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2018 Conference: (Re)Connecting Communities 1

WEST END ARTS PRECINCTWESTERNAUSTRALIA

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

TOWNTEAMS.COM.AU/CONFERENCE

TOWN TEAM MOVEMENT

(RE) CONNECTING COMMUNITIES

14 –

15 SE

PTEM

BER

THROUGH PLACE LEADERSHIP & ACTIVATION

2 The Town Team Movement

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


TOPICS INCLUDE• Place Making

• Place Activation

• Place Leadership & Management

• Organisational Cultural Shifts and facilitating ‘Yes’ Attitudes

• Capacity Building

• Retail & Town Centre Management

• Economic & Community Development

• Effective Public Engagement

• Prioritising People

• Town Team Discussions

• Local & International Case Studies

• Interactive Activities

WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US

In this new century characterised by

disruptive social, technological, economic

and political change: How do we help

communities to reconnect?

How do we inspire, encourage and

empower citizens to start activating

and improving their public spaces to

make their community more vibrant?

How do we activate communities

with low social capital?

CLIMATES & CULTURES DIFFER ALL OVER THE WORLD, BUT PEOPLE ARE THE SAME. THEY’LL GATHER IN PUBLIC IF YOU GIVE THEM A GOOD PLACE TO DO IT.JAHN GEHL


PART 1: THE PLACE PROGRAMHOLMES À COURT GALLERY, 10 DOUGLAS ST, WEST PERTH

TIME TOPIC SPEAKER

Master of Ceremonies - Claire Stokes & Katie Stubley

8:00am Registration - Tea & Coffee Provided

8:50am Welcome to Country Ingrid Cumming, Kart Koorn Wiern

9:05am Town Teams IntroductionDale Alcock, ABN Group

Jimmy Murphy, Chair, Town Team Movement

9:15am Opening Address John Carey, MLA, Member for Perth

9:20amUnleashing the Power of

Human ConnectionPeter Sharp, Social Entrepreneur, Liberators

International

9:40amLocal Government Getting

out of the WayLen Kosova, CEO, City of Vincent

Anthony Vuleta, CEO, Town of Victoria Park

10:00amFacilitating a Cultural Shift

in GovernanceGilbert Rochecouste, Founder & Managing

Partner, Village Well

10:20amTown Teams: What do you do when the boundaries

disappear?

Dr David Galloway, FerartDr Gaye MacKenzie, Collective IQ

Urban Future Lab & Leederville Connect

10:40am Morning TeaKate O’Hara presenting Hawaiian’s Sunshine

Harvest Incubator Project

TIME TOPIC SPEAKER

11:10amMatching Planning with

ActionValli Morphett, CEO, Co-Design

11:30am Guerilla GovernanceAndy Sharp, Director Design & Place Strategy, City Renewal Authority, ACT Government

11:50amCommunity and Creative

OutcomesMarcus Westbury, Founder Renew Newcastle

12:10pmTown Team Panel

Discussion

John Carey, MLA, Member for Perth

Pam Herron, former Chair, Beaufort Street Network

Joni Sercombe, former Chair, Vic Park Collective

Candice Di Prinzio, Chair, Shape Mandurah

12:40pm - 1:40pm

Lunch & Great Place Activation Examples

Food Trucks: Bantastic Mi, Phat Pharoah, Locale Kitchen

CONFERENCE PROGRAMPRESENTED BY

PART 2: CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE1:40pm - 2:40pm & 2:50pm - 3:50pmCHOOSE TWO BREAKOUT SESSIONS (ONE EACH HOUR + 10MIN BREAK) - PRE-BOOK ON YOUR TTM APP

VENUE 1: TOWN TEAMS MOVING FORWARD

VENUE 2: THE FUTURE OF TOWN CENTRES

VENUE 3: PUTTING PLACE FIRST

VENUE 4: THE ROLE OF ACTIVATION AND THE ARTS

VENUE 5: JANE’S WALK LEEDERVILLE

PRESENTED BY SAFE ACTIVE STREETS ,

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT

Topic 1: Starting a Town Team:

Recommended for participants interested in starting a new Town Team.

Topic 2: Progressing Existing Town Teams:

Recommended for existing Town Teams to discuss future needs.

In a future guided by increased competition through online purchasing and the remodelling of shopping centres, what is the role of the town centre?

Recommended for participants interested in being part of a discussion regarding the future activation and management of Town Centres.

How does government move from gatekeeper to place enabler?

Recommended for participants interested in learning more about organisational place leadership, governance and administering more effective public engagement.

Our public environments are increasingly being popularised by pop-ups, murals and food trucks. Are we missing the point and generating a loss of authenticity?

Recommended for participants wanting to be involved in discussions regarding the Arts and how it can be better integrated within place strategies and creating better public spaces.

Join David & Nic on a guided walk through the Leederville Town Centre and learn about

the findings and impact a town team can have on its built and social environment. Also, learn more about starting your own

Jane’s Walk.

Dean Cracknell, CEO, Town Team Movement

Gilbert Rochecouste, Founder & Managing Partner, Village Well

Callum Prior, Splash AdelaideJimmy Murphy, Councillor, City of Vincent & Director, UpBeat Events

Dr David Galloway, Ferart and former Chair, Leederville

Connect

Ben Kent, Inglewood on Beaufort

Marcus Westbury, Founder, Renew Newcastle

Joanne Taylor, CEO, Place Leaders Asia Pacific

Valli Morphett, CEO, Co-DesignNic Temov, Founder Jane’s

Walk Perth

Georgia Lawrence, Place Manager, City of Vincent

Dan Bull, Mayor, City of BayswaterDavid Doy, Place Manager, Town of

Victoria ParkKate Parker, Element

Marc Drexel, Town Team Movement

Norion Ubechel, Oniracom Audience Intelligence

Duane Cole, Managing Director West Coast at Roberts Day

Hilary Lambert, Director Commercial / Properties Facilities Development, Curtin University

PRESENTED BY

PART 3: BRINGING IT HOMEHOLMES À COURT GALLERY, 10 DOUGLAS ST, WEST PERTH

TIME TOPIC SPEAKER4:00pm Valli’s Home Video Course Valli Morphett, CEO, Co-Design

4:30pmTown Team Movement

Future Actions

Joanne Taylor, Place Leaders Asia Pacific

David Snyder, Director Spaced Out Placemakers


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

PRESENTED BY

NETWORKING DRINKS PRESENTED BY

SAT, 15 SEPT FROM 11AM - 3PMHOLMES À COURT GALLERY, 10 DOUGLAS ST, WEST PERTH

TIME TOPIC SPEAKER

11:00amIntroductions and Grant

Funding Workshops

Heiko Pange, Chuffed

Lotterywest

12:00pm Town Team AwardsJimmy Murphy, Town Team Convenor


12:45pm Lunch & Drinks

PRESENTED BY

TOWN TEAMS LONG TABLE LUNCH


SPEAKERS

GILBERT ROCHECOUSTEFounder & Managing Director, Village Well

Gilbert is recognised locally and Internationally as a leading voice in creating great places for people. He has worked with over 1000 cities, towns, main streets, universities, property developers, government organisations and communities over the past 25 years; crafting a powerful integrated approach to creating vibrant, resilient and loved places that are socially, culturally and commercially successful.

Gilbert is a skilled facilitator and agent provocateur of positive change and inspiration: his bold ideas and projects helping make Melbourne the most liveable. He sees the potential of Placemaking to inspire a deep cultural and social environmental awareness and stewardship to make a dierence both locally and globally. Gilbert co-founded the EPOCH Foundation promoting the adoption of business ethics and has served on the Boards of Ross House, Donkey Wheel House Trust and Hub Australia.

MARCUS WESTBURYFounder, Renew Newcastle

Marcus Westbury was the founder of the multi award winning Renew Newcastle and Renew Australia projects that have helped launch more than three hundred creative and community projects in empty and abandoned buildings and reopened more than a hundred vacant shops and offices across Australia.

Marcus’s background is as an urbanist, writer, media maker and festival director and the founder and manager of multiple arts events, community projects and social enterprises across Australia. He is the author of the crowd funded Amazon best selling book Creating Cities (Niche Press, 2015) and has been the writer and presenter of the ABC TV (Australia) series Bespoke and Not Quite Art.

Marcus is currently employed as the founding CEO of Contemporary Arts Precincts Ltd - a not for profit company that is leading the redevelopment of the Collingwood Arts Precinct in Melbourne and is an Honorary Fellow of Monash University.

INGRID CUMMINGFounder & CEO, Kart Koort Wiern

Ingrid is a Whadjuk Balardong Nyungar custodian and traditional owner. An Anthropology graduate from Murdoch University, Ingrid has also completed studies with Melbourne Business school, presented at the UN women leaders forum in Israel 2013, Finalist in Belmont Small Business Awards 2013 and Nominee for Telstra Women in Business Awards 2014.

Despite her dreams of being the first Aboriginal woman Prime Minister, her current role is CEO and Founder of Kart Koort Wiern, or Head Heart and Spirit. The company ethos is ‘it takes knowledge, compassion and culture to create reconciliation and change’.


LEN KOSOVACEO, City of Vincent

Len joined the City of Vincent as its Chief Executive Officer in August 2014. He is a Town Planner and Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and began working in planning in 1995 after graduating from Curtin University. As a planner, Len has worked across Western Australia and before joining Vincent held Director positions at the Shire of Mundaring and the Cities of Gosnells and Wanneroo over a 13 year period, spanning the portfolios of planning, building, health, land development, environmental management, urban renewal and economic development. Len is passionate about institutional innovation, rocking the boat, leading by example, and asking “what if?”.

ANTHONY VULETACEO, Town of Victoria Park

Anthony Vuleta was born and raised in Perth and began his career in a private civil design consultancy before moving into local government. He has worked at the Cities of Swan (Shire), Belmont and Subiaco prior to starting with the Town of Victoria Park as Manager of Technical Services in 2002. In 2008 he became Director of Renew Life where he oversaw the Town’s infrastructure program. He then Acted as the CEO for 15 months before permanent appointment to CEO in May 2015. He is a past President for the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia (IPWEA) WA, a past Executive Director of IPWEA and a trustee of the Public Works Foundation and has been involved with the institute since 1999.

Anthony sits on the Local Government Advisory Board and Burwood Park Board, is a member of Chief Officers Group for Australasia and the Local Government Professionals (LGPro). Anthony has a key focus on developing strategies to help improve and reshape the business of local government to meet the current and future community needs.

VALLI MORPHETTCEO, Co-Design

Valli is an energetic optimist, who believes that great places are founded on true collaboration. She is passionate about innovative placemaking, creative engagement and collaborative city making and has spent over a decade driving systemic place-based change.

Valli has extensive experience in delivering purposeful placemaking strategies, locally owned activation programs and meaningful place outcomes for diverse sectors including Government, urban renewal, greenfield development, design-construct alliances and the Universities.

Valli has built industry capacity through Victoria and South Australia through delivery of placemaking training and regular speaking engagements. In 2017 she delivered a Kitchen Table Conference for Open State Festival of Democracy and has convened the Place Invaders placemaking peer network in SA since 2015. She is a member of Project for Public Spaces’ Global Place Leadership Council, is a founding member of Engage 2 Act engagement collective and a past South Australian IAP2 Coordinator.


Dr GAYE MACKENZIECollective IQ & Leederville Urban Futures Lab

A sociological background and experience across a diverse range of organisations and areas has led Gaye to be passionate about inspiring people to see other’s perspectives, to appreciate the complexity of problems that involve humans and to have conversations that enable change. Gaye brings these ideals to life in a variety of contexts and settings through her work with Collective IQ.

JOHN CAREYMLA, Member for Perth

John Carey has lived in Brisbane Street in Perth for more than a decade and loves the great lifestyle that the city offers. But he also personally knows the real challenges it brings living in the city. As the Mayor of Vincent, which includes parts of West Perth, East Perth and Perth, he been working hard to make these precincts more vibrant and safer for residents.

Tired of a lack of positive action on Beaufort Street, John founded the Beaufort Street Network, a local business and resident organisation aimed at revitalizing the precinct. The Network has driven the transformation of the Beaufort Street precinct, through projects which have helped built a sense of a real community. John also co-founded the Beaufort Street Festival, credited with putting the café and retail on the tourist map.

KATE O’HARADirector and Chief Brand Officer, Hawaiian Pty Ltd

Kate has a wealth of marketing and PR experience, beginning at Marketforce in Perth in the 1980’s, after graduating with a B.Comm from UWA.

She is an astute businesswoman, networker and a mentor to many in Perth marketing circles. Before joining Hawaiian, Kate lived and worked in Singapore, returning to Perth to take up advertising and PR management roles at The Shorter Group and The Capital Group.

In her spare time, Kate is the Chair of The 500 Club, current board member and former Chair of the Fashion Council WA, Director of the WACA Foundation, member of the Forrest Foundation selection committee and graduate of the AICD Company Director’s course.


ANDY SHARPDirector Design and Place Strategy, City Renewal Authority, CBR

Andy is a visionary leader who inspires, builds high performing teams, and manages trans-disciplinary portfolios across multiple business units. He has a proven track record and natural ability to transform teams into focussed, creative and integrated businesses aligned to building great urban places. He is an inspirational leader focussed on creating cities for the future.

For example, at Curtin University Andy led the redevelopment of the campus in to a major urban centre known as Greater Curtin. His skills in delivering major projects will see the university boom into a knowledge city connected to Perth by rapid light rail with an array of 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.

HILLARY LAMBERTPortfolio Manager, Place Activation, Curtin University

Hillary has led the growth of Curtin’s award-winning Place Activation program for the past six years, marking a transformation of the place experience on campus. Hillary has 20 years’ experience as a communications, partnerships and events specialist for the State’s leading cultural institutions, community organisations and as a policy advisor to the Minister for Culture and the Arts and Planning during the rebirth of the Perth Cultural Centre and Forrest Place.

PETER SHARPSocial Entrepreneur; Founder, Liberators International

Perth born ex-accountant turned social entrepreneur has a passion for connecting humanity on a deeper level via his interactive ashmobs that blur the lines between passive citizens and active participants.

You might remember the time he started a dance party on a Perth Train after work, or a spontaneous sing-along with strangers on a Monday morning. His videos of public space activations have received over 100 million views world-wide and many have sparked positive social movements in other countries to follow suit. His inspiring and practical approach is something that any small team can facilitate in their own city to enhance the quality of human connection in public.


DALE ALCOCKManaging Director, ABN Group

Dale Alcock is a homegrown success story, from bricklayer to Australia’s leading home builder. His reputation has become synonymous with quality, excellence and distinction.

Under the leadership of Dale as Managing Director, the ABN Group operates in Western Australia and Victoria and has built almost 70,000 homes across the two states. It is comprised of 20 companies with more than 1400 employees, 150 apprentices and 1500 contractors.

Dale remains an avid believer in the social responsibility of his companies. As an industry advocate, Dale provides valuable support to industry training programs and promotes career opportunities within the building industry.

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.

JOANNE TAYLORCEO, Place Leaders Asia Pacific

Joanne is the CEO of Place Leaders Asia Pacific, a not-for-profit member organisation for the promotion of place leadership across the Asia Pacific.

A driving force behind her work is a deep interest in applying creative strategy to emergent governance models and collaborative management systems.

She draws inspiration from her architecture and design experience to constantly explore how these new models can be used to drive positive change in society in order to add value to people, place, design and communities.

DAN BULLMayor, City of Bayswater

Elected to Mayor of the City of Bayswater in October 2017, Dan is proud to be leading a council going through evolutionary change and a district that is flourishing. With a firm belief in the importance of excellent amenity in town centres, as well as protecting ecologically sensitive areas, Dan is also committed to creating the opportunity for people to work, live and play in this vibrant, inner city location.

A strong focus on community satisfaction means Dan is working closely with residents and developers to ensure the district is able to embrace the opportunities created by changes in land use and capitalise on the positive contribution Metronet will make to the area. Dan has a background in law and music. He lives in Bayswater with his wife and two children.


PAM HERRONFormer Chair, Beaufort Street Network & Board Member, Town Team Movement

Pam Herron has been involved in the local Beaufort Street community for many years, is ex Chair of the Beaufort Street Network and has sat on several City of Vincent advisory groups for both businesses and residents.

Pam has sat on the Beaufort Street Festival committee and Beaufort Street Artisan Market committee over the past 6 years but has now resigned these positions to follow her passion for animal welfare and to sit on the Town Team Movement Executive Committee.

JONI SERCOMBEFormer Chair, Vic Park Collective

Joni Sercombe has 20 years’ experience delivering not-for-profit services, mentoring programs, community arts projects and place-based initiatives in WA and overseas. Memorable roles include working in alternative education and housing estates in London, rolling out indigenous traineeship programs in remote WA, lobbying government via the Youth Affairs Council of WA, working in the grants area at Lotterywest, helping run street festivals and other grassroots projects.

Her experience growing and leading place-based groups such as the Vic Park Collective utilised her community development skills, interest in the sharing economy and digital tools for community organizing. In her current role at MercyCare, she is working with The Australian Centre for Social Innovation to explore what a 21st century Neighbourhood Centre model might look like.

Dr DAVID GALLOWAYDeputy Chair, Leederville Connect, Ferart & Leederville Urban Futures Lab

David has over 30 years experience in Australia and overseas working for government, industry, business, community groups, NGO’s and individuals. He has degrees in engineering, environmental science, sustainability and a Doctorate in design and sustainability.

His current work is strongly focused in design, working at the front-end of large projects to make them go beyond being purely sustainable and to become fully regenerative and productive.

His experience is in project design and management, regional and urban planning, community liaison, ecological engineering, vision creation, issues management, natural resource management, and policy.


DEAN CRACKNELLCEO, Town Team Movement

Dean is a Co-Founder, CEO and ‘Chief Doer’ at Town Team Movement. He previously worked in local government for 12 years as a strategic urban planner and is interested in:

• Place leadership

• Stewardship

• Governments playing the role of facilitators, not just service providers

• Empowering communities to create positive change

• Creating better places

He is inspired by John F. Kennedy’s quote:

“I always thought someone should to do something, until, one day I realised I was Someone”.

CANDICE DiPRINZIOChair, Shape Mandurah

Candice is passionate about people. Her role as Chairperson of Shape Mandurah has allowed her to branch out of her day-to-day career in Real Estate and start to connect with her fellow community members at a grass roots level.

She loves to see and encourage her fellow neighbours to work together in collaboration and positivity to promote growth and change both socially and economically. She is happy to get her hands dirty and go all-in to achieve goals and outcomes.

Candice believes by building others up and breaking down boundaries, great things can happen.

DAVID DOYPlace Manager, Town of Victoria Park

David is one of a number of urban professionals leading major change to the way Local Government operates - from siloed service delivery to an integrated focus on place and a commitment to delivering good urban outcomes for people.

Following a 5 year career as a P.E. teacher he switched to urban planning where he worked in private industry and played a key role in an emerging place group known as the Beaufort Street Network. He moved across to the City of Vincent in 2014 creating the national award winning Place Management Program, worked with and helped establish Town Teams in Leederville, Mount Hawthorn, Northbridge and North Perth as well as establishing the Beaufort Street Network.

He made the shift across the river to the Town of Victoria Park in the newly created role of Manager Place Planning. 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.


ROBYN CREAGHPlace Agency, Curtin University

Place Agency is a national platform inspiring postgrad students to up-skill in some of the practical requirements of placemaking projects. University teams across the country are partnering with local community, government and professional groups to articulate and support richer understandings of placemaking processes.

We will be sharing our findings openly through a developing web presence www.placeagency.org.au and through state-based events. Please let us know if you are interested in sharing your experience, or in partnering with university students through a local placemaking project. The program is supported by the Myer Foundation.

DUANE COLEManaging Director, West Coast at Roberts Day

As an urban planner with over 30 years’ experience, Duane has worked predominantly in the land development industry providing innovative solutions and a pragmatic approach to project delivery. His practice focuses on collaborative engagement and creative leadership to develop bespoke and tactical project strategies that unlock complex projects to deliver commercial outcomes.

As RobertsDay’s Perth Studio Leader from 2008-2017, Duane guided the evolution of the local practice by improving the value of client service and deliverables through the introduction of place-making capability and evidenced based metrics to its integrated urban design and town planning 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.

GEORGIA LAWRENCEPlace Manager, City of Vincent

Georgia leads the City of Vincent’s award winning Place Management program. This program has been responsible for supporting and enabling Town Teams to take a lead role in the development and growth of Vincent’s town centres.

Georgia has a broad range of urban design experience, spanning the disciplines of urban design, planning, transport, landscape architecture and stakeholder engagement. Georgia has experience working on complex, multifaceted projects and has managed and worked with multidisciplinary teams and facilitated key community and stakeholder workshops. This experience coupled with the collaborative environment in which she has worked has afforded her the opportunity to address a broad range of complex place governance and development-related issues.


KATE PARKERElement

Kate is a project manager and public art strategist who works at the forefront of place creation and activation. Her qualifications in architecture combined with a background in writing for coveted design publications led to work with FORM where she delivered projects such as Claremont’s Goods Shed, Art in Chinatown and PUBLIC Platform – a component of Perth’s street art and creativity festival PUBLIC.

Now part of element’s Place team, Kate’s current work ranges from cultural programming and place activation, advising on cultural infrastructure, to developing and delivering public art strategies and commissions. With an approach embedded in practical reality, she views culture and arts as a key community connector and common ground.

DAVID SNYDERDirector, Spaced Out Placemakers

David has always been fascinated by the dynamics and evolution of cities. Promoting local aspirations and culture in spaces inspires him to work with Spaced Out Placemakers. David’s experience ranges in both the private and public sector of urban planning, place activation, community engagement, community development and economic development.

He believes in creating urban policy and design that promotes cross-sector collaboration and planning together. David strongly believes that a life with more fun, play and open dialogues will attract more people and positive place outcomes. David is a ‘doer’.

CLAIRE STOKESCentre for Social Impact, UWA

Claire Stokes is a passionate social impact catalyst and community builder with experience in the arts, project and program management, education and research. She works across a number of projects creating the conditions for people to connect and thrive, enhancing society’s collective capacity to address our most complex problems and enable all members of the community to reach their potential. Claire has spent many years working in Western Australia’s not-for-profit sector and is a graduate of a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from The University of Western Australia (UWA).

Most recently, she has worked across multiple initiatives at 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.


BEN KENTPlace Activation, Inglewood on Beaufort

I sit on Inglewood on Beaufort’s Management Committee where I have developed a Place Activation Plan based on extensive community consultation. The Plan aims to bring more vibrancy and activity to our stretch of Beaufort Street and surrounding suburbs. I am coordinating groups of interested and engaged community members who are working to bring in more public art, culture and events, start a community garden and activate our underutilised town square.

In under a year, I have successfully secured over $20,000 in funds from State and Federal Governments to enable IoB to deliver a variety of placemaking initiatives such as much needed seating, planter boxes, murals, lighting in our civic centre, bike parking and wayfinding signage. Due to the development of the Place Activation Plan, the Federal government committed $50,000 towards its implementation.

I am working with local businesses to activate empty shop fronts and create a string of urban plazas along Beaufort Street with seating, shade and greenery.

NIC TEMOVJane’s Walk Perth

Nic Temov is an urban planner with over ten years’ experience working on major projects in Perth — including Design WA, Elizabeth Quay, Cockburn Coast and the PIA-awarded Scarborough Beach Road Activity Corridor Framework.

Outside of work Nic encourages citizens to learn more about their neighbourhoods and what’s needed to build great cities. He is the coordinator for Jane’s Walk Perth, which leads groups on free walking tours that uncover the hidden and untold stories behind the bricks and mortar of Perth’s suburbs.

JIMMY MURPHYConvenor, Town Team Movement

Jimmy is the Chair and animating force behind the formation of the Town Team Movement. As a Councillor for the City of Vincent he enjoys bringing his energy and ideas to life. He chairs the Arts Advisory Board who has set a new vision for Vincent to become the Arts Capital of WA. He is also a member of the City of Vincent Business Advisory Group and represents Vincent on the Tamala Park Regional Council as an alternate member.

Jimmy’s day job is as Co-Founder, Director and Festival Producer of Upbeat Events which builds small to large-scale, iconic, sustainable events that inspire, connect and empower communities across Western Australia.

Some of the previous community festivals Upbeat have produced with local communities include: Subiaco Street Party (50,000 attendees) Mt Hawthorn Streets and Lanes Festival (70,000); Vic Park Summer Street Party (50,000) and Light Up Leederville Carnival (60,000). Upbeat engage with over 250,000 West Australians a year.


KATIE STUBLEYCentre for Social Impact, UWA

Katie has been a facilitator, design strategist and process-designer for over 10 years. For the last six years she has been immersed in the field of social impact, eco-systems thinking and design for innovation both internationally and locally. She uses her background in facilitation, strategic design and resource development to find the most useful tools and design processes to create meaningful change. Katie is passionate about developing a strong eco-system to foster social impact. She always aspires to build community and to empower people to create positive social change. She’s an avid learner and will delve into anything that helps her create a stronger impact.

Katie has chosen to work at organisations that she feels deeply inspired by. Including the Centre for Social Impact UWA (Strategic Design Manager - public engagement and teaching) and Knowledge Society (Human-centred Designer), The Australian Centre for Social Innovation - TACSI (Associate) and the Presencing Institute. She is also a Global Fellow with the Academy for Systems Change.

NORION UBECHELMantra Studios, Creative Director

Norion Ubechel is strategic planner, urban designer and creative professional focused on creating great places for people through design excellence and data backed urban intelligence.

Norion has worked as an Urban Strategist and Designer in the public and private sectors in Australia and America since 2007. He holds a Masters Degree in Urban Planning and Bachelors Degree in Environmental Design, both focusing on the integration of urban design and sustainability.

Today, Norion collaborates with a number of top tier design and place agencies from around the world, providing digital and smart cities platforms and technologies to advance the built environment profession. He is the founder of Mantra Studios and the Australian lead of US intelligence agency - Oniracom.

CALLUM PRIORSplash Adelaide

Callum has a range of experience in both the public and private sector in the fields of place planning, activation, public engagement and community development.

As his role of place facilitator with Adelaide City Council, Callum helped establish the City of Adelaide’s reputation as a global leader in placemaking. His work has been the subject of several research projects and called out internationally as best practise in the field. We have also been used by the Project for Public Spaces as a case study in placemaking.

Currently working with Curtin University on the Placemaking Sandbox: WA Project. This is a consortium of Universities across Australia working with local placemaking leaders to develop place based learning modules for tertiary planning and design students. We’ll also be looking at establishing mentoring, support, and networking opportunities for local placemaking practitioners.

Callum was recently identifed by Bang the Table as being on the cutting edge of community engagement practise in local government.


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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