In November 2023, Regen Melbourne successfully launched the City Portrait for Greater Melbourne. Now, our focus shifts to using the doughnut to inform our work, inspire action, and catalyse change.

As Participatory Melbourne moves into the Organising phase of the SOIL methodology, Lead Convenor Caroline Sanz-Veitch pauses to ask a handful of close colleagues and collaborators how we might reframe (and re-name) the project to better capture the work and ambitions.

Director of Projects Nicole Barling-Luke explains how the different phases of Regen Melbourne’s SOIL methodology add up to systems transformation (or at least, how she thinks they will). 

At the Sustainable Living Festival in late February, Regen Streets Lead Convenor Nina Sharpe was invited on a stroll through Braybrook – and invited to consider what a regenerated Ashley Street precinct could look like with people and nature at the centre.

As the Swimmable Birrarung project readies to shift gears in 2024, Lead Convenor Charity Mosienyane dives into everything that’s giving her hope and energy for the year to come. 

Since forming in 2020, Regen Melbourne and a committed team of researchers, environmental advocates, Indigenous elders, engineers, entrepreneurs and environmentalists have been hatching a plan to make Melbourne’s Birrarung (Yarra) River swimmable. Now they’re ready to put all that research into action.

With the successful launch of the City Portrait for Greater Melbourne at the tail end of 2023, Regen Melbourne’s Research Lead, Alison Whitten, explains how we’re using research to take systemic action in 2024 and beyond.

Regen Streets Lead Convenor, Nina Sharpe, dives into how Regen Melbourne is working towards catalysing a wave of regenerative streets across Greater Melbourne.