Placemaking Sandbox Emergent Approaches, Techniques and Practices to Create More Thriving Places

Dr Iderlina Mateo-Babiano is Senior Lecturer in urban planning at the University of Melbourne. An architect, urban planner and transport planner by training, she teaches and coordinates the subjects Urban Design for People and Places, Place Making for The Built Environment and Cities without Slums. She is part of the collaborative Place Agency organisation—an award-winning group of academics and placemakers delivering education programs focused on placemaking theory and practice.

Dr Kelum Palipane is Lecturer in Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, University of Melbourne. Through her research and teaching, Kelum investigates how creative ethnographic methods can inform design in demographically complex urban conditions. Prior research has included developing a design framework that would help retain and foster the placemaking practices of multicultural communities in urban regeneration projects.