play for a vital and sustainable city · day one canberra, play spaces and possibility 9.15 - 9.45...

Centre for Creative and Cultural Research

Faculty of Arts and Design

Children and YouthResearch Network

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

9.15 - 9.45 Welcome and Possibilities of Play Cathy Hope, Coordinator, Play Creativity and Wellbeing Project, Centre for Creative and Cultural

Research, University of Canberra

9.45 - 10.15 Urban Renewal for a Playful Canberra

Andy Sharp, Director, Design and Place, City Renewal Authority

10.15. – 10.30 Morning tea

IMAGINE IF: AMAZING PLAY SPACES FOR ALL!

10.30 - 11.15 Making public play spaces Kate Luckraft, Studio Director, Aspect Studios, Sydney

11.15 – 12.00 Intergenerational Play Kate Bishop, Senior Lecturer, School Of Built Environment, UNSW, Sydney

12.00 - 12.45 Youth Play Jason Geralis, Design Manager, Convic, Melbourne

12.45 – 2.00 Lunch and West Basin Challenge

PLAY FOR A VITAL AND SUSTAINABLE CITY22 + 23 November 2018 The National Museum of Australia, Lawson Cres, Acton




PLAY SPACES AS SENSORY EXPERIENCE 2.00 – 2.45 Play, the Senses and Inclusion Mary Jeavons, Director, Jeavons Landscape Architects, Sydney

2.45. – 3.30 Nature, Wellbeing and Play Zoe Myers, Lecturer, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, University of

Western Australia

3.30 - 4.15 Adapting to Urban Stress: Parkour and Playing the City Alex Pavlotski, Professional Teaching Fellow, University of Auckland, Auckland

4.15 – 4.45 Afternoon tea

5.00 – 7.00 Pop Inn Bar, Museum of Possibilities, Daily Tous Les Jours, City Hill (c/-Design Canberra)

DAY TWO

PLACE MAKING AND PLAY SPACE

9.15 – 10.00 Successful place making in urban public spaces Annelise Safstrom, Director Urban Design, Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority, Perth

10.00 – 10.45 Streets as play spaces for all Valli Morphett, CEO, CoDesign Studio, Melbourne

10.45 – 11.30 Night and Safe Play Spaces for All Anne Malloch, Team Leader, City Issues, City of Melbourne, Melbourne

11.30 – 11.45 Morning tea

NEW MODES OF ENGAGEMENT IN PLAY SPACES

11.45 – 12.30 Playable cities and hacking urban public space Troy Innocent, Senior Lecturer (Games and Interactivity), Smart Cities

Research Institute, Swinburne University, Melbourne

12.30 – 1.15 Urban Ecology and Play Space Benjamin Cooke, Lecturer, Sustainability and Planning, RMIT, Melbourne

1.15 – 2.30 Lunch and West Basin Challenge

ART IN PLAY: CREATIVE PUBLIC PLAY SPACES

2.30 - 3.15 Arts, the Fringe and Play Space Simon Abrahams, Creative Director/CEO, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne

3.15 – 4.00 Play, Performance and Public Space Sue Giles, Artistic Director/Co-CEO, Polyglot Theatre, Melbourne




Dr Cathy Hope, Coordinator, Play Creativity and Culture Project, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra9.15 - 9.45

SPEAKERS: DAY ONE

Cathy Hope is the Coordinator of

the Play, Creativity and Wellbeing

Project in the Centre for Creative and

Cultural Research 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, Director, Design and Place, City Renewal Authority 9.45 - 10.15

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 experience-

backed 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.

Kate Luckraft, Studio Director, Aspect Studios, Sydney 10.30 - 11.15




Jason Geralis, Design Manager, Convic, Melbourne12.00 - 12.45

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.

Mary Jeavons, Director, Jeavons Landscape Architects, Sydney2.00 - 2.45

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 Children and Youth

Research Network (CYRN) at UNSW.

She is also Co-Chair of the CYE

Research Network for EDRA, USA.

Kate has also worked in government

and private practice before becoming

an academic

Kate Bishop, Senior Lecturer, School Of Built Environment, UNSW, Sydney 11.15 - 12.00




Zoe Myers, Lecturer, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, University of Western Australia2.45 - 3.30

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.

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, Montreal-

based 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.

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Alex Pavlotski, Professional

Teaching Fellow, University of

Auckland, Auckland

3.30 - 4.15

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 cross-

cultural 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.




Anne Malloch, Team Leader, City Issues, City of Melbourne, Melbourne10.45 - 11.30

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, anti-

social 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.

Annelise Safstrom, Director Urban

Design, Metropolitan Redevelopment

Authority, Perth

9.15 - 10.00

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 Morphett, CEO, CoDesign Studio, Melbourne10.00 - 10.45

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 2015. In her spare time

Valli is a pavement chalk artist and has

delivered live demonstration chalk art

for prominent festivals and events.

SPEAKERS: DAY TWO




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 co-

creation 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.

Troy Innocent, Senior Lecturer (Games and Interactivity), Smart Cities Research Institute, Swinburne University, Melbourne 11.45 - 12.30

Benjamin Cooke is a lecturer in

Sustainability and Urban Planning

at RMIT University in Melbourne.

As a human geographer his

research interests centre on human-

environment 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.

Benjamin Cooke, Lecturer, Sustainability and Planning, RMIT, Melbourne 12.30 - 1.15




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 2010-2017. 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 (2017-19).

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.

Simon Abrahams, Creative Director/CEO, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne2.30 - 3.15

Sue Giles has been Artistic Director of

Polyglot Theatre since 2000. 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 2015. 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.

Sue Giles, Artistic Director/Co-

CEO, Polyglot Theatre, Melbourne

3.15 - 4.00

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