Melbourne’s City Portrait: Identifying Metrics for the Melbourne Doughnut

Come along and hear from the RM team and Sarah Beattie-Smith (from RM partner Point Advisory) about the City Portrait process and how you can get involved!  

This online forum will include a short presentation outlining the City Portrait process and a discussion of indicators, followed by Q&A and a facilitated workshop to surface all the insights across the network. 

Our goal in this session is to crowdsource indicators for the Melbourne Doughnut and begin planning the next phase of research. We know there are a lot of indicators already out there to help us track our progress onto Melbourne’s Doughnut, and we need your support in finding them!

About the City Portrait process 
In late 2020 the Regen Melbourne (RM) community kicked off the “Towards a Regenerative Melbourne” research process. This led to the co-creation of our vision, our Melbourne Doughnut and a roadmap of action for our community.  It was also the start of a City Portrait process that uses the Doughnut Economics methodology to localise the model to our city. 

The next phase of this City Portrait process is to begin identifying existing metrics in our city and mapping these to the Melbourne Doughnut. This phase will be the starting point for a longer process that will include the establishment of thematic expert groups and open public forums. This mapping phase of research will act as a bridge from the Towards a Regenerative Melbourne report released last year to the mature City Portrait work to come.

For this phase of the research, the major questions are:

• What indicators of progress are currently used by State and Local governments (and any other actors) and how can these be mapped to the Melbourne Doughnut?
• What alternative measures of progress (indicators) exist in each element represented in the Melbourne Doughnut (here, or anywhere around the world)?