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Extreme heat is coming. How do cooler places actually get delivered? 🔸 Kar Gan (T.C.L): Breakout Creek 🔸 Natalie Gray (Cumberland): Cool Carparks 📅 Fri 18 Sep, 9-10am AEST 💻 Zoom | Free DM us your email to register. #Placemaking #UrbanHeat #ClimateAdaptation

Placemakers talk a lot about #activation but the real infrastructure is 'ownership', isnt it? Who gets to create, commission, host and lead? Courtney shows how Ipswich moved from programming for community to building conditions with and by community. 🔗 bit.ly/PL_2026summit

Ever run an engagement process everyone loved ... then watched the outcomes get 'stuck' internally? At the Urban Leaders' Summit (Port Macquarie | Birpai Country | 26-27 Mar), Stephanie Cascun is doing a practical session on this 'missing link'. Register: placeleaders.com/2026summit

A quick reminder - today is the final day to submit your nomination for the Place Leaders Asia Pacific Awards! Make sure you get your submission in before the deadline closes Tuesday 17 February at 11:59pm AEDT. Get started 👉 bit.ly/2025_Awards

🏆 The 10th Anniversary Place Leaders Asia-Pacific Awards close 17 February 2026 @ 11:59pm AEDT. If you delivered a project in 2025 that drove real place impact - culturally, economically or environmentally - this is your moment. Nominate here: bit.ly/2025_Awards

Place Leaders Asia Pacific Awards entries close 17 Feb at 11:50pm - enter now! 🔗 bit.ly/2025_Awards 👉 Just like the best places are for everyone, so are these Awards - whether you're in the public, private, or community sector, if you’re creating places - you belong here!

We're so pleased to welcome Brooke Williams, Director at FourFold Studio as a speaker at the Place Leaders Asia Pacific Urban Leaders' Summit & Awards in Port Macquarie, Birpai Country (core days Thu 26 & Fri 27 March bit.ly/PL_2026summit

At Auckland Waterfront, Taylor Cullity Lethlean (T.C.L) designed a place that works socially & economically and we're excited to welcome Lisa Howard to the 2026 Place Leaders Summit & Awards in Port Macquarie, Birpai Country (core days Thu 26 & Fri 27 Mar) bit.ly/PL_2026summit

Chris Patfield is the Place Manager for Parramatta Square, featured in this weeks' SMH (📰 bit.ly/smh_ps). We're delighted to welcome Chris to the 2026 Place Leaders Asia Pacific Urban Leaders' Summit & Awards in Port Macquarie, 25-28 Mar 2026 bit.ly/PL_2026summit

🏆 Nominations for the Place Leaders Asia Pacific Awards 2025 open 29 Sept! Celebrating projects that put people first - from Ipswich’s cultural revival to Hong Kong’s Kwun Tong Free Space (1.5M visitors in a year). Awards Guide out next week! #Placemaking #PlaceLeaders

Join Us! We’re bringing together award-winning speakers from two of Qld’s most innovative councils for the 'Cities and Villages' Community of Practice. 🗓 Wed 6 Aug 🕔 5pm AEST | 4.30pm Darwin | 3pm Perth/Singapore | 3.30pm Hong Kong 👥 Zoom | 60 mins | Free📩Message for details

Celebrating Country: What We Learned at July's Indigenous Placemaking Community of Practice. Attendees loved the way these three Award-winning projects - and the incredible women who shared them - revealed and respected Country. 🔗 Recap & take-aways bit.ly/PL_IP

Place Leaders Asia Pacific Membership for 2025–26 is now OPEN! Place Leaders is the region’s only dedicated network built by #Placemakers, for placemakers. We take you out of the 'classroom' and share practical and 'hands-on' place leadership in action. 🔗 bit.ly/PL_Join

Place Leadership in Action. Two award-winning 🏆 stories. One shared truth: community-led place transformation works. Read how Ipswich and Sydney are setting the bar: bit.ly/4n65tEi

Calling all place leaders - join the movement! Place Leaders Asia Pacific is the only dedicated alliance for place leadership in our region and 2025-26 memberships are now open! 👉 Join or renew today and let’s build the future of great places, together 🔗 bit.ly/PL_Join

Fantastic to see such strong registrations for the 7 May Place Leadership session - 52 organisations across four countries so far! Looking forward to a powerful conversation on what place leadership looks like in action! 💬🌏 #placemaking #leadership #community #urbanideas

🏆 Just announced! Join our next Place Leaders Asia Pacific Community of Practice on 7 May to hear from Award winners Erin Marchant (Ipswich City Council) and Anita Mitchell (Placemaking NSW) as they share how place leadership is transforming places across the region.

This is where placemaking innovation happens! The 2025 Urban Leaders’ Summit brings together experts, visionary leaders, and hands-on experiences to build more resilient, people-focused cities. Don't miss your chance to be part of it! Full details here🔗bit.ly/PLA_2025Summit

Let’s recognise the people who make places better for everyone. 📅 NOMINATIONS CLOSE: 17 FEB 2025 🏆 AWARDS EVENING: 3 APR 2025 🔗 Visit the Awards Page bit.ly/PLAwards2024