The project explored how abstract social values that direct cultures, societies, and policy can impact on-the-ground practices and responses for bushfire policy, planning, and management. Multiple contrasting abstract social values (identified in earlier research) were combined and drawn on to explore how these would be reflected in practice on-the-ground. Through a participatory process with local community members to the North and East of Melbourne, scenarios were developed that allowed members of the public to visualise and compare how values are expressed in policy and practice for bushfire. The value-based scenarios enabled critical reflection and comparison that was accessible to members of the public.
First, the value-based scenarios successfully allowed values to be untangled and visualized in approaches to natural disaster management. Second, the research provides an opportunity for further exploring how communities and policy makers can come together to find an ideal scenario for approaching natural disaster management and how to balance the core values that underpinned the scenarios for application to policy and planning.
The scenarios were made in: 2016
The scenarios look out to:
