Two inspirational workshops with David Engwicht

Learn to tame your fiercest Place Making tigers

Day One: Art of Place Making
Learn twelve secrets to creating vibrant neighbourhoods, prosperous shopping streets, and magical public spaces. Learn techniques that will save your city significant money and give your project an instant kick-start. Identify low-cost initiatives that will set off a positive chain reaction.

Day Two: Creating Resilient Cities
This workshop explores the secrets to creating resilient communities, resilient local economies and resilient local government organizations. The key insights will be applied to areas such as: community engagement, creative problem solving, place making, urban design, traffic issues (schools and residential streets) and conflict resolution.

Christchurch March 1 & 2 Latimer Hotel, Savoy Room, 30 Latimer Square
Wellington March 7 & 8 CQ Hotel, Cuba Room, 223 Cuba Street
Auckland March 10 & 11 Parnell Trust, Jubilee Hall, 545 Parnell Road
Time: 8:30am-5:00pm

RSVP: Register online

Institute Member's you are entitled to a 10% discount! Simply enter discount code: DINZ07wyg8i3

For an additional 5% book by: January 21

The Designers Institute is a proud sponsor of this tour.

About David Engwicht

David Engwicht is one of the world’s most innovative thinkers on creating vibrant public spaces. David empowers city officials and citizens with new low-cost tools and powerful community engagement approaches to tame traffic, create vibrant places, renew economic development, promote civility and build resilience. David is passionate about helping cities and people identify the ‘low hanging fruit’ – the small things that can be done immediately that set off a positive chain reaction.

These workshops are part of an international series of events. Cities or individuals are invited to bring real place making challenges. Leave the workshop with a real action plan. Cross departmental working groups are encouraged.

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