Creative Community Planning: Transformative Engagement Methods for Working at the Edge

Creative Community Planning provides clear access to emerging innovations in artistic, narrative, embodied and technological methods. Reflecting on the wide continuum of participatory practice, the authors explore the frontiers of community engagement within a fresh sustainability framework.

Leading planning theorists, researchers and practitioners in the field reflect with the authors on the many successes and challenges in engaging with a diversity of people in rural and urban communities. These conversations reveal creativity as key to enhancing existing engagement practices. Concepts and practical applications thread through the book, including community visioning, participatory research and reporting, conflict resolution, poetry and planning language, theatre, photography, film and websites.

Creative Community Planning provides clear access to emerging innovations in artistic, narrative, embodied and technological methods. Reflecting on the wide continuum of participatory practice, the authors explore the frontiers of community engagement within a fresh sustainability framework.

Leading planning theorists, researchers and practitioners in the field reflect with the authors on the many successes and challenges in engaging with a diversity of people in rural and urban communities. These conversations reveal creativity as key to enhancing existing engagement practices. Concepts and practical applications thread through the book, including community visioning, participatory research and reporting, conflict resolution, poetry and planning language, theatre, photography, film and websites.

Wendy Sarkissian holds a PhD in environmental ethics, has taught in schools of planning, landscape architecture and architecture and has co-authored a number of award-winning books. As a consultant focusing on community engagement, she has pioneered innovative planning and development approaches in a variety of contexts, earning her forty professional awards.

Dianna Hurford is a poet and planner who has worked for the past 10 years in the field of affordable housing and homelessness in Vancouver as both a consultant and as a research coordinator for a non-profit agency.

Christine Wenman is a community and natural resource planner whose professional focus includes governance, education and citizen engagement.