URDE2001/URDE5009 Participatory Planning
Assessment 2: 40% – Workshop Portfolio (Group and Individual)
Brief
Assessment 2 introduces you to a range of participatory planning techniques, which you can use in designing participatory programs (Learning Outcome 2: Explain different participatory practices). It also gives you a chance to practise participation, facilitation and negotiation skills (Learning Outcome 4: Apply skills in workshop organisation, participation and facilitation) and, finally, requires you to critically evaluate your own participatory practice.
In groups of not more than 12, students will plan, organize and run one workshop as a contribution to the stakeholder engagement process related to a topic relevant to urban planning. The topic will be provided in your group’s briefing workshop (held at least one week prior to your workshop). Your workshop will use a specific, established technique of public/stakeholder engagement.
As well as running one workshop, students will participate in two other student-led workshops.
Procedure
The process for Assessment 2 will involve the following steps
a) In the allocated week prior to your workshop, all members of your group will attend a briefing after the normal workshop time. Non-attendance at the briefing will result in your losing 2/40 marks for the assessment.
The briefing is a chance for you to get to know the teaching team member leading the group, discuss the workshop content and organisation, and allocate tasks and timetables.
Note: you need to read the instructions and special readings before the briefing, so that you can all be ‘on the same page’ in the planning stage. You will have extra work to do for those two weeks and the week following – make sure you plan your workload appropriately!
b) On the day of your workshop, you will arrive at the venue early to set up – make sure you allow plenty of time for this, as the success of the workshop depends heavily on it.
After your workshop is finished, you will stay on for a debrief in which your will discuss how the workshop went. Non-attendance at the debriefing will lose 2/40 marks for the assessment.
c) Following your workshop your group will write up an evaluation of about 1000 words using a suggested template.
d) Following your peers’ workshops you should write up a response of about 500 words each workshop (this includes workshop 1 – you will be required to research the technique as attendance is not possible) to the prompts published on Blackboard after the workshop.
Assessment
The assessment will be based on two things:
1. Your group workshop (10%)
2. Your workshop portfolio, containing your evaluation of your own workshop (10%) and response to your peer’s workshops (20%). The workshop portfolio should be compiled in one document and organised appropriately. An expected word count is 500 words per peer-led workshop, 1000 words for your own workshop (2500 words overall).
You should draw upon the unit materials – lectures, workshop activities, guest lectures, readings – to inform. your workshop portfolio (see the Reading List for some key texts). Other resources – policy research, web-pages, blogs, web-media – are encouraged provided they are used appropriately and referenced correctly.
Figures, images and tables can be used sparingly and only if they illustrate key points presented in the essay. Figures, images and tables should be presented in professional format (labelled, referenced and easy to read).
Use 11pt plain theme font (Arial, Calibri or Times New Roman);
Use Chicago Style. for referencing. See the Library web site: http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/referencing
The use of Gen-AI software for this assessment has been approved in the following way:
1. You are allowed to use Gen-AI tools moderately and solely to improve your English, and under two conditions:
1. You must declare in which sections Gen-AI was used and how (i.e., to improve English grammar).
2. You’ll have to save proof that you wrote the original text, and you may be asked to provide such proof.
For these reasons, you must:
1. Document its use:
• Screenshot/save all work such as prompts used, answers produced, how you edited the output, purpose of using it, etc.
2. Apply appropriate acknowledgement and attribution rules. This means:
• Include a declaration of use (see template in Blackboard)
• A declaration must be included in your assignment after your reference list. It should detail which tools you have employed.
• For specific details on how to cite and declare your use of Gen-AI outputs, follow the advice for the referencing style. used;
3. Unapproved, inappropriate, or undisclosed use may be dishonest or unfair behaviour, and therefore considered misconduct.
Marking Criteria
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Element
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Criterion:
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Weighting/40
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Workshop
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Your own workshop
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Attendance at the briefing
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/2
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Organization of the workshop
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/3
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Execution of the workshop
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/3
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Attendance at the de-briefing
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/2
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Portfolio
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Your own workshop evaluation
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Explanation of process
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/4
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Attention to detail
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/3
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Critical reflection
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/3
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Peer workshops
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Explanation of process
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/6
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Attention to detail
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/5
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Critical reflection
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/5
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Portfolio overall
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Control of syntax and mechanics
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/2
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Referencing
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/2
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Total
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/40
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