We’ve said it before, nobody loves a side hustle as much as the team at TF.A. Our Associate Principal, Nick Juniper is the person behind Freocast , a new online community radio station launching in 2023.
Nick and the Freocast team are hosting a shindig at the Naval Store to kick off the summer holidays and raise funds for the station. The event is being held on Saturday 17th December from 5pm onwards. Tix are only $15! Get yours here .
Our work on the Groote Archipelago Housing Programme (GAHP) won two awards at the prestigious Australian Good Design Awards in Sydney last Friday – the award for Social Impact and the Michael Bryce Patron’s Award!
The Patron’s Award is particularly special as it celebrates the best Australian-designed product, service or project and is awarded to the entry that has the potential to shape the future economic, social, cultural and environmental aspects of our planet.
+ our seven-years spent working with the Anindilylakwa people to improve life on the Groote Archipelago through better designed housin g. By working with community over several years, we were able to enhance built environment literacy and empower people to be proactively involved in the design of their housing.
+ in 2020, TF.A launched a series of evidence-based tools to measure a project’s social impact. By applying our ‘Social Return on Design Investment’ (SRODI) kit to this project, we confirmed that the shift towards Local Decision-Making enhanced feelings of community confidence, happiness and cultural safety.
The co-design process gave people the power to choose and the power to make decisions from their own mind and heart. Decisions we’ve never made before. Cherelle Wurrawilya, Chair of the Anindilyakwa Housing Aboriginal Corporation
The social impact arm of our agency is rapidly building momentum! Drawing on global best-practice, TF.A has put in place a suite of tools that enable our clients to measure the financial impact of their design investment.
Nick is passionate about the potential of good design to make a positive impact on the communities with whom we work. He has written widely on the topic , and argues for the need to broaden the way we measure the success of built environment projects.
He has studied the principles of social impact assessment and has been awarded Level 1 Associate Practitioner status by Social Ventures International.
Find out more about the purpose and activities of SIMNA here .
Associate Principal, Nick Juniper, spoke at the Association of Consulting Architect’s recent Money Matters forum about the tools and techniques that we use at TF.A to keep the practice ticking along… Read what he had to say here:
