Creative Community Planning

by Sarkissian, Wendy; Hurford, Dianna; Wenman, Christine; Forester, John

• ISBN13: 9781844078462
• ISBN10: 1844078469
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Wendy Sarkissian PhD, a speaker, planning practitioner, academic and facilitator, has co-authored many award-winning books on planning and community engagement. Dianna Hurford MAP, poet and planner, has worked for the past 10 years in the field of affordable housing and homelessness in British Columbia, Canada. Christine Wenman MScP, is a community and natural resource planner whose professional focus includes governance, education and citizen engagement.

Table of Contents

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. ix
Poem and so we begin	p. x
Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Traversing the Edge: Introduction	p. 1
Poem practice is sensuous activity	p. 2
Why Traverse the Edge? Creative Underpinnings	p. 3
Practitioners Working at the Edge: Creativity in Practice	p. 17
Inhabiting the Edge: Dreaming, Imagining and Embodiment	p. 25
Poem !remember! our shapes	p. 26
The Practice of Inhabiting the Edge: Interview with Wendy Sarkissian	p. 27
Community Visioning as Engagement: Why a Conversation is Merited	p. 39
Heartstorming: Putting the Vision Back into Visioning	p. 49
Acting like a Child: Welcoming Spontaneity and Creativity in the Aurora Team Development Workshop	p. 69
Embodying the Vision: Kinetic Community Engagement Practices	p. 87
Stories from the Edge: Pushing Professional Practice	p. 103
Poem poetry planning code-filter: all	p. 104
Learning at the Margins: Margo Fryer and Pamela Ponic on Deconstructing Power and Privilege	p. 105
'And Action!' New Roles for Film in Engagement	p. 117
Websites as Engagement Site and Story	p. 133
Creativity and Moving Beyond Conflict	p. 141
The Growing Edge: Creative Engagement Processes for Children and Young People	p. 157
Poem the song will continue	p. 158
But They're Only Kids! Why Engage with Children and Young People?	p. 159
Blurring the Edges: A Call for an Integration of Transformative Processes	p. 175
Poem !open up! (sound of :wall (blast)	p. 176
New Languages for Community Engagement: Translation, Language and Polyphony	p. 177
On the Edge of Utopia: Stories from The Great Turning	p. 193
Gilt-edged Resources	p. 201
A Visioning Example: Our Bonnyrigg Dream	p. 203
The Embodied Affinity Diagram	p. 209
The Gods Must Be Crazy: Script and Instructions from the Safe Communities Scenario, Sydney	p. 213
Barefoot Mapping: Learning through the Soles of Our Feet: A Participatory Design Workshop for Youth in Airds, Sydney	p. 222
A Week with a Camera	p. 231
Notes	p. 241
References	p. 267
Appreciations	p. 289
Sources for Photographs	p. 297
About the Authors	p. 299
Index	p. 303
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