Small Shift is engaged by Link Housing to provide community engagement services for its residents in Ryde, focusing on arts and cultural activities that communities can actively contribute to and be a part of. Following our first workshop, we will be developing an engagement plan to help further build on the community connection.
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Small Shift and Liveable have come together to work with the Green Building Council of Australia and develop a Green Star rating tool for placemaking. Taking an approach that considers both city-scale, larger complex systems; and small spaces and community interactions, we will conduct research, analysis, stakeholder engagement and provide credit recommendations that can support property developers to embed placemaking in a new building design and delivery in Australia.
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Small Shift was engaged by Hume Community Housing Association to provide community art facilitation services for its residents. Based on the community directions, we designed an interactive painting through which the residents can communicate via messages and drawings; and co-created a mural with the community through a workshop.
Often communities’ challenges, values and aspirations come out when they are working on a project together, not through formal surveys. The participants, who didn’t think of themselves as creatives in the beginning, inspired each other with techniques, ideas and stories, and created something that represents them. After we finished, we lined up the boards and stared at them in silence as if we had agreed to do so. It was an amazing moment.
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What we now call the Small Shift Model was first piloted in Darlinghurst in 2015-2016, when Julia Suh (Urban Toolbox) partnered with Rough Edges, a community café for people experiencing homelessness. The project had over 30+ participants including members of the street community and local residents who contributed to mural painting, street library set-up and gardening. The positive impact of the project was measured through before-and-after surveys, interviews, behavioural studies and social media responses. The learnings from this pilot project and Julia’s Westpac Social Change Fellowship informed the operational and strategic plans for Small Shift.
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Julia Suh was selected by City of Parramatta to pitch her idea to the Parramatta and the wider community in the Pitch for Good Parramatta program. She raised over $14,000 from the 30-day crowdfunding campaign to take the Small Shift model to Sydney’s west and implement a DIO project in Telopea. Small Shift is now working with the Telopea community, well supported by local organisations, to come up with great DIO ideas for the area.
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This project received support from the community and the City of Parramatta Council through the Parramatta Pitch for Good program.
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