ABSTRACT

Creative Community Planning provides clear access to emerging innovations in artistic, narrative, embodied and technological methods. Reflecting on the wide continuum of participatory practice, the authors explore the frontiers of community engagement within a fresh sustainability framework. Leading planning theorists, researchers and practitioners in the field reflect with the authors on the many successes and challenges in engaging with a diversity of people in rural and urban communities. These conversations reveal creativity as key to enhancing existing engagement practices. Concepts and practical applications thread through the book, including community visioning, participatory research and reporting, conflict resolution, poetry and planning language, theatre, photography, film and websites.

part 1|23 pages

Traversing the Edge

chapter 1|13 pages

Why Traverse the Edge?

Creative Underpinnings

chapter 2|7 pages

Practitioners Working at the Edge

Creativity in Practice

part 2|77 pages

Inhabiting the Edge

chapter 3|11 pages

The Practice of Inhabiting the Edge

Interview with Wendy Sarkissian

chapter 4|10 pages

Community Visioning as Engagement

Why a Conversation is Merited

chapter 5|20 pages

Heartstorming

Putting the Vision Back into Visioning

chapter 6|18 pages

Acting like a Child

Welcoming Spontaneity and Creativity in the Aurora Team Development Workshop

chapter 7|15 pages

Embodying the Vision

Kinetic Community Engagement Practices

part 3|53 pages

Stories from the Edge

chapter 8|12 pages

Learning at the Margins

Margo Fryer and Pamela Ponic on Deconstructing Power and Privilege

chapter 9|16 pages

‘And Action!' New Roles for Film in Engagement

Leonie Sandercock and Jonathan Franz

chapter 10|8 pages

Websites as Engagement Site and Story

Aileen Penner and Think Salmon

chapter 11|15 pages

Creativity and Moving Beyond Conflict

Michelle LeBaron, Norma-Jean McLaren and Nathan Edelson

part 4|18 pages

The Growing Edge

part 5|25 pages

Blurring the Edges

chapter 13|15 pages

New Languages for Community Engagement

Translation, Language and Polyphony

chapter 14|7 pages

On the Edge of Utopia

Stories from The Great Turning

part |40 pages

Gilt-edged Resources

chapter |9 pages

Gilt-edged Resources 3: The Gods Must Be Crazy

Script and Instructions from the Safe Communities Scenario, Sydney

chapter |9 pages

Gilt-edged Resources 4: Barefoot Mapping

Learning Through the Soles of Our Feet: A Participatory Design Workshop for Youth In Airds, Sydney, New South Wales 1