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The Excellent City Series: Designing Equity

Free!

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How do we design for intersectionality?

Whether we are aware or not, the fundamental principles that shape our city are based on a preconceived idea of the ‘average’ person.

Our experience of cities is influenced by gender, ethnicity, physical ability, sexual orientation, age, and many other factors. By celebrating these unique experiences, we can shape our cities to allow everyone to thrive.

The event will begin with an interactive exercise that will demonstrate the diversity of experiences amongst attendees. This will be followed by a panel discussion addressing the importance of inclusivity and intersectionality in achieving Design Excellence.

Designing Equity will address questions such as…What are your experiences of inclusion, equity, safety, and wellbeing in the city? How can we champion equity to influence change in our city? What does it mean to design for equity?

The City of Melbourne’s Design Excellence Program reinforces the city’s commitment to enhance the function, liveability, sustainability and public contribution of our buildings and urban spaces.

The Excellent City Series explores several key themes that shape Design Excellence in Melbourne.

Please note, the City of Melbourne will be taking photographs and shooting footage at this event to be used in future City of Melbourne promotional materials such as flyers, posters, brochures, website content and across social media channels.
If approached by a City of Melbourne representative who asks to take a photo or video footage of you, you will be asked to sign a Talent Consent Form. By signing this form you give the City of Melbourne permission to use the photography/video footage for the purposes previously cited.
If you do not wish to be photographed or filmed, please inform the photographer/videographer or staff member.

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Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.