And everyone can benefit from visionary and inspirational processes to help design and create them.
Have you found that planning and creating great community spaces and involving people in decisions about them are a far cry from what you expected?
Inspired Places
Because you’re good at what you do, you want to create inspirational places in your community — parks, public places, streets, malls, squares, plazas, playgrounds and housing — that fit the needs of the people who use them.
Perhaps you’re familiar with some public place or housing that is architecturally interesting … but it just doesn’t “fit” the needs of local people who use it.
After it’s built, it’s is usually too late to fix design details that are just not functional. They end up being annoying to users … or very costly.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
You can create inspirational public places or housing that users will love. And even rave about.
I can help you develop planning and design briefs to make sure that your places meet the needs of identified users and user groups.
So you can develop places that work.
Inspirational Processes
Do you feel you could be more successful in the processes you use to engage local people about those places?
Successful community engagement processes can be critical to a projects success. But without the right experience, skills, tools and support, it’s easy for things to go off course. And getting it wrong can be painful and costly.
The good news is — I can help you get it right.
I can help you design inspirational community engagement processes with clear guidelines and checklists that make it very easy to deliver successful engagement processes.
And I can help you evaluate the success of your processes – from the participants’ perspectives.
I can even facilitate successful engagement processes for you.
What can you do now?
If you want inspired places in your community and successful
engagement processes that bring people on board, you’re in the right place.
My processes can help you design places that meet people’s needs – in direct and accountable ways.
You can design inspirational engagement processes to achieve those results — including engagement about strategies and policies, as well as for physical plans and designs.
You can develop your own tailor-made checklists, manuals and engagement programs.
You can access many excellent practical advisory materials.
Most are completely free.
Inspiration for the Future
is my offering: looking closely at our social, cultural and physical environments and providing strategic and practical advice and suggestions about ways to make them better – for all people and for all life.
It is inspiration to support environmental and institutional reform. My approaches are grounded in experience in a wide array of contexts.
In Inspiration for the Future I speak on behalf of the future of organisations, governments and communities.
I hope that the platform ofInspiration for the Future will encourage others to speak for the future and to blend their voices in a chorus of expert and thoughtful support for better community engagement and community development processes, better planning and housing and more sustainable and collaborative communities.
Not sure I can help with your particular situation?
Click here to email me and I’ll be delighted to get right back to you: wendy@sarkissian.com.au
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Inspired Places, Inspirational Processes
We all enjoy inspired places in our communities.
And everyone can benefit from visionary and inspirational processes to help design and create them.
Have you found that planning and creating great community spaces and involving people in decisions about them are a far cry from what you expected?
Inspired Places
Because you’re good at what you do, you want to create inspirational places in your community — parks, public places, streets, malls, squares, plazas, playgrounds and housing — that fit the needs of the people who use them.
Perhaps you’re familiar with some public place or housing that is architecturally interesting … but it just doesn’t “fit” the needs of local people who use it.
After it’s built, it’s is usually too late to fix design details that are just not functional. They end up being annoying to users … or very costly.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
You can create inspirational public places or housing that users will love. And even rave about.
I can help you develop planning and design briefs to make sure that your places meet the needs of identified users and user groups.
So you can develop places that work.
Inspirational Processes
Do you feel you could be more successful in the processes you use to engage local people about those places?
Successful community engagement processes can be critical to a projects success. But without the right experience, skills, tools and support, it’s easy for things to go off course. And getting it wrong can be painful and costly.
The good news is — I can help you get it right.
I can help you design inspirational community engagement processes with clear guidelines and checklists that make it very easy to deliver successful engagement processes.
And I can help you evaluate the success of your processes – from the participants’ perspectives.
I can even facilitate successful engagement processes for you.
What can you do now?
If you want inspired places in your community and successful
engagement processes that bring people on board, you’re in the right place.
My processes can help you design places that meet people’s needs – in direct and accountable ways.
You can design inspirational engagement processes to achieve those results — including engagement about strategies and policies, as well as for physical plans and designs.
You can develop your own tailor-made checklists, manuals and engagement programs.
You can access many excellent practical advisory materials.
Most are completely free.
Inspiration for the Future
is my offering: looking closely at our social, cultural and physical environments and providing strategic and practical advice and suggestions about ways to make them better – for all people and for all life.
It is inspiration to support environmental and institutional reform. My approaches are grounded in experience in a wide array of contexts.
In Inspiration for the Future I speak on behalf of the future of organisations, governments and communities.
I hope that the platform of Inspiration for the Future will encourage others to speak for the future and to blend their voices in a chorus of expert and thoughtful support for better community engagement and community development processes, better planning and housing and more sustainable and collaborative communities.
Not sure I can help with your particular situation?
Click here to email me and I’ll be delighted to get right back to you: wendy@sarkissian.com.au
Or ring me on 0402 966 284