SECTION 3: JUDGING PROCESS AND CRITERIA

The jury will consider each nomination against the criteria listed below. It is essential that your nomination addresses the criteria for the award category you have selected. The criteria for each award are detailed below:

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Award: Place Leadership

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Detail: Recognises significant leadership by an individual or a group who has made a contribution to the advancement of placemaking through raising the national and/ or international profile of placemaking

 

Criteria:

• Vision - Inspiring others to action through exemplary leadership and vision.

• Advocacy - Advancing the awareness and value of placemaking within the community through professional service provision, publication, community engagement, education and/ or research.

• Impact - Influencing positive change in the cultural, academic and/ or industry uptake of place making.

 

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Award: Small Scale Place Project

 

Detail: Recognises a specific project or scheme that has demonstrated best practice placemaking under AUD $200K

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Award: Large Scale Place Project

Detail: Recognises a specific project or scheme that has demonstrated best practice placemaking over AUD $200K

 

Criteria:

• Sense of Place - The project displays a sensitivity to the authenticity and local narrative of place.

• Systemic - The project displays a structured holistic approach to placemaking.

• Agility - The project displays an adaptability, flexibility and openness to change in response to diverse stakeholder needs and interests.

• Innovation - New and original ways of thinking and doing were applied.

• Value - The project demonstrates clear value for people and community by addressing inclusive and equitable social, environmental and economic outcomes.

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Award: Place Governance

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Detail: Recognises a specific model that has advanced excellence in the delivery and/ or management of holistic place outcomes

 

Criteria:

• Vision - Inspiring others to action through exemplary leadership and vision.

• Integrated Decision Making - The outcome displays high levels of collaboration and fostered new partnerships amongst stakeholders towards a co-ordinated shared vision of implementation.

• Inclusiveness - A diverse range of stakeholders were involved.

• Innovation - New and original ways of thinking and doing were applied.

• Resilience - The outcome displays strategies and mechanisms that support resilience to change.

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Award: Place Process

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Detail: Recognises a specific approach, strategy or program that has contributed to best practice placemaking.

 

Criteria:

• Sense of Place - The initiative displays a sensitivity to the authenticity and local narrative of place.

• Integrated Decision Making - The initiative displays high levels of collaboration and fostered new partnerships amongst people and organisations into a co-ordinated shared vision of implementation.

• Agility - The initiative displays adaptability, flexibility, and openness to change in response to community, public and/or private needs and interests.

• Innovation - New and original ways of thinking and doing were applied.

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Award: Digital Placemaking

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Detail: Recognises a specific project that has demonstrated best practice digital placemaking in a public or publicly accessible private precinct. Projects will be predominantly digital or technology-based and will be able to demonstrate a significant enhancement to visitors’ and/or communities’ experience in place.

 

Criteria:

• Impact - Influencing positive change in the cultural, academic and/ or industry uptake of digital placemaking.

• Innovation - New and original ways of thinking and doing were applied.

• Resilience - The outcome displays strategies and mechanisms that support resilience to change.

• Sense of Place - The initiative displays a sensitivity to the authenticity and local narrative of place.

• Integrated - The outcome displays an integrated approach between the aesthetic design and demonstrated function.

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The Place Leaders Asia Pacific Awards Jury will reach their decision by consensus. The deliberations of the Jury will include:

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• Consideration of the nomination against the award criteria.

• Development of a shortlist for each category based on information submitted through each nomination.

• For those who are shortlisted, the Jury may speak with at least one of the named referees to elicit further information about the merit of the nomination.

• Write up of the Jury findings, which will be announced at the Place Leaders Awards Evening and published on the Place Leaders website in March 2024.

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