REIMAGINING
AND REMAKING MELBOURNE, TOGETHER 

We're driving cross-sector collaboration for a resilient and regenerative Melbourne

Large crowd at the City Portrait for Greater Melbourne launch in a heritage brick venue with purple lighting
People swimming in the Birrarung River under eucalyptus trees on a sunny day
Wide view of a community gathering in a Melbourne park with circular ground art and picnic blankets
Group walking through native bushland near a river gorge
Regen Melbourne group making heart shapes with their hands at a community garden
Enthusiastic audience with hands raised at the City Portrait for Greater Melbourne launch
Community members sharing food on colourful blankets at a park picnic
Three people kayaking on the Birrarung River under a bridge
Presenter speaking to attendees at a Regen Melbourne City Portrait workshop
Participants collaboratively building a circular ground art installation in a Melbourne park
Colourful street art in Melbourne's Hosier Lane
Community picnic gathering under large trees in a Melbourne park

REIMAGINING AND REMAKING
MELBOURNE, TOGETHER 

We're driving systemic collaboration for a resilient and regenerative Melbourne

Our vision

MELBOURNE can be A beacon of resilience and REGENERATION

What’s the best version of Melbourne you can imagine? Can you imagine an urban river you can swim in; green, interconnected neighbourhoods thriving from democratic participation; and a network of local food economies nourishing us all? We can.

Can you imagine a city where our economy is in service to life, where residents make decisions on issues that affect them, where we measure the things that really matter and where knowledge systems serve our place? We can too.

Melbourne is often called one of the most liveable cities on Earth. But this liveability is not accessible to everyone, nor is it immune to the vast and urgent challenges occurring locally and globally.

Regen Melbourne is a platform for ambitious collaboration in service to the regeneration of our city. We exist to catalyse and drive the systemic change we need to ensure Melbourne can thrive for generations to come.

Earthshots

Earthshots for a wildly liveable future

Explore Our Earthshots

Our Earthshots are declarations of intent for our city: transformative interventions to ensure Greater Melbourne thrives long into the future.  

These three Earthshots represent three critical and intertwined layers of our city: our waterways, our streets and our food system. Together they capture the interconnections between our social and environmental challenges and opportunities. They unlock the potential of our place. 

Our Systems Lab

we're Shifting the conditions for regeneration

Our enabling systems are stuck, making ambitious change harder than it needs to be. Across Melbourne, money isn’t flowing in service of life, our measurement paradigm is stuck in the 20th century, our governance environment isn’t participatory and our research institutions aren’t consistently orienting new knowledge to place.  

Our Systems Lab is building projects within our Earthshots that help us shift these conditions to facilitate long-term, place-based regeneration. 

New narratives of Place

New approaches to defining social, economic and political narratives that empower local communities

Measuring What Matters

Holistic measures of progress that centre long-term social and ecological wellbeing in decision-making

NEW URBAN GOVERNANCE

Governance models that enable effective and adaptive decision-making in line with our current and future challenges

Systemic Investment

Investment paradigms that facilitate capital flows towards systemic activity in service of place-based regeneration

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH Ecosystems

Research and learning practices that serve the wellbeing of people and planet by centering collaboration and diversity

Our Approach

epic challenges require epic collaboration

Melbourne faces a web of interconnected social and environmental challenges, from climate impacts and housing access to inequality and declining trust. Systemic problems need systemic responses, yet our current system is not built for the kind of cross-sector collaboration this demands.

Regen Melbourne is our answer to this challenge: a platform for epic collaboration across business, government, non-profit, universities and the general public. Our approach draws on Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics framework, which identifies a safe and just space where people and planet thrive in balance. In 2023 we launched the Greater Melbourne City Portrait, a first-of-its-kind local model mapping Melbourne's progress against the Doughnut's Social Foundation and Ecological Ceiling. The City Portrait acts as our compass, and our three Earthshots are designed to drive our collective journey towards this safe and just space at scale.

Large crowd at the City Portrait for Greater Melbourne launch in a heritage brick venue with purple lighting