Creative Content
Alice is an Urban Designer passionate about designing sustainable, accessible and equitable cities. Alice's work has focused on urban design at the neighbourhood scale through built form projects, up to state-level creative industries work. Alice played a critical role in shaping the creative direction and visual content of Cities People Love from launch through to 2024.
Creative Content
Bec Fitzgerald is an Urban Designer dedicated to finding creative solutions to complex urban problems. Across the span of her career she has worked on a diverse portfolio of projects in both government and private practice and has gained a breadth of knowledge in the multi-faceted field of urbanism. Over this time, she has developed specialised expertise in three key fields – design strategy, creative strategy and design research. Bec played a critical role in shaping the creative direction of Cities People Love from launch through to 2023.
Creative Content
Carmel graduated as an urban planner from Melbourne University in 2015 and has experience in graphic design for architecture, urban planning and design. Since 2019, she has mainly worked with textiles and product design for homewares. Although she is no longer in urban planning, she enjoys creating graphics for the industry. She believes that good designs are those that are easily read and understood.
Community Engagement
Des is a multi-award winning community engagement and communication specialist with 25 years of experience helping government, the community sector and industry have meaningful conversations with their communities and stakeholders. As Managing Director of Renton and Co, Des works to deliver innovative and brave approaches to community engagement that enhance wellbeing, increase satisfaction and promote sustainable decision-making.
Web Development
Jack is a digital designer and web developer. His work focuses largely on the overlap between design, usability and development. His experience ranges from start ups to large scale projects for global companies. His work focuses on using design and technology to communicate and simplify complex information.
Illustration
Maddison is an illustrator and graphic designer/scribe who has worked with government, NGO’s and the private sector across various creative disciplines. He also works as an artist exploring the relationship between representation of landscape and Australian identity. He has a Bachelor of Communication Design from RMIT. Maddison is interested in the role visual communication can have as a tool for learning and engagement and aspires to make information clear and fun and to propel the voices of those who are often unheard.
Research Program
Rachel is a qualified sociologist and public policy professional specialising in policy-oriented research focused on equality in urban environments. She is currently Research and Policy Manager at the Susan McKinnon Foundation where she works to support evidence-based policy that is in the public good.
Rachel's sociological research has focused on experience and learning in public housing environments. Her current PhD with the Centre for Urban Transitions at Swinburne University examines planning policy and resident resistance to public housing redevelopments in Melbourne. With a background in social planning, community housing, homelessness, and community development Rachel's work is informed by a commitment to addressing the inequalities which characterise contemporary society.
Rachel designed and led the Cities People Love research program from our launch in 2020 through to 2023.