Book Launch: The Psychology of Place, Edited by Iain Butterworth PhD

The Australian Fulbright Alumni Association invites you to a civic and cultural event to mark the international launch of The Psychology of Place: Rebuilding Sense of Place in a Post-Colonial World (Cambridge University Press).

The Psychology of Place provides platform for dialogue at the intersection of Indigenous perspectives on Country and psychology, liveability, climate change, architecture, urban design, and wellbeing.

The event brings together guests across First Nations leadership, academia, design, public policy, and civic sectors. The launch has been designed as a curated, participatory forum rather than a conventional lecture-style event. Knowledge Circles (or Yarning Circles) will provide a culturally grounded format for dialogue, reflection, and shared learning, consistent with First Nations approaches to knowledge exchange.

The event will enable participants to:

• Engage with the book’s central framing of place as psychological, cultural, and relational.

• Foreground First Nations perspectives on Country, custodianship, and wellbeing.

• Explore links between place, liveability, design, and population health.

• Participate in Knowledge Circles grounded in First Nations principles of shared learning.

•         Opening plenary conversation

•         Knowledge Circles facilitated by contributors

•         Closing reflections

•         Informal reception / refreshments

Please Note:

As per the attached program, we will commence at 4:00 pm sharp on Friday 17th July.

The event is fully booked, and we would be grateful if you could get there on time. Doors will open at 3:45 pm.

The venue is the RMIT Media Portal, Building 14 - RMIT University, 414-418 Swanston St, Melbourne.

We will place some signage outside the Swanston Street entry to the venue.

The event is scheduled to finish at approximately 6:00 pm.

After the event, refreshements will be held between 6:00 and 7:00 pm at RMIT’s Canto Caffe, which is located right next door to the Media Portal. We will provide signage and directions at the event.

Copies of the book will be available for sale (my sincere thanks to Readings Bookstore)