Community Education Resource
THI developed a PIA award winning online education program o build community understanding of the urban change literacy
This education program comprises of a collection of content modules that take participants through a reflective learning process, focused by a series of short, topic area specific educational videos and exploratory and reflective questions.
Video Creative
The creative direction is designed to be educational, concise, jargon-free, and visually engaging, using customizable hand-drawn illustrations to reflect local contexts. Focused on foundational planning principles, it addresses community knowledge gaps about the need for strategies like urban consolidation and housing diversity. Co-designed with councillors and piloted with over 260 community members in Cairns and Brisbane, 83% reported better understanding of these concepts through the videos.
Growing well in Cairns
Growing well in Cairns was developed to be part of Council’s community engagement program to develop its Growth Management Strategy and was implemented with its Community Panel of 350 Cairns residents. The individual videos assets are also being utilised by Council and Councillors as stand-alone content assets on websites, social media posts, pop-up engagement events and community workshops to educate the community on the key factors of growing well in Cairns.
QLD State Wide Resource
The full education program has also been translated into a public engagement activity now live on the Towards 2050 project website. This resource has now been extended into a state-wide resource by the Queensland Government, localised to 9 LGAs including both metropolitan and regional areas.