Future of Place

In this episode we hear from three PlanTech champions, each from differing sectors (public, private and academia), passionate about the future of the planning profession. Claire Daniel, Prugya Maini and Sacha Nicholls share their views on the role of digital and data in the planning process and the opportunity for planners, the capability uplift required and the good things ahead on the PlanTech journey. All three of our guests are representatives of the Planning Institute of Australia PlanTech Young Professionals Working Group.

In this episode we are joined by James Mant, Director of Places and Precincts at the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning in the Victorian government. As one of the nation's leading policy makers and advocates for 20min neighbourhoods, it is a timely catch up with James to discuss post-COVID musings on the relationships between people and place, and how the 20min neighbourhood model can be an underpinning of smarter and more sustainable communities.

In this episode we are joined by David Catalovski from GreenBe to share the latest approaches to community participation in our communities, and how the data gathered through emerging gamification platforms can enable the future of place.

In this episode we are joined by Anne Goodchild from the University of Washington to unpack the Seattle Neighbourhood Delivery Hub and discuss all things urban and micro freight and what it means for the future of place.

In this episode we are joined by Brad Chambers from Veris to discuss mobile laser scanning and how such an intensive and accurate data collection method enables us to create immersive place-based data sets.

In this episode we are joined by Jonathan Cartledge and Helen Machalias from Infrastructure Australia to discuss national infrastructure policy and the future of place

In this episode we are joined by Lisa Nisensen from WGI in Florida to discuss new mobility and the future of place

In this episode we open up with the idea behind the Future of Place project, and what the merging relationships are between people, place, technology and data. Lucinda Hartley (Co-founder of Neighbourlytics) joins us to share her most recent experiences with data-inspired city shaping and what we are to expect as the Future of Place project evolves.

In this session we share our goals for the Future of Place project, and where it can from. We outline some of the technology and data innovations and enablers that are intersecting with place, and how there are opportunities to shape the best places for people that are still yet to be realised. This session also provides an overview on the Future of Place Handbook - why its being created and how. Join us as we explore the future of place.