the fields of place planning, activation, public people through design excellence and data backed urban immersed in the field of social impact, eco-systems thinking engagement, and community development. intelligence. and design for innovation both internationally and locally. She uses her background in facilitation, strategic design and He’s most proud of his work building Project Robin Hood, a Norion has worked as an Urban Strategist and Designer in resource development to find the most useful tools and design $100,000 participatory budgeting and placemaking experiment the public and private sectors in Australia and America since processes to create meaningful change. Katie is passionate at the (developed and run entirely by young 2007. He holds a Masters Degree in Urban Planning and about developing a strong eco-system to foster social impact. people); and his time as a Place Facilitator for the City of Bachelors Degree in Environmental Design, both focusing She always aspires to build community and to empower people Adelaide where he helped establish Adelaide’s reputation as a on the integration of urban design and sustainability. to create positive social change. She’s an avid learner and will global leader in placemaking. delve into anything that helps her create a stronger impact. Today, Norion collaborates with a number of top tier design Callum is currently the Place Activation Advisor for the and place agencies from around the world, providing digital Katie has chosen to work at organisations that she feels deeply City of Wanneroo, a sessional academic for Curtin’s School and smart cities platforms and technologies to advance the inspired by. Including the Centre for Social Impact UWA of Built Environment, has recently been appointed to the built environment profession. He is the founder of Mantra (Strategic Design Manager - public engagement and teaching) Town of Victoria Park’s Economic Development Committee, Studios and the Australian lead of US intelligence agency - and Knowledge Society (Human-centred Designer), The is a member of the Project for Public Spaces Placemaking Oniracom. Australian Centre for Social Innovation - TACSI (Associate) Leadership Council, and helped birth the Place Invaders. and the Presencing Institute. She is also a Global Fellow with He’s also served time as a music & tour manager, and butler to the Academy for Systems Change. the governor. Talk to him about placemaking, participatory budgeting, pantaloons, community development, local government, and the many uses of baking soda and vinegar. 18 The Town Team Movement YOU CAN DESIGN & CREATE, & BUILD THE MOST WONDERFUL PLACE IN THE WORLD. BUT IT TAKES PEOPLE TO MAKE THE DREAM A REALITY. WALT DISNEY

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