Fairplace

Fairplace’s founding director will be contemplating a subject very close to our ethical core - how local people are central to helping places thrive and how to give them stronger voices in decision making 🗣️

‘An extraordinarily useful piece of work’ - Manager Place Planning, inner city LGA. #Streets are the engines of robust and inclusive places, they are the most enduring parts of our urban fabric and the living rooms of our public realm. Fairplace loves #streets and empowers #communities to use their local knowledge and expertise to reimagine their potential. Local Government Planners Association City of Vincent City of Subiaco

‘Balancing Act’ is a new activity we designed as a first step in our workshop process to enable more effective community input into planning frameworks for locations such as Town Centres. It allows participants to quickly establish their future priorities for places and for us to gather and translate that information into the next stage of Co-Design. The activity design is attractive, inclusive, playful and legible. #CommunityEngagement #SeriousGames #Design #Play #UrbanPlanning #UrbanDesign

We are happy to announce a new research partnership with Professor Richard Vokes and the Ethnography Lab at The University of Western Australia. We will be working with the team to develop and apply our interactive tools to engage with new methods of recording and describing culture. As part of this we are kicking things of with a Masterclass for UWA students and researchers. #communityengagement #seriousgames #design #urbanplanning #urbandesign #ethnography #collaboration #uwa #masterclass https://lnkd.in/gNSP7Ff4

Fairplace Councillor Workshop July 2024 New and ongoing elected members partake in a hands-on Co-Design activity, facilitating knowledge exchange with planning and built environment staff. This helps build understanding of the different roles and skills in local government as well as learning about key principles and concepts to create a more effective decision making environment. In this workshop the focus was on the growth of #towncentres which are a vital ingredient of Perth's future development. Our methodology helps identify significant aspects of place that should be nurtured. Groups then explored how infill dwelling targets translate to built form scenarios and the opportunities for community benefit that result from growth. Facilitated reflections on each groups experience consolidates learning and understanding. We also run medium density, main street and precinct versions depending on the specific learning needs of each local government. Thanks to Karsen Reynolds, Joslin Colli, Mitchell Hoad for inviting us back to help build the capacity of the team at the City of Vincent. #planning #localgovernment #education #seriousgames #urbandesign #communityengagement #responsiblefutures

Working on our #codesign prototype of #place, #people and new #homes for Mt Hawthorn Town Centre Planning framework #community engagement this Wednesday evening. Building on the findings of the visioning workshop and ‘balancing act’ serious game. Thanks to the amazing efforts of Fairplace design lead Grace Oliver .

It’s been a while since our last post. Here is a new #seriousgame called ‘Balancing Act’ we have designed for examining trade offs in #urbanplanning. It’s quick and gets participants thinking about priorities for #place. It also educates about relationships between planning, development and community benefits. We have just finished two workshops with the Mt Hawthorn #community and the City of Vincent using this new tool. Some useful insights and feedback. Thanks to Karen Lee from Solidaria Public for her guidance and inputs into these workshops. This tool can be applied to any context and gives both qualitative and quantitative information to help with vision building and the design of our next workshop with this community to inform a strong community-led planning framework for this town centre.