Look Ahead: Community design for Lismore (Meeting 1)
Event description
Look Ahead: Community Design for Lismore.
We know the problems. Now it's time for the Lismore region to focus on solutions and start designing the sort of town we all want to live in today and over the next century.
But how do we steer towards greatness if we haven't defined what that looks like?
Living Lab Northern Rivers is calling out for people in and around Lismore who'd like to imagine what our current spaces and places could look like as we adapt to meet future needs.
To make something brilliant, we need high-level technical expertise alongside lived experience from people in the Lismore CBD and its surrounding neighbourhoods.
Look Ahead is a series of community meetings and expert sessions made to kickstart this process.
Our job is to ensure the designers, planners, engineers and architects that drive this project are deeply informed by the ideas, dreams, values, and memories of everyone across our community who wants to participate in Look Ahead.
It's easy for planners or designers working in remote offices to generate future scenarios for a town like Lismore, but they rarely get it right, because the solutions aren't driven by the people that live there. Data is almost worthless without some level of local knowledge.
The Lismore City Council – with the support of the NSW State Government – is leading a comprehensive process to create a Community Vision and Blueprint, Our Time is Now, for the entire Lismore Local Government Area. Look Ahead operates independently of the Lismore City Council process. However, it will provide an important piece of work for their consideration, focusing on the Lismore CBD and its surrounding neighbourhoods, which sit in high-risk flood zones and have significant residential buyback activity.
In many ways, this is the most challenging area, because it's the heart of our community, so there's lots of complexity. It's also the best place to start, because the work we generate here will create future scenarios that'll be incorporated into the wider planning to come.
Together, we've got to produce strong and beautiful visions for the future that actually work. And the process is just as important (and rewarding) as the finished product.
So please join us for an upcoming session, and help us create a stronger and brighter version of this place we love.
Note that both sessions are the same, please attend one session only.
Both meetings will also run online at the same time. If you wish to participate online only, please choose the "Online participation only" ticket option when registering. We will send you more information and an event link before the meeting(s).
Places are limited and registration is essential.
This event will be Auslan interpreted.
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
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YOUTH WORKSHOPS
There will be two youth-focused workshops running at the same time as these meetings, where we will be working with younger people to share their ideas, dreams, values, and memories of Lismore.
5-12 years: Artist educator Cara McLeod will be facilitating an arts-based children's workshop on the Thursday and Saturday. If you would like to attend this section of the meeting (or you would like your child(ren) to attend this workshop while you are at the meeting), please choose the "youth participation - 5-12 years" ticket option when registering.
13+ years: We will be working with the Office of the Advocate for Children and Young People (ACYP) to facilitate a youth-focused workshop for young people aged 13+ years. If you would like to attend this section of the meeting (or you would like your child(ren) to attend this workshop while you are at the meeting), please choose the "youth participation - 13+ " ticket option when registering.
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CHILD CARE
A free child care service for children aged 0-4 years will be available at both meetings. If you would like to register for this service, please get in touch with us via email at livinglabnr@scu.edu.au and let us know which workshop you are attending and the name(s) and age(s) of the children that will be coming along.
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TRANSPORT
A free transport service in Lismore and surrounds is available to pick you up for the workshop and drop you off at home afterwards. If you want to register for this service, please get in touch with us via email at livinglabnr@scu.edu.au and let us know your pick up address and which meeting you're coming to
Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us at livinglabnr@scu.edu.au if you want to chat about how we can make this event more accessible for you. We're still learning about making our events accessible for everyone and welcome any conversation that helps us to improve this.
Image credit: Victoria King