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Other Books by Wendy Sarkissian
Creative Community Planning: Transformative Engagement Methods for Working at the Edge by Wendy Sarkissian and Dianna Hurford with Christine Wenman,(Earthscan Tools for Community Planning), 2010. Foreword by John Forester.
Creative Community Planning provides access to emerging innovations in artistic, narrative, embodied and technological engagement methods. Reflecting on a wide continuum of participatory practice, the authors explore the frontiers of community engagement within a fresh sustainability framework.
Leading planning theorists, researchers and practitioners in the field reflect with the authors on the many successes and challenges in engaging with diverse people in rural and urban communities. These conversations reveal creativity as key to enhancing existing engagement practices. Concepts and practical applications thread through the book, including community visioning, participatory research and reporting, conflict resolution, poetry and planning language, theatre, photography, film and websites.
Stay Close: How to Heal from Grief and Keep Connected to One Who Has Died by Wendy Sarkissian with Karl-Heinz Langheinrich. Foreword by Petrea King, Founder, Quest for Life Foundation, Australia. eBook published by Fearless Literary, 2020.
This powerful eBook offers us two unique gifts. First, it’s a story of enduring love and commitment. It’s also a guide to making and sustaining a connection with a loved one who has died. Wendy explains how to contact and communicate with your loved one, using her refinements of approaches developed over a century ago by Rudolf Steiner to open a channel between the living and the dead.
The ebook offers specific methods for recording your communications with your loved one. You will also read about the remarkable content of the 600 messages Karl sent to Wendy. When Wendy analyzed Karl’s words communicated over 20 months, she found they were about four main topics: acceptance, gratitude, forgiveness, and service to others (engagement).
SpeakOut: The Step-by-Step Guide to SpeakOuts and Community Workshops by Wendy Sarkissian and Wiwik Bunjamin-Mau with Andrea Cook, Kelvin Walsh and Steph Vajda. Foreword by Karen Umemoto (Earthscan Tools for Community Planning) 2009
Finding specific advice on inclusive processes for engaging a community in a planning or design process can be a daunting undertaking. The latest offering in the Tools for Community Planning series is the product of nearly two decades of successful practice by internationally acclaimed community planning specialists. It is designed to support veterans and people with little or no experience to conduct a wide variety of community engagement events with absolute confidence.
The book introduces the SpeakOut, an innovative, interactive drop-in engagement process. It provides hands-on, systematic guidance and detailed checklists for managing community engagement processes, as well as targeted advice on facilitation, recording and training. Five international case studies are included.
Kitchen Table Sustainability: Practical Recipes for Community Engagement with Sustainability by Wendy Sarkissian, Nancy Hofer, Yollana Shore, Steph Vajda and Cathy Wilkinson, 2008. Foreword by Peter Newman (Earthscan Tools for Community Planning)
Kitchen Table Sustainability, an award-winning re-interpretation of sustainability planning principles, offers a unique view of sustainability through the lens of community engagement. It takes sustainability out of the ivory towers of universities, government departments and planners to the kitchen tables of the world.
This practical guide distils decades of wisdom from community planning, engagement and sustainability practice internationally into a user-friendly and engaging book that is both inspirational and packed with hands-on tools. The core of the book is a bottom-up approach to participatory community engagement and development, referred to as EATING, that consists of six components: Education, Action, Trust, Inclusion, Nourishment and Governance.
Social Mix: The Bournville Experience by Wendy Sarkissian and Warwick Heine. Adelaide South Australia: South Australian Housing Trust and Bournville, UK: Bournville Village Trust, 1978. Introduction by David Donnison.
This book summarizes the first-ever research into a planned community whose guiding principles and contemporary focus was the concept of residential social mix. This mid-1970s research unpacks this “evergreen” planning theory in detail in a comprehensive study of modern-day Bournville, chocolate industrialist George Cadbury’s 19th-century “model village” in Birmingham, UK. Building on Wendy Sarkissian’s earlier historical research into the origins of the “social mix” theory, this ground-breaking study reveals that Cadbury’s guiding principles, embodied in modern-day Bournville, are as appreciated today as they were a century ago.
Housing as if People Mattered: Site Design Guidelines for Medium-density Family Housing (California series in urban development, 1986) by Clare Cooper Marcus and Wendy Sarkissian.
This classic text (still in print after nearly 40 years) distills numerous lessons from hundreds of evidence-based research studies into liveability in medium-density family housing (and similar housing contexts) into a set of illustrated user-based guidelines for planners and designers. It’s become a popular text for university courses in landscape architecture, planning, urban design, and architecture. And it’s the go-to reference for understanding the critical components of good residential design from the residents’ perspectives.