Planning Institute of Australia NSW Division 2010 Awards for Excellence in Planning Scholarship, Research or Teaching
Category winner:
A Trio of New Books on Community Engagement from Earthscan, London
by Wendy Sarkissian FPIA and Eight Colleagues
The Tools for Community Planning Series is engagingly written and packed with practical guidance and tools. These books are important resources for planning professionals, community groups, activists, planning students and anyone aiming to facilitate engagement particularly within a sustainability framework. Three of the books are co-atuthored by six Australian planners: Wendy Sarkissian, Steph Vajda, Yollana Shore, Kelvin Walsh, Andrea Cook and Cathy Wilkinson.
Kitchen Table Sustainability: Practical Recipes for Community Engagement with Sustainability (2009) By Wendy Sarkissian with Nancy Hofer, Yollana Shore, Steph Vajda and Cathy Wilkinson
Offers a unique view of sustainability. The core of the book is a bottom-up approach to participatory community engagement and development, referred to as EATING, that consists of six components: Education, Action, Trust, Inclusion, Nourishment and Governance.
SpeakOut: The Step-by-Step Guide to SpeakOuts and Community Workshops (2009)
By Wendy Sarkissian and Wiwik Bunjamin-Mau with Andrea Cook, Kelvin Walsh and Steph Vajda
Introduces the SpeakOut, an interactive drop-in engagement process, and provides hands-on guidance and detailed checklists for managing community engagement processes, as well as facilitation and training.
Creative Community Planning: Transformative Engagement Methods for Working at the Edge (2010) By Wendy Sarkissian and Dianna Hurford with Christine Wenman and a foreword by John Forester
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.
All three books are published by Earthscan, London, and available in Australia through New South Books, Sydney:
http://www.newsouthbooks.com.au
or from Earthscan:
http://www.earthscan-usa.com/Books
Australian purchasers: please click on the links below to download a flyer for each book and for the trio of books:
