ABSTRACT
Chapter 20 describes the utility to be found in personifying who the proponents and occupiers of innovative housing might be, particularly when facing a potentially unreceptive audience. The chapter describes shifting discussions from the ‘what’ of new housing to ‘for whom?’ In doing so, it returns the reader to the opening premise of the book: that our suburbs drastically need not just more housing, but housing that is much more diverse in response to our changing household needs. The chapter also discusses co-design and the benefit of tailoring workshops to a project. It concludes with ‘lessons from the Town Hall floor’: practical advice from reflecting on several years’ of presentations of the bluefield model to lay, professional, and government audiences.
