Monthly Meeting
Our next Monthly Meeting is on Wednesday 1st May 2024
This will be run as a "hybrid" meeting, meaning we will be in person in the Borrett Room at the club but also opening it up to members via Zoom. Click here a little before 7pm to join the meeting on Zoom or make sure you have secured your raffle tickets at the door and are seated before 7pm.
This Month's MC Barry Horn will start at 7pm sharp.
Online registration details can also be found in our Events Calendar before the meeting date.
Finding us at Moorabbin:
Agenda
7:00 pm ... Guest Presentation:
Presenter Topic: Fab Labs, Community and Circular Cities
Presenter: Damien Melotte will be online.
Damien is Strategic Design Director at Goodhuman and Vice-chair of the o2 Global Network for Sustainable and Regenerative Design. Growing up in Hepburn Springs, Damien ascribes his systems thinking and appreciation of nature to learning about ecosystems from a young age. An award winning Eco Industrial Designer, he completed a Masters of Design based on Cradle to Cradle, Team Manufacture and DfA principles. At this time Damien researched Australian Indigenous Knowledge systems, a lifelong passion, with projects delivered for VACL, FVTOC and now the Indigenous Doughnut initiative.
Damien held exhibitions across Europe and ran international projects at the o2 Global Network leading Eco-Innovation events in Milan and London. On returning to Australia, he co-created the World's Biggest Green Drinks, Urban Reforestation Docklands, and worked with consultancies including Thinc beyond and Huddle Design. Damien expanded his Digital expertise in Strategic Design, UX, CX and Service Design, developing Products and Service Systems, for Government, NGO and Enterprise clients - working largely in Sustainability, Health Technology and Design Systems.
In recent years Damien held a Design Executive role at CEV, worked in the Built Environment on Circular Design initiatives and gained Packaging Recyclability expertise with PREP Design delivering projects for FMCG organisations including OJI Fibre solutions. Damien led CE projects at Mt.Alexander Shire and Hepburn Shire, in partnership with Z-Net and Hepburn Energy. In 2023 Damien CoDesigned the Country Centred Circular Economy model with Paul Paton from FVTOC, this model has been adopted by Deakin University for their new Circular Cities Masters program and by Sustainability Victoria in their 2024-2027 Strategy.
Damien believes in the power of Connection to Country, Place based innovation, Open Source and Collaborative Business models working together can help drive transformation to Circular and Regenerative living systems.
And then ...
Presenter Topic: Chatty Cafe
Presenter: Glenys Reid will be in person
Glenys Reid M.Ed GAICD - Managing Director
Glenys was born in Melbourne, Australia. She grew up in Canberra before studying in Sydney, travelling to Asia, and eventually ending up in the USA where she lived, studied and worked for 15 years. She now lives back in Melbourne in the beachside City of Bayside.
After experiencing an unexpected period of social isolation in late 2017, Glenys began introducing Chatty Café to Australia in late 2019, in an informal partnership with the UK Chatty Cafe office. The national bushfires in 2019 and current Covid-19 pandemic has made it clearer than ever to Glenys that Australia needs its local communities to be encouraged to stay socially connected to help prevent loneliness at all stages in life. Glenys believes Chatty Cafe Australia can help communities achieve that.
Glenys Reid from Chatty Cafe Australia will speak to us about connecting with other people in chatty places - like our club-rooms.
Then...
We are going to have an extended interval with drinks and nibbles and an opportunity to have a bit of a
chat and generally socialise. We will provide light nibbles, tea, coffee and soft drinks. Feel free to BYO beer or vino.
And then ...
- Hugh Macdonald will deliver the President's report for this month.
- We will then get a report from iHelp, courtesy of: Bert Alesich.
- To wind up we'll have as long as you like to chat over Zoom. Please feel free to hang around; the socialising is good medicine in these stressful times.
and last but not least ...
The restaurant has been arranged for WAFFLE, a relaxed social get together at nearby Fong's Chinese restaurant. Details and maps will be available on the night.
https://www.melbpc.org.au/sigs/waffle-sig-wine-fine-food-lovers-event/
The meeting will recorded and subsequently published publicly.
See you at (or a bit before!!!) 7pm. Via Zoom or in person.
If you would like to submit questions for any of our speakers, you need to do so on the Zoom Chat panel.. All you need to do is join the 'Monthly meeting live' group and post there.
