What is the real value of a market? What does best practice governance look like? Could the Queen Victoria Market work as a co-operative?

This event is a fringe event of the New Urban Agenda conference: https://www.nuaconference.com/home.html

The workshop facilitators Jane Stanley and Elizabeth Cox and will be joined by QVM stallholders, community and union members.

Dr Jane Stanley is qualified in architecture, planning, social and economic research, and is author of the award winning textbook “Gnarly Planning: tools for local and global action”. She has worked with Elizabeth in mapping out the characteristics of 56 fresh produce markets throughout Melanesia, and developing proposals for improving selected markets in consultation with relevant traders and local governments. Jane is current President of the Australian Chapter and Member of the International Council of EAROPH (Eastern Regional Organisation for Planning and Human Settlements), the Asia Pacific peak body for the built environment. EAROPH has a significant role in developing and implementing the New Urban Agenda, and is a partner in the organisation of the Conference within which this workshop is convened. She is now based in regional Victoria.

Elizabeth Cox has spent most of her adult life living and working in the Pacific Region (Papua New Guinea and Fiji), initially involved in food production systems. She founded and ran a community based NGO in the Sepik regional capital of Wewak, which she continues to support. More recently she served as Director of the Pacific office of UN Women, and one of her important initiatives was to develop programs for improving the wellbeing of women traders in fresh produce markets. She has continued this work as an independent consultant and technical advisor to different agencies, now working from a Melbourne base.