Place Agency explores the ways in which design can elevate social impact. In each episode, host Angelique Edmonds is joined by a pair of conversation partners exploring how we can enhance social value through the design process. Season two focuses on why relationships matter in social value creation for the built environment, with conversations spanning four themes: Country, Care, Collective Action, and Commercial. Each theme is presented in two parts.
Collective Action with Justine Clark AM + Cara Wood – Part 2
How do you keep a collective alive? Justine and Cara tackle the harder side of collective action — sustaining momentum, holding difference in the room, navigating tokenism, and the role of trust and money. They close with a powerful conversation about lived experience, inclusion, and why negotiation and curiosity are fundamental to change.
30 Apr 2026
Collective Action with Justine Clark AM + Cara Wood – Part 1
Justine Clark AM and social scientist Cara Wood discuss how they each built collectives that create lasting change. From Parlour's two decades of advocacy in architecture to Cara's systems-change work across community, government, and industry, this is a masterclass in gathering people with purpose.
29 Apr 2026
Country with Deborah Swan + Sian Hromek – Part 2
The yarn continues as Auntie Deb and Sian go deeper into cultural mapping, consultation protocols, and the rights frameworks that should guide engagement with Indigenous knowledge. They explore what respectful collaboration looks like in practice and what the future built environment could be if country is centred.
29 Apr 2026
Country with Auntie Deborah Swan + Sian Hromek – Part 1
Auntie Deb Swan and Sian Hromek join Angelique for a yarn on why country must be the starting place for design. They share the origins of the Firesticks Alliance, what land stewardship can teach the built environment, and how the Connecting with Country framework is shifting practice. A grounding conversation for the entire series.
28 Apr 2026
Care with Georgina Blix + Anthony Clarke – Part 2
Georgina and Anthony return to dig into their current projects and the harder questions around care in practice. From designing for Huntington's disease to using wellbeing data to advocate for better housing, they explore what it takes to hold space for vulnerability, maintain integrity with sensitive data, and forecast the value of care.
28 Apr 2026
Care with Georgina Blix + Anthony Clarke — Part 1
Two highly attuned practitioners talk about what it really means to design with care. Anthony Clark shares how working with families navigating complex needs reshaped his entire approach to architecture, and Georgina Blix unpacks her research-led practice designing for neurodiversity and wellbeing. Deep listening and emotional attunement aren't soft extras — they're the work.
27 Apr 2026
Commercial with Eilish McNab + Brett Pollard — Part 2
The conversation shifts to implementation. Brett and Eilish explore what it takes to embed social value from day one, using the Redfern Place project as a case study. They confront the barriers — time, money, procurement models — and look ahead to what regulatory and incentive frameworks could mean for Australian practice. A call for systems-level change, grounded in real project experience.
27 Apr 2026
Commercial with Eilish McNab + Brett Pollard – Part 1
How do you put a value on social impact — and who gets to decide? Eilish McNab and Brett Pollard bring deep experience from practice, research, and industry to tackle the commercial realities of pursuing social value. They unpack definitions, debate forecasting and attribution, and challenge architecture's material logic of value with a provocation: what if we framed what architects do as delivering user experience?
9 Dec 2021
Deep Dive: Diversity in conversation with Catherine Ramsay and Samantha Donnelly
Place Agency is an exploration of the relationships between design process and social outcomes. This episode is a deep dive into the role of diversity. On this episode of Place Agency you’ll hear from Catherine Ramsay and Samantha Donnelly.
8 Dec 2021
Deep Dive: Diversity in conversation with Emma Williamson and Nick Juniper
Place Agency is an exploration of the relationships between design process and social outcomes. This episode is a deep dive into the role of diversity. On this episode of Place Agency you’ll hear from Emma Williamson and Nick Juniper.
7 Dec 2021
Deep Dive: Diversity in conversation with Flora Samuel and Angela Dapper
Place Agency is an exploration of the relationships between design process and social outcomes. This episode is a deep dive into the role of diversity. On this episode of Place Agency you’ll hear from Flora Samuel and Angela Dapper.
6 Dec 2021
Deep Dive: Trust in conversation with Flora Samuel and Angela Dapper
Place Agency is an exploration of the relationships between design process and social outcomes. This episode is a deep dive into the role of trust. On this episode of Place Agency you’ll hear from Flora Samuel and Angela Dapper.
5 Dec 2021
Deep Dive: Trust in conversation with Catherine Ramsay and Samantha Donnelly
Place Agency is an exploration of the relationships between design process and social outcomes. This episode is a deep dive into the role of trust. On this episode of Place Agency you’ll hear from Catherine Ramsay and Samantha Donnelly.
3 Dec 2021
Deep Dive: Trust in conversation with Emma Williamson and Nick Juniper
Place Agency is an exploration of the relationships between design process and social outcomes. This episode is a deep dive into the role of trust. On this episode of Place Agency you’ll hear from Emma Williamson and Nick Juniper.
1 Dec 2021
3 - Social: In conversation with Flora Samuel and Angela Dapper
Place Agency is an exploration of the relationships between design process and social outcomes. This episode is a broad introduction to those themes. On this episode of Place Agency you’ll hear from Flora Samuel and Angela Dapper.
1 Dec 2021
2 - Social: In conversation with Emma Williamson and Nick Juniper
Place Agency is an exploration of the relationships between design process and social outcomes. This episode is a broad introduction to those themes. On this episode of Place Agency you’ll hear from Emma Williamson and Nick Juniper.
1 Dec 2021
1 - Social: In conversation with Catherine Ramsay and Samantha Donnelly
Place Agency is an exploration of the relationships between design process and social outcomes. This episode is a broad introduction to those themes. On this episode of Place Agency you’ll hear from Catherine Ramsay and Samantha Donnelly.
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