What can nature teach us if we really stop and listen? Swimmable Birrarung Lead Convener, Charity Mosienyane, reflects on a day spent by the river with the Regen Melbourne team and environmental educator Dr. Maya Ward. 

Four months into his role as Regen Melbourne’s Policy and New Urban Governance Lead, Joel Backwell is increasingly optimistic about the untapped potential of our city and its people. He reflects on Melbourne’s history as a beacon for democratic innovation, and how declining trust in government and political institutions can (and should) help us innovate new forms of democratic participation. 

Regen Melbourne’s Collaboration and Investment Lead Joshua Devine shares how his experience in the world of impact finance – from attending COP29 to time spent in the Indigenous business sector – helps inform his work developing new approaches to systemic investment.

What could Greater Melbourne look like in 2055 if Regen Melbourne and Infrastructure Victoria put our heads together? Our Director of Systems Lab Alison Whitten slips on her Doughnut-shaped glasses to submit a formal response to ‘Infrastructure Victoria’s Draft 30-year Strategy’. 

You’ve probably heard of a ‘Moonshot’, but how about an ‘Earthshot’? This year, Regen Melbourne is thrilled to (re)introduce our trio of wildly ambitious Earthshots – three interventions we believe will help us unlock systemic transformation across Greater Melbourne. Here, Nicole Barling-Luke explains why they’re imperative to our work.  

Imagine if our streets were designed to bring joy, connection and community action. Imagine if our streets were designed by us. This is the vision of Regen Melbourne’s newly-launched 300,000 Streets Earthshot. Lead convener Nina Sharpe shares the wildly ambitious thinking behind the project, and how it aims to transform Melbourne into a thriving, climate-resilient, interconnected and community-centred city. 

Globally renowned urban planner and mastermind behind the Barcelona Superblocks concept, Salvador Rueda, recently visited Melbourne for Design Week. While here, he hit the pavement with 300,000 Streets lead convener Nina Sharpe and a group of city-shapers to get a sense of Melbourne’s potential for transformation. 

Over the course of 2025, Regen Melbourne will publish a series of reports that summarise our initial work in New Urban Governance. In the first of this series, RM’s Collaboration and Investment Lead, Joshua Devine, reports back on our experiments with the participatory grant-making app Hum.