Training for safer streets and better places.
Well-designed streets and public spaces shape the way we live, move, and connect. Investing in placemaking education and other Streets Alive training empowers communities, professionals, and decision-makers to design safer, more inclusive environments. By learning best practices we can transform streets into people-friendly spaces that support local economies, encourage sustainable mobility, and enhance overall well-being. Whether you’re a town team, community organisation, local government employee, advocate, or resident, training gives you the tools to create safer streets that encourage people to play, walk, wheel, ride, and connect!
Available Training Opportunities:
‘Streets Alive Training Course’
The purpose of this short course is to provide more information to enable you to:
- Understand why safer speeds and better places are better for everyone
- Prepare a Streets Alive funding application
- Be part of the change to help to make our streets safer and more community and business-friendly
The course is written for a general audience, rather than experienced transport professionals.
Method of Attendance–
This is a self-guided FREE online course accessible HERE.
‘How to Create Great Content: Digital Storytelling for Better Neighbourhoods’
Webinar: This webinar teaches you how to capture and edit digital content for story-telling. Great to use for capturing your Streets Alive Project story.
Can road safety really be on TikTok? Can Instagram be a tool we use to help redesign our cities? The digital media ecosystem is changing, and there’s been a rise in a range of educational topics, including urban design to transport topics. Excitingly, if done well there’s also a huge audience for this type of content.
The workshop hosted by Dr Julian O’Shea, an academic, transport expert and social media creator, who has been named the YouTube Breakout Creator of the Year and selected for the Skip Ahead program funded by Screen Australia. And Lucinda Hartley, an urbanist, keynote speaker and entrepreneur named as one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women by the Australian Financial Review.
- You’ll learn the basics of how to create great stories, filming and editing tips, with plenty of time to get out and about and create your own video. We will also share case studies and key findings from the 100 to Zero project, a digital storytelling campaign designed to improve awareness of road safety in 100 second videos or less.
You may view the recording HERE!
‘Beyond community consultation’
Tips for working with and enabling action by local communities
What lies beyond community consultation? Beyond co-design?
This course explains how professionals working in governments, agencies, charities, non-profits, consultancies, developers and businesses can go well beyond standard community consultation processes to better work with and enable action by local communities.
Community consultation and engagement are often talked about as though they are the same thing, but they aren’t…
This course is offered by Placemaking.Education. It is free for Local Government staff, made possible by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC). Please see the below links for enrolment and pricing.
Method of Attendance–
You can enrol in the self-guided course HERE.