Matt Novacevski
Biographic Data
| ID | 3518507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Novacevski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Novacevski |
| SIGNATURE | NOVACEVSKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6129-4028 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Practice-Oriented Research Is Essential for Transformation
Practice-oriented or practice-based research is growing in popularity in the social, built environment and health fields for its important role in driving transformative changes at policy, programme/service and practice levels. As planning is a practice with performative characteristics occurring in a socio-political-legal context, practice-oriented research has been utilised to inform and help shape change. However, to be truly effective, practi…
Right-to-place and disability justice
Being in place is a political statement of rights, citizenship, and spatial justice. In this article, we argue the existential-political connection between place and disability justice is critical to progressing the inclusive communities and cities agenda and Sustainable Development Goal 11 – Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. This is illustrated through our place-based participatory research with 97 peo…
Is the standardisation of public participation squeezing place from planning
Place and public participation are vital concepts in geography, urban planning scholarship, and practice. Yet the relationship between place and participation is wrought with tension. While place and participation have fused in generative, expansive endeavours that focus on belonging, stewardship and community, there is also evidence of place being squeezed out of participatory planning through the increasing use of standardising frameworks for p…
The makings of disability-inclusive sustainable communities
The right to inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable suburbs is an aim of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11, with a particular focus on addressing race, disability, class, gender and age inequality and injustice by the year 2030. Despite supranational interest in creating inclusive sustainable cities and communities, we still know little about what this means for disabled people1. In this article, we address this gap ––…
Planners’ Changing Relationships With Participation
Public participation is increasingly designed and facilitated by specially trained practitioners drawn from within the planning profession as well as outside of it. This shift is at least partially driven by the rise of new training and certification schemes. Drawing on exploratory interviews, and the example of the International Association for Public Participation in Canada and Australia, this paper highlights how these new forms of expertise a…
“Shared Language” Or “Straitjacket”? The Hidden Costs of Legitimising Participation Through Standardised Frameworks
In this paper, we examine how a framework developed by the International Association for Public Participation is used to frame and legitimise the participatory practices of local governments in Ontario, Canada and Victoria, Australia. We find the association of IAP2 materials with appeals to “best practice” raises questions about the potential consequences of the use of standardised frameworks for participation. While these frameworks encourage a…
Revealing Story and Healing Rifts
Placemaking has become a popular means of imbuing the public realm with vibrancy. Despite placemaking gaining prominence in settler-colonial nations, settler-colonial planning’s approach to place largely remains extractive and exclusionary, while little consideration has been given to the potential of placemaking as a post-colonial endeavour. This article explores the potential for a post-colonial conception of placemaking, developed through inve…
Pestilence in Planning
Literature can help us understand the lived experience of complex phenomena, the world and possible worlds as they unfold around us. Besides being a portal towards possible worlds, the spatial dime
The City Under Covid‐19
This critical commentary reflects on a rapidly mobilised international podcast project, in which 25 urban scholars from around the world provided audio recordings about their cities during COVID‐19. New digital tools are increasing the speeds, formats and breadth of the research and communication mediums available to researchers. Voice recorders on mobile phones and digital audio editing on laptops allows researchers to collaborate in new ways, a…
The City Under Covid‐19
This critical commentary reflects on a rapidly mobilised international podcast project, in which 25 urban scholars from around the world provided audio recordings about their cities during COVID‐19. New digital tools are increasing the speeds, formats and breadth of the research and communication mediums available to researchers. Voice recorders on mobile phones and digital audio editing on laptops allows researchers to collaborate in new ways, a…
Planners’ Changing Relationships With Participation
Public participation is increasingly designed and facilitated by specially trained practitioners drawn from within the planning profession as well as outside of it. This shift is at least partially driven by the rise of new training and certification schemes. Drawing on exploratory interviews, and the example of the International Association for Public Participation in Canada and Australia, this paper highlights how these new forms of expertise a…
The makings of disability-inclusive sustainable communities
The right to inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable suburbs is an aim of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11, with a particular focus on addressing race, disability, class, gender and age inequality and injustice by the year 2030. Despite supranational interest in creating inclusive sustainable cities and communities, we still know little about what this means for disabled people1. In this article, we address this gap ––…
The City Under Covid‐19
This critical commentary reflects on a rapidly mobilised international podcast project, in which 25 urban scholars from around the world provided audio recordings about their cities during COVID‐19. New digital tools are increasing the speeds, formats and breadth of the research and communication mediums available to researchers. Voice recorders on mobile phones and digital audio editing on laptops allows researchers to collaborate in new ways, a…
Pestilence in Planning
Literature can help us understand the lived experience of complex phenomena, the world and possible worlds as they unfold around us. Besides being a portal towards possible worlds, the spatial dime
“Shared Language” Or “Straitjacket”? The Hidden Costs of Legitimising Participation Through Standardised Frameworks
In this paper, we examine how a framework developed by the International Association for Public Participation is used to frame and legitimise the participatory practices of local governments in Ontario, Canada and Victoria, Australia. We find the association of IAP2 materials with appeals to “best practice” raises questions about the potential consequences of the use of standardised frameworks for participation. While these frameworks encourage a…
Revealing Story and Healing Rifts
Placemaking has become a popular means of imbuing the public realm with vibrancy. Despite placemaking gaining prominence in settler-colonial nations, settler-colonial planning’s approach to place largely remains extractive and exclusionary, while little consideration has been given to the potential of placemaking as a post-colonial endeavour. This article explores the potential for a post-colonial conception of placemaking, developed through inve…
The makings of disability-inclusive sustainable communities
The right to inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable suburbs is an aim of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11, with a particular focus on addressing race, disability, class, gender and age inequality and injustice by the year 2030. Despite supranational interest in creating inclusive sustainable cities and communities, we still know little about what this means for disabled people1. In this article, we address this gap ––…
Planners’ Changing Relationships With Participation
Public participation is increasingly designed and facilitated by specially trained practitioners drawn from within the planning profession as well as outside of it. This shift is at least partially driven by the rise of new training and certification schemes. Drawing on exploratory interviews, and the example of the International Association for Public Participation in Canada and Australia, this paper highlights how these new forms of expertise a…
Is the standardisation of public participation squeezing place from planning
Place and public participation are vital concepts in geography, urban planning scholarship, and practice. Yet the relationship between place and participation is wrought with tension. While place and participation have fused in generative, expansive endeavours that focus on belonging, stewardship and community, there is also evidence of place being squeezed out of participatory planning through the increasing use of standardising frameworks for p…
How Practice-Oriented Research Is Essential for Transformation
Practice-oriented or practice-based research is growing in popularity in the social, built environment and health fields for its important role in driving transformative changes at policy, programme/service and practice levels. As planning is a practice with performative characteristics occurring in a socio-political-legal context, practice-oriented research has been utilised to inform and help shape change. However, to be truly effective, practi…
Right-to-place and disability justice
Being in place is a political statement of rights, citizenship, and spatial justice. In this article, we argue the existential-political connection between place and disability justice is critical to progressing the inclusive communities and cities agenda and Sustainable Development Goal 11 – Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. This is illustrated through our place-based participatory research with 97 peo…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Citizen journalism (3 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Public participation (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works)