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Abstract

Multimedia and Planning: Introduction

Digital Ethnographies in the Planning Field

Video as a Tool in Community Engagement

Using Participatory Video to Enrich Planning Process

Film, Space and Place Identity: Reflections on Urban Planning

Multimedia and Planning:Commentary

Acknowledgements

Graeme Dunstan is Australia's pre-eminent community artist. I thank him for his generous and passionate collaborations over 17 years and for his comments on this article. I also acknowledge the creativity, bravery and expertise of landscape architect Kevin Taylor, planner-urban designer Kelvin Walsh and artist Edward Car. Many of the processes described in this article are chronicled in the suite of five books, Community Participation in Practice (especially the Casebook), written and edited by staff and former staff of Sarkissian Associates Planners and published by Murdoch University. They are listed in the references.

Notes

1. The 13-minute videotape earned us many professional accolades, boosted our confidence and helped enormously in training. The video received two Australian professional awards and the project, video and the resulting Welcome Home manual were short-listed for the UN World Habitat Award in 1992 and 1993. The Urban Land Authority continued to use a somewhat less ambitious version of the workshop model with new land purchases in Timbarra and other estates for several years, with the videotape, The Beginning of Something, used as a training tool for the workshops.

2. The URLA was the ULA with a new name. It has now morphed into a different organization, VicUrban. From a distance, it appears that archetypal psychology and myth no longer play a conscious role in their planning processes.