1. Navigating Community Engagement
Dianne Smith, Reena Tiwari and Marina Lommerse
Part I: Narratives on Models, Methodologies and Methods
2. An Ethnographic and Collaborative Model of Inquiry: Activity Centre Project in India
Reena Tiwari and Yatin Pandya
3. Capacity Building and Community Development: a Community Dialogue on Equality in Rural Uganda
Debbie Singh, May Lample, Mark Jones and Jaya Earnest
4. Urban Neighbourhood Regeneration and Community Participation: an Unresolved Issue in the Barcelona Experience
Carmen Mendoza-Arroyo and Pere Vall-Casas
5. The Port Resolution Project: Developing Community Built and Managed Visitor Accommodation Typologies
Damian Madigan and David Morris
6. Applying a Practical, Participatory Action Research Framework for Producing Knowledge, Action and Change in Communities: a Health Case Study from Gujarat, Western India
Clancy Read, Jaya Earnest, Mohammed Ali and Veena Poonacha
7. Inspired by Nature: Building Community Capacity Through Creative Leadership
Denise DeLuca
8. Connections: Academics, Architects and Community Pro-Bono Projects
Sarah McGann and Barbara Milech
9. Fremantle on the Edge: a Community Collaboration
Anne Farren and Nancy Spanbroek
10. Transparency and Interdependence
Salvatore Di Mauro
Part II: Unfolding Challenges and Removing Barriers in the Community Engagement Process: Opportunities for Transdisciplinary and Translocational Applications
11. Capturing the Diversity and Commonalities of Community Engagement
Reena Tiwari, Marina Lommerse and Dianne Smith
12. Joining Communities: A Role for Reflection
Dianne Smith
13. Reflections on Working with Communities and Community-based Projects in Bangladesh
Mokhlesur Rahman and Bob Pokrant
14. Action Preparedness Tool for Community Engagement
Clancy Read
Part III: Community Engagement and Capacity Building: a Transdisciplinary Perspective
15. Transforming Community: Opportunities for Transdisciplinary Application
Marina Lommerse, Dianne Smith and Reena Tiwari
ABOUT THE EDITORS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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About the Author: Reena Tiwari is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Urban & Regional Planning and Architecture at Curtin University, and Director of the International Cooperation Research Cluster. Her work focuses on the integration of urban development and place-making, with an emphasis on the importance of community involvement.
Marina Lommerse is a designer, educator, curator, researcher and strategist with Marina Lommerse Consultants, and an Adjunct Professor at Curtin University. She works with creative people and communities to strengthen individual and collective capacity and build supportive environments, mobilizing creative projects that promote positive change in communities, through publications, creative works, and curatorship of exhibitions.
Dianne Smith is an Associate Professor and Head of Program in Interior Architecture at Curtin University, and an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology. Dianne's research focuses on design for the cognitively impaired, the meaning of environments, the impact of colour on experience and our understanding of place, and design education.
