This document summarizes feedback from a course on urban design and placemaking held in Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia. It provides details on the course such as the date, number of participants, and facilitator. It also summarizes feedback from participants, who highly rated the quality of the program and presenter. According to the feedback, 93% found the content relevant, excellent, and meeting or exceeding their expectations. Participants provided positive comments about the course being informative, relevant, inspiring, and something all planners should complete. Contact details are provided for the urban design training organization that facilitated the course.

1. COURSE FEEDBACK
▸ Module: Introduction to Urban
Design + Placemaking
▸ Client: Lake Macquarie City
Council
▸ Location: Lake Macquarie
▸ Date: 26 March 2013
▸ Number of participants: 24
▸ Feedback received from 16
participants (66%)
▸ Facilitator: Andrew Hammonds
▸ www.placefocus.com
Charlestown, NSW, AUS

2. Walking Tour Ferris St, Charlestown, NSW, AUS
BROAD PARTICIPANT BACKGROUND
▸ Planning – statutory & strategic
▸ Open Space Planning
▸ Landscape Architecture
▸ Engineering
▸ Community development

3. Empathy Map, Lake Macquarie Course, Charlestown, NSW, AUS
YOU RATED US HIGHLY
▸ The average score for the
quality of the program was
8.4 out of 10
▸ The quality of the presenter
was 8.6 out of 10.

4. Place Proposal Preparation - Lake Macquarie Course, Charlestown, NSW, AUS
YOUR EVALUATION - RELEVANT
▸ 93% of participants said the
Urban Design + Placemaking
module met or exceeded their
expectations
▸ with 50% stating it exceeded their
expectations
▸ 93% of participants said the
content was good to excellent
▸ with 50% stating it was excellent
▸ 93% of participants found the
relevant to their job
▸ 100% of participants would
recommend the module to others

5. Place Proposal presentation - Lake Macquarie Course, Charlestown, NSW, AUS
▸ “Great, a course all planners should
complete it.”
▸ “Always kept things interesting. It was a
great course which made you think
outside of the box. To expand your
thinking of rules and regulation.”
WHAT YOU SAID...GREAT COURSE

6. Place Proposal presentation - Lake Macquarie Course, Charlestown, NSW, AUS
▸ “Good background in the
importance of place making.”
▸ “Good use of examples and
photo's, great to see what
works and what doesn't.”
▸ “Presenter generated very
good discussion. There were
great photos/real examples,
working on place proposals
broke up theory as did the
photos.”
WHAT YOU SAID... INFORMATIVE

7. ▸ Very good and relevant to work practice. I
found Andrew to be well presented and
an excellent presenter.”
▸ “Very inspiring, have come away excited
about upcoming urban design projects
and my role in them.”
▸ “Made me understand about place
making and made me realise that you do
not need to complicate urban
design/placemaking.”
WHAT YOU SAID... RELEVANT & INSPIRING
Macalister Street, Mackay, QLD, AUS

8. FEEDBACK DURING THE COURSE

9. WHAT COULD I DO DIFFERENTLY?

10. WORKSHOP IDEAS FOR THE OFFICE

11. Dickinson Street, Charlestown, NSW, AUSVictoria St, Mackay, QLD, AUS
▸ Placefocus: training and
information on urban design
and placemaking
▸ “We are passionate about
creating places for people”
▸ www.placefocus.com
▸ Andrew Hammonds
(0407466615)
▸ andrew@placefocus.com
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(Placefocus)
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OUR DETAILS