Emotions Count in Community Engagement

                      There’s lots of discussion about emotion in community engagement these days.   Maybe that’s because we’ve ignored this important component for decades.   Adelaide’s independent newspaper, InDaily, recommends, following an interview with me last week, that we “consider emotion in community engagement.”   The… Continue reading Emotions Count in Community Engagement

Tribute to Kevin Taylor from David Yencken

Kevin Taylor     Kevin Taylor came to work for Merchant Builders (a housing company that  Johnny Ridge and I had started) when he was a young man.   It was his first job.   He came with a strong personal recommendation from Wendy Sarkissian (then lecturing in Adelaide) who had taught him.   She… Continue reading Tribute to Kevin Taylor from David Yencken

Kevin Taylor: Tributes and Funeral

A great, humble and exceptionally beautiful man has died.   On Sunday morning, 7th August, Kevin Taylor, Principal of Taylor Cullity Lethlean, Landscape Architects, Designers and community consultation specialists, Adelaide and Melbourne, was killed instantly in a vehicle crash in Darwin.   He was 57.   His passing is mourned by many, many friends all… Continue reading Kevin Taylor: Tributes and Funeral