Codesign

Melbourne’s western suburbs suffer persistently high youth unemployment. One program is rethinking the problem through codesign and place-based interventions.

A community-centred project in NZ is helping rehabilitate a polluted but popular swimming river. Working collaboratively with farmers and addressing funding issues has seen widespread voluntary buy-in to fix up a treasured community asset.

Melbourne Water’s award-winning makeover of Dandenong Creek not only broke with tradition in ‘daylighting’ a piped waterway, but made the community a core stakeholder in planning it. Project lead Sarah Watkins on what made it a success — and why you shouldn’t be afraid of the public.