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.

ContentsList of Acronyms and AbbreviationsPoem and so we beginForeword by John ForesterPrefacePart ITraversing the Edge: IntroductionPoem practice is sensuous activity1. Why Traverse the Edge? Creative Underpinnings2. Practitioners Working at the Edge: Creativity in PracticePart IIInhabiting the Edge: Dreaming, Imagining and EmbodimentPoem ! remember! our shapes3. The Practice of Inhabiting the Edge: Interview with Wendy Sarkissian4. Community Visioning as Engagement: Why a Conversation is Merited5. Heartstorming: Putting the Vision Back into Visioning6. Acting like a Child: Welcoming Spontaneity and Creativity in the Aurora Team Development Workshop7. Embodying the Vision: Kinetic Community Engagement PracticesPart IIIStories from the Edge: Pushing Professional PracticePoem poetry | planning code-filter: all8. Learning at the Margins: Margo Fryer and Pamela Ponic on Deconstructing Power and Privilege9. 'And Action!' New Roles for Film in Engagement: Leonie Sandercock and Jonathan Franz10. Websites as Engagement Site and Story: Aileen Penner and Think Salmon11. Creativity and Moving Beyond Conflict: Michelle LeBaron, Norma-Jean McLaren and Nathan EdelsonPart IVThe Growing Edge: Creative Engagement Processes for Children and Young PeoplePoem the song will continue12. But They're Only Kids! Why Engage with Children and Young People?Part VBlurring the Edges: A Call for an Integration of Transformative ProcessesPoem !open up! (sound of :wall (blast)13. New Languages for Community Engagement: Translation, Language and Polyphony14. On the Edge of Utopia: Stories from The Great TurningGilt-edged ResourcesGilt-edged Resource 1: A Visioning Example: Our Bonnyrigg DreamGilt-edged Resource 2: The Embodied Affinity DiagramGilt-edged Resource 3: The Gods Must Be Crazy: Script and Instructions from the Safe Communities Scenario, SydneyGilt-edged Resource 4: Barefoot Mapping: Learning through the Soles of Our Feet: A Participatory Design Workshop for Youth in Airds, SydneyGilt-edged Resource 5: A Week with a CameraNotesReferencesAppreciationsSources for PhotographsAbout the AuthorsIndex