Event title
- Creative Places Exchange: People and Place
Location
Date
- Thursday 30 April 2026, 09:00-11:00
Keynote speakers
- Cara Pickering (Head of Creative Places, The Audience Agency)
- Laura Drane (Head of Civic Engagement, The Audience Agency)
- Gemma Hicks (Senior Consultant, Communities and Participation, The Audience Agency)
Event details
This session focuses on the essential role of a people-centred approach to creating better places.
This means working with community-led organisations, residents, and in many cases, prioritising support and programmes for those most in need.
This event explores how different engagement methods can empower more inclusive, confident decision-making and meaningful relationship building over time.
Discussion will feature people-centred practice and how different approaches, from consultation to collaboration and co-production, are more than buzzwords and can be used purposefully and effectively.
The session features the following themes:
- Methods of engagement (from co-design and co-production to consultation and community led – what do these terms really mean?)
- What works (how ‘success’ looks different, project to project, place by place and with different participants)
- Learning from real examples (sharing where The Audience Agency's people-centred approach has been useful for local authority forward planning, cultural strategies, work in nature and more).
To book a place to attend this free online event, access .
Organised by The Audience Agency (TAA).