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Where It All Began | Shopfront Ep1 (opens the original)
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How did a small university program become a bridge between students, academics and communities for more than 30 years? In this first episode, we explore the origins of UTS Shopfront and the ideas that shaped it from the beginning. Through stories from founders, community partners and former students, we hear how collaboration, trust and a commitment to social justice helped create a program with lasting impact. From preserving overlooked histories to supporting emerging organisations, we learn t
The Harwood Approach - turning Outward | Mapping What Matters Ep5 (opens the original)
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What happens when we stop planning for communities and start listening to them instead? Bringing together the themes explored throughout the series, host Dr. Katie Blair is joined by community builder and youth advocate Giane Cole to explore the Harwood Approach - a philosophy of community engagement built on one simple idea: before we plan, we need to listen. Drawing on decades of experience working alongside young people and communities, Giane reflects on how genuine community conversations ca
Body Mapping - making the invisible visible | Mapping What Matters Ep4 (opens the original)
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What if some of a community's greatest strengths can't be captured in a survey, a spreadsheet - or even a map? If Episode 3 encouraged us to see the wider system, this episode invites us to look more deeply into lived experience. Host Dr. Katie Blair is joined by Dr. Barbara Doran , an arts-based researcher and educator, to explore body mapping - a creative participatory method that helps people express experiences, knowledge and strengths that are often difficult to put into words. Barbara refl
Life-centred Design - seeing the bigger picture | Mapping What Matters Ep3 (opens the original)
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How can we move beyond mapping what exists to designing the futures our communities need? Having explored strengths-based thinking in the previous episodes, host Dr. Katie Blair is joined by Professor Martin Tomitsch to ask a different question: what happens when we zoom out and understand the systems that shape communities? Martin introduces listeners to life-centred design , an approach that expands our focus beyond individual people to include relationships, ecosystems, institutions and futur
Appreciative Inquiry - starting with strengths | Mapping What Matters Ep2 (opens the original)
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What if the very first question we ask determines everything that follows? In this episode of Mapping What Matters , host Dr. Katie Blair is joined by social impact practitioner and systems thinker Mitra Gusheh to explore Appreciative Inquiry - a strengths-based approach that begins not with problems, but with possibility. Mitra reflects on how asset mapping has evolved from a radical, community-led practice into something that is often reduced to lists, inventories and data collection. Through
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