{"id":377,"date":"2011-07-21T03:22:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T03:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/?p=377"},"modified":"2011-07-21T03:26:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T03:26:46","slug":"amc-learns-from-arthur-orsini-urbanthinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/amc-learns-from-arthur-orsini-urbanthinkers\/","title":{"rendered":"AMC Learns from Arthur Orsini – Urbanthinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aimee Ward (Otago), Arthur Orsini (Urban Thinkers) and Charlotte Flaherty (DCC)<\/p><\/div>\n

Arthur Orsini, Active Transportation Planner Stantec Consulting Ltd. in partnership with Urbanthinkers <\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Greater Wellington Regional Council held a series of workshops by noted school travel planning expert and youth engagement authority Arthur Orsini, the developer of Urbanthinkers<\/a>, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Charlotte Flaherty (Safe and Sustainable Travel Co-ordinator for Dunedin City Council \u2026 and an AMC Advisory Board Member) and I were lucky enough to be invited along for the proverbial ride.<\/p>\n

On 14 July we attended an all-day seminar by Orsini, \u201cAdult Facilitator Workshop in Youth Engagement\u201d, and were inspired.<\/p>\n

Arthur is a pioneer in his field, and has been developing innovative and effective youth and community engagement projects since 1991. His work helps local authorities support students and community-leaders become local champions for travel behaviour change. His secondary school program, Off Ramp<\/a>, received an OECD award for Sustainable Transport: Education and Youth in 2000. Arthur has worked and presented across Canada, and in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. He places particular importance on empowering youth to become peer-mentors. He has never owned a car.<\/p>\n

During the facilitator workshop, we performed planning\/evaluation exercises – hallmarks of the Orsini Model for Child and Youth Engagement<\/a> – as if we were the adolescents themselves, and found ourselves enthralled. Ultimately, the AMC aims to affect the driving and licensing habits of secondary-school aged adolescents through the promotion of active transport and transportation demand management (TDM).\u00a0 Thus, we have a keen interest in Arthur’s ability to capture attention and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders, especially youth themselves.<\/p>\n

Both Arthur and the AMC have similar long-term goals: increased child and adolescent health, TDM that supports lower emissions, a reduction in crash-related injury, and an overall travel environment that supports active transport alternatives. After meeting and working a bit with Arthur, these goals seem within closer reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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