7DM - What's changed?

As part of the Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for the Wellard Village 7 Day Makeover, the City facilitated community audits of the project area before and after the makeover.

The Place Game is a great (and simple!) tool anyone can use to evaluate public space. The tool was developed by the Project for Public Spaces (PPS), a world-renowned, cross-disciplinary non-profit that shares a passion for public spaces.

The Place Game evaluates the overall performance of a place according to the four key attributes that make great public spaces: Sociability, Uses and Activities, Comfort and Image, and Access and Linkages.

We invited the Wellard Community to meet us onsite to complete a Place Game both before and after the 7DM. Once gathered onsite, and having had the process explained to them, Place Game participants were asked to split into small groups to discuss a series of evaluations and questions while moving about the space in question. They recorded their thoughts and feedback via the form included on the next page.

Following the Place Games these forms were returned to the City, and the results compiled for comparison.

The results of the before 7DM and after 7DM ratings are summarised below: