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Urban Minded: Designing Cities that Support Mental Wellbeing

Karl Dickinson -
Poor city design correlates with poor mental health. Urban Minded sought to involve young women, among those worst affected, in determining how planning can support wellbeing. Even a small space can produce a lot of...
Architecture & Design

Targeted Participation: A Toolkit for Involving Disengaged Groups

Karl Dickinson -
From targeted participation to making it fun, the Urban Minded project shows what strategies and activities really work to involve people usually excluded from engagement processes. “One of the pitfalls of citizen participation is that...
Editorial

How an Artist Will Improve Inclusion, Environmental & Communication Strategies

Michael Shank -
This article was written for CityChangers.org by Dr. Michael Shank, Director of Engagement with the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance. In it, he argues that it’s high time that creatives be brought in as a...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Taking Root: The Tale of London’s Transient Story Garden

Karl Dickinson -
London’s mobile Skip Garden was co-constructed by local communities from construction waste. Now named the Story Garden, it has finally found a permanent home. The Story Garden gives people in and around the busy King’s...
Architecture & Design

CityChanger Deborah Saunt: Decent City-making with Social Value

Karl Dickinson -
Co-founder of DSDHA, Deborah Saunt, explains how social value optimises the investment in public spaces, and why redevelopment projects are improved by random conversations. When Deborah Saunt was asked to design a landmark building for...
Housing

Denver’s Collaboratory Model for Solving Entrenched Urban Challenges

Karl Dickinson -
Non-profits in Denver have redefined the city’s understanding of chronic homelessness. Now their Collaboratory model is empowering people with lived experiences to design systemic change. Change-making can be a funny business. A lot of the...
Architecture & Design

Young Leader Luisina Perassi: Enabler of Child-Inclusive Urban Design

Karl Dickinson -
Understanding children’s experiences of cities exposes new opportunities for inclusive design. The trick is knowing how to properly engage them. Gold Coast transport planner Luisina Perassi has made it easy – even collating a...
Inclusive Cities

CityChanger Sophie Mirpourian: Creative Ways to Listen

Karl Dickinson -
Being heard makes us feel valued and identifies priorities for change, but municipalities struggle to do it well. CityChanger and creative Sophie Mirpourian tells us how her idea to use a portable townhall -...
Inclusive Cities

En Route to Changing the Conversation: How to Make Citizen Engagement Work

Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr -
How can you make authentic citizen participation work? Warren Logan, Policy Director of Mobility and Interagency Relations in the city of Oakland, has made a name for himself by not just superficially asking for...

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