PLAY FOR A VITAL AND SUSTAINABLE CITY

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1 PLAY FOR A VITAL AND SUSTAINABLE CITY November 2018 The National Museum of Australia, Lawson Cres, Acton Join us as we explore the principles and the practices needed to design and deliver truly wonderful public play spaces for all. Over two days we present an exciting national line up of experts in play space design, place making, the arts, and ecology, who will help us imagine a play space where everyone can (and wants to) play, a truly wondrous place - the World s Most Amazing Play Space! PROGRAM DAY ONE CANBERRA, PLAY SPACES AND POSSIBILITY Welcome and Possibilities of Play Cathy Hope, Coordinator, Play Creativity and Wellbeing Project, Cultural Research, University of Canberra Urban Renewal for a Playful Canberra Andy Sharp, Director, Design and Place, City Renewal Authority Morning tea IMAGINE IF: AMAZING PLAY SPACES FOR ALL! Making public play spaces Kate Luckraft, Studio Director, Aspect Studios, Sydney Intergenerational Play Kate Bishop, Senior Lecturer, School Of Built Environment, UNSW, Sydney Youth Play Jason Geralis, Design Manager, Convic, Melbourne Lunch and West Basin Challenge

2 PLAY SPACES AS SENSORY EXPERIENCE Play, the Senses and Inclusion Mary Jeavons, Director, Jeavons Landscape Architects, Sydney Nature, Wellbeing and Play Zoe Myers, Lecturer, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, University of Western Australia Adapting to Urban Stress: Parkour and Playing the City Alex Pavlotski, Professional Teaching Fellow, University of Auckland, Auckland Afternoon tea Pop Inn Bar, Museum of Possibilities, Daily Tous Les Jours, City Hill (c/-design Canberra) DAY TWO PLACE MAKING AND PLAY SPACE Successful place making in urban public spaces Annelise Safstrom, Director Urban Design, Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority, Perth Streets as play spaces for all Valli Morphett, CEO, CoDesign Studio, Melbourne Night and Safe Play Spaces for All Anne Malloch, Team Leader, City Issues, City of Melbourne, Melbourne Morning tea NEW MODES OF ENGAGEMENT IN PLAY SPACES Playable cities and hacking urban public space Troy Innocent, Senior Lecturer (Games and Interactivity), Smart Cities Research Institute, Swinburne University, Melbourne Urban Ecology and Play Space Benjamin Cooke, Lecturer, Sustainability and Planning, RMIT, Melbourne Lunch and West Basin Challenge ART IN PLAY: CREATIVE PUBLIC PLAY SPACES Arts, the Fringe and Play Space Simon Abrahams, Creative Director/CEO, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne Play, Performance and Public Space Sue Giles, Artistic Director/Co-CEO, Polyglot Theatre, Melbourne

3 SPEAKERS: DAY ONE Dr Cathy Hope, Coordinator, Play Creativity and Culture Project, Cultural Research, University of Canberra Andy Sharp, Director, Design and Place, City Renewal Authority Kate Luckraft, Studio Director, Aspect Studios, Sydney Cathy Hope is the Coordinator of the Play, Creativity and Wellbeing Project in the at the University of Canberra. This applied research project critically examines the role and capability of play as a form cultural practice across the lifespan. The Project is currently investigating the potential of play in enlivening cities and enhancing wellbeing in partnership with the ACT Government to inform urban renewal in Canberra. Cathy is the founder of the Play Activation Network ACT - an interdisciplinary and collaborative collective of over 70 local professionals with an interest in making Canberra a more playful city, and in improving quality of life. Cathy has written extensively on alternative cultures including film festivals, farmers markets and Australian youth radio station Triple J. Cathy programmed films for the early Canberra International Film Festivals, and co-directed the Canberra Short Film Festival. Andy Sharp is the City Renewal Authority s newly appointed Director of Design and Place Strategy. Having spent many years as a partner in large international design practices and more recently redeveloping key Australian university campuses, Andy brings impressive design understanding to the City Renewal Authority. At Curtin University he led the redevelopment of the campus into a major urban centre known as Greater Curtin, and at the Australian National University oversaw the campus master plan renewal. Andy is passionate about the design and development of urban areas so they are vibrant, connected, attractive and sustainable. Having worked across the world, including in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand, he has a proven track record of making complex, city-scale design decisions using experiencebacked judgement, strong design understanding and project delivery models. Andy was recognised in 2007 as a pre-eminent business leader by being awarded the WA Business News 40 under 40 top business leader. As Studio Director with over 20 years experience, Kate has advocated for high quality integrated play space design and child friendly cities. Kate possesses significant playground expertise through her design and oversight during construction of multiple playgrounds including St James Park, Yarriabillba Playground and Parramatta Foreshore Playground. Kate led the design of the Darling Quarter playground and delivery of the surrounding public domain. This project was a catalyst for the revitalisation of Darling Harbour with the playground becoming Sydney s most visited children s play space. Most recently Kate oversaw the design, documentation and construction of The Ian Potter Children s WILD PLAY Garden at Centennial Park. WILD PLAY is one the park s most popular attractions with adventure play and water play set amongst 6000m2 of garden space containing over 15,000 plants.

4 Kate Bishop, Senior Lecturer, School Of Built Environment, UNSW, Sydney Jason Geralis, Design Manager, Convic, Melbourne Mary Jeavons, Director, Jeavons Landscape Architects, Sydney Kate is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Her background in environment -behaviour research underpins her teaching and research and her particular area of interest: children, youth and environments. She specialises in the research and design of environments for children with special needs; paediatric facilities; and participatory methodologies with children and young people. Kate is Director of the Built Environment Interdisciplinary Learning (BEIL) initiative, Faculty of Built Environment; and Convenor of the new interdisciplinary (CYRN) at UNSW. She is also Co-Chair of the CYE for EDRA, USA. Kate has also worked in government and private practice before becoming an academic Jason is a Landscape Architect who over the last 24 years has accumulated a wealth of experience across a broad sector of the market. His project background is varied and extensive and includes the delivery of industrial, commercial, urban design, zoological, residential, educational, transport and environmental projects. The culmination of this experience brought Jason to CONVIC, where in his capacity as design manager he leads a team of landscape architects and specialist active recreation designers who have over the company s 20- year history have delivered over 750 community-based youth facilities across the globe. What attracted Jason to CONVIC, and what sets CONVIC apart is its design approach where community engagement and consultation are the key drivers for the successful and ongoing activation of public community assets. Mary as over 30 years of experience in the planning and design of children s spaces of all kinds and those which are accessible to children and adults with disabilities, including the Growing Wild Project at Melbourne Zoo, Bollygum Park, Kinglake and Merri Park Play Space. Mary has carried out important research and advocacy in the field and has written, published and spoken widely in forums in Australia and overseas. She is a specialist in strategic planning for open space, parks and play areas for local government and developers, Australia wide.

5 Zoe Myers, Lecturer, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, University of Western Australia Alex Pavlotski, Professional Teaching Fellow, University of Auckland, Auckland Pop Inn Bar, Museum of Possibilities, Daily Tous Les Jours, City Hill (c/-design Canberra) Daily Tous Les Jours, Museum of Possibilities. Photo: Varial Studio Dr Zoe Myers is a lecturer and researcher at the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (UWA), where she teaches in the Master of Urban Design, and contributes to research projects and design communication for State and local government authorities. She holds a PhD in Australian cultural history, in which she explored place and belonging, and Master of Urban Design, and has worked in both the private and public sectors in policy, planning, and communications. Zoe s current research is focused on how evidence-based and creative urban design can enhance mental health and restoration through connection to nature in our cities, suburbs, and neighbourhoods. Dr Alex Pavlotski is an illustrator, comic maker and anthropologist. A first generation migrant to Australia, he found that pictures could sometimes speak more effectively than words. This became an interest in crosscultural communication, art and embodiment and eventually a career in anthropology. Alex has conducted fieldwork with comic artists in Japan, the LGBTQI community in Melbourne, the accounting tribe in Australia and NZ and disability in Victoria. He is currently teaching at the University of Auckland and working on comics based on his PhD research into the international parkour. His research interest are: play, movement subcultures, neuroanthropology, visual representation, masculinities, systems design and reactionary identities. He is affiliated with University of Auckland in NZ and Latrobe University in Melbourne. Finish the day with a drink from Pop Inn Bar and enjoy the chance participate in Museum of Possibilities - a large scale, interactive art installation inviting the community to share their hopes and dreams for Canberra s city centre. For one day only, as part of the 2018 DESIGN Canberra Festival, Montrealbased artists Daily Tous Les Jours will transform City Hill so that people of all ages can have their say about the future of their CBD. Everyone is invited to participate in this unique, creative and democratic exercise, or to simply relax and enjoy the spectacle. Museum of Possibilities is supported by the ACT Government through the City Renewal Authority s City Grants Program.

6 SPEAKERS: DAY TWO Annelise Safstrom, Director Urban Design, Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority, Perth Valli Morphett, CEO, CoDesign Studio, Melbourne Anne Malloch, Team Leader, City Issues, City of Melbourne, Melbourne As Director Urban Design at the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority, Annelise plays a lead role in shaping the design direction of exciting urban renewal projects that are delivering great places for the people of Perth. Annelise has a background in architecture, planning and urban design with over 30 years of experience across government and as a consultant in the private sector on projects across Australia. Her focus on urban renewal began in 1984 with the East Perth Project and continues today on such projects as Elizabeth Quay, Perth City Link and the Scarborough Beach Foreshore. There are a number of bespoke play spaces across these projects thanks in part to Annelise s continued passion for telling the stories of places and its people through urban landscape. The MRA approach is about delivering dynamic, authentic and sustainable places for people of all ages and abilities to enjoy. Annelise champions the experience of the end user and doesn t believe that play is just for kids. Valli is CEO of CoDesign Studio, a social enterprise that specialises in community led placemaking, creative engagement and play streets. Valli has extensive experience in delivering purposeful placemaking strategies, locally owned activation programs and meaningful place outcomes for diverse sectors including Government, greenfield development, infrastructure projects, universities and more. Valli is a gifted community facilitator and broad reaching experience running face to face and online engagement projects large and small. Valli has built placemaking industry capacity through Victoria and South Australia and has convened the Place Invaders placemaking peer network in both states In her spare time Valli is a pavement chalk artist and has delivered live demonstration chalk art for prominent festivals and events. Anne has over 30 years experience in social issues strategy. At the City of Melbourne she developed strategies to create and promote a positive late night entertainment environment in the Central Business District. Anne now has responsibility for the analysis of high profile social issues in the city, including city safety, illegal drugs, antisocial behaviour and neighbourhood safety along with the development of sustainable policies and strategies in response to these issues. From 2005 to 2007 Anne managed the pilot program in Place Management for the municipality. The program s focus was to facilitate outcomes to make places better. The team worked with complicated and politically sensitive issues, developed and maintained in-depth knowledge of particular places, the people, the environment and the networks. Anne has previously worked at Australian Drug Foundation, at Quit, and within the state Education Department in drug and alcohol related policy development and program design and delivery.

7 Troy Innocent, Senior Lecturer (Games and Interactivity), Smart Cities Research Institute, Swinburne University, Melbourne Benjamin Cooke, Lecturer, Sustainability and Planning, RMIT, Melbourne Dr Troy Innocent is an artist, academic, designer, coder and educator. His public art practice combines street art, game development, augmented reality, and urban design to situate play as central to the reimagination and cocreation of cities. In 2017 Innocent was awarded the Melbourne Knowledge Fellowship to research playable cities in the UK and Europe, developing new projects in Bristol and Barcelona. This approach is also central to urban codemaking a methodology he developed for situating play in cities such as Melbourne, Istanbul, Sydney and Hong Kong. Innocent s visual arts practice explores the language of digital code in works of works of design, sculpture, animation, sound and installation and has 25 years experience in gallery-based exhibitions, symposia and site-specific projects, including participation in over 60 exhibitions. Benjamin Cooke is a lecturer in Sustainability and Urban Planning at RMIT University in Melbourne. As a human geographer his research interests centre on humanenvironment relations, with a specific interest on nature conservation in the Anthropocene. Ben is exploring questions of equity, justice and politics when it comes to the greening of Australian cities, which includes the way humans and nonhumans navigate urban green spaces. Ben is also interested in the agency and affordances of plants in the making of urban green spaces, amidst questions of what species belong, where and for whom. Ben is keen to think critically about the implications of play and experimental governance for urban ecologies.

8 Simon Abrahams, Creative Director/CEO, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne Sue Giles, Artistic Director/Co- CEO, Polyglot Theatre, Melbourne Simon Abrahams is Creative Director & CEO of Melbourne Fringe, where he is recognised as one of Australia s arts and cultural leaders. Simon is a life member of Theatre Network Australia, an organisation he co-founded then Chaired from His work has focused on developing artistic programs which provide platforms for the work of young people, brave artists, emerging artforms and big ideas. Simon is best known for creating transformational artistic and strategic frameworks for organisations including Polyglot Theatre, the Wheeler Centre, Arts Centre Melbourne, and Gasworks Arts Park. He currently sits on the Victorian Government s Ministerial Council for Volunteering and the Theatre Panel for the Helpmann Awards, and is an Australian ISPA Fellow ( ). In 2014, Simon was awarded a CHASS Australia Prize for leadership and in 2016, Simon was hilariously and inexplicably named as one of Executive Style s Best Dressed Men in Australia. Sue Giles has been Artistic Director of Polyglot Theatre since Polyglot has an international reputation for contemporary art works that engage in unique ways with children to create experiences that combine theatre, play and visual spectacle. Sue s distinct child-centred creative processes have been the subject of masterclasses, forums and discussions including key industry events in in 8 countries. Her works have been performed in 15 countries on five continents in five different languages. Sue has been an advocate and leader in the TYA sector since 2003 and is currently Vice President of ASSITEJ International; the global association of theatre for young audiences. Her works have won 5 awards including the Green Room Award for Innovation in Contemporary Performance for Young People in In 2018 she won the Green Room Lifetime Achievement Award. Sue is the author of Platform Paper 54 - Young People and the Arts: an agenda for change.