Roundtable design and facilitation for M2050

Background

The City of Melbourne is currently looking to the future and undertaking large scale consultation with the community (people who live, work and do business in Melbourne) to develop a vision for 2050, which will feed into the 2025-2029 Council Plan. Relative Creative is involved in various pieces of work including working closely with Aboriginal Melbourne to design and deliver a workshop that asks First Nations participants “Where do we want Melbourne to be in 2050, and what is most important for us to do now to get there?”

Opportunity for Futures

The City of Melbourne and the State of Victoria, continue to show leadership in providing opportunity for communities to engage in questions about the future. Further embedded in this is the work both City and State are doing around truthtelling and treaty. There are considerable opportunities for futures present within the project, from ensuring that First Nations people have a voice when talking about the future to the opportunities afforded through broad scale community engagement with visions of the future.

Approach

Relative Creative’s design methods use a series of divergent and convergent approaches to support open, structured research, challenge and test assumptions and analyse identified trends against desired futures, current futures and futures arriving, designed to suit the specific needs of M2050 and Aboriginal Melbourne, with consideration to the people participating.

Supporting our facilitation of the workshop we also attended the M2050 Summit and a People’s Panel session. All of the insights from this and an analysis of workshop outcomes were presented back to the client in a detailed outcomes report.