This report brings together key insights from a two-day, in-person urban live-action role-play event held in Carlton, Melbourne, designed to explore how neighbourhoods and communities might collectively imagine regenerative futures. Findings reveal that immersive play serves as a powerful modality for collective future-building.

This report invites you to explore the unique ‘reworlding’ methodology and its impact on urban design policy. It outlines how the work of the lab directly translates into strategies for teaching and learning, play design methods, policy and strategies for Melbourne’s future development.

This report provides a summary of the design, programming and research conducted at The Living Pavilion, a regenerative placemaking project which took place at the University of Melbourne.

Cities today absorb the bulk of the world’s natural resources, and their solid, liquid and gaseous wastes are often carelessly dumped somewhere in nature. But ‘environmental boomerangs’ are increasingly in evidence: In their own self-interest, cities urgently need to reduce their environmental impacts and ecological footprints, and to contribute towards regenerating damaged ecosystems.

Byron Shire, NSW, Australia, aims to transition to zero emissions within ten years in five sectors - energy, buildings, transport, land use and waste. This study investigates the potential of Geodesign to effectively map the shire during this transition. A contextual study of the shire's residential pockets is initiated using open source Geographic Information System...