Placemaking as a tool for community-led development - Community Building Block

Join Anna Parker (Inspiring Communities) and Denise Bijoux (Catalyse) to find out more about what placemaking is and how it can be a useful tool for advancing Community Led initiatives. We'll share two of the tools Catalyse uses regularly - their Participation Continuum and their version of Divergence-Emergence-Convergence as well as a couple of placemaking and Community Led Development (CLD) stories. You'll see how locals have used placemaking approaches to improve their place and also how we have used placemaking in our community work. There will be an opportunity for questions and also discussion in breakout rooms.  You'll leave with a better understanding of placemaking and have some practical steps to apply placemaking approaches in your place and in your CLD mahi.   

Anna Parker 
Supporting the growth of strong and resilient communities is at the heart of Anna’s mahi. Anna has diverse experience of grassroots community development – having worked on peace building efforts with indigenous women leaders in Bougainville (PNG) to activating the community-led vision for the Valley Project in North Dunedin. 

Denise Bijoux 

Originally from Taranaki, Denise is a visionary community activator with extensive practical and strategic experience in locally-led change, community building, placemaking, research and evaluation. Denise runs Catalyse Network is a member of the Aotearoa regional team of PlacemakingX. Denise was a recipient of a Winston Churchill Fellowship in 2012 and travelled through the US and Canada exploring the influence of CLD approaches on wider systems change.