Roland Postma Email and Phone Number
Roland is a young planner, multi-disciplinary designer, researcher and advocate.Roland currently serves multiple roles globally as part of his advocacy efforts to give voice to the emerging profession that is planning, especially around the twin climate and biodiversity crisis and the role of planning in our cities and towns. He currently serves as the Lead for Communication and Design and is the co-founder of Planners Declare and the interim Coordinator and Lead for Advocacy at Young Urbanists South Africa. He has a presence in both the global South and North through the private, public, academic and civil society sectors around planning.Australian Planners Declare that he co-founded with Brighid Sammon is a young organisation that is a response to the mega-sized climate-induced bushfires that took place at the beginning of 2020 across Australia. They have established themselves Australia wide with over 50 members where they will launch their first pilot projects to bring change and leadership in the planning industry. Roland is also the Lead for Advocacy and Projects for Young Urbanists in South Africa. In cooperation with the Board of YU, Roland has been responsible to help rebrand and restructure the organisation and putting together high portfolio talks and meetings to help foster change for urbanists in the Southern African country that is his birthplace. Also part of Roland's work is to write in-depth briefings for a local government audience across Australia to support better practices and understanding of the role of planning. Writing for the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU) allows Roland to connect to a range of stakeholders on issues close to his heart like environmental, participatory and transportation planning. Roland has previously undertaken an internship at RMIT where he worked with Professor Libby Porter as a Research Assistant looking at the sale of public land in Victoria with links with housing inequality and the provision of public housing. The research was published in The Conversation, The Age.Roland then completed his First Class Honours in Urban and Regional Planning where he undertook the thesis stream looking at how young planners transition from planning education into practice. Other interests for Roland are the role of the media and advocacy space to arm and aid progressive planners.He writes regularly for Planning News Australia and has been featured in different media platforms like the Age (Australia), The Fifth Estate and the Conversation and is a member of the Planning Insitute of Australia.
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Managing DirectorYoung Urbanists South AfricaCape Town, Wc, Za
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CuratorDesign Week South Africa Jul 2024 - PresentCape Town And JohannesburgI am acurator part of South Africa's inaugural Design Week to help define a program that includes local sectors like urban planning, landscape architecture, architecture, urban mobility, urban design and your usual suspects like food, furniture, arts, hospitality and more. I join the talented team headed by Founder Margot Molyneux and curator Zanele Kumalo. The idea is design should be accessible but also multi-displiniary and there needs to be platforms that is accessible across the city to… Show more I am acurator part of South Africa's inaugural Design Week to help define a program that includes local sectors like urban planning, landscape architecture, architecture, urban mobility, urban design and your usual suspects like food, furniture, arts, hospitality and more. I join the talented team headed by Founder Margot Molyneux and curator Zanele Kumalo. The idea is design should be accessible but also multi-displiniary and there needs to be platforms that is accessible across the city to grow and nurture the next generation of designers. Show less -
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Managing DirectorYoung Urbanists South Africa Jan 2022 - PresentCape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Advocacy LeadYoung Urbanists South Africa Jul 2021 - PresentCape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaI am the lead on the Advocacy and Project front for YU and a steer-com committee member.
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Co-Founder & Co-CoordinatorActive Mobility Forum Jul 2020 - PresentCape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaThe Active Mobility Forum (AMF) is a programme centred on the promotion of active mobility in Cape Town, Johannesburg and beyond. Active mobility can be defined as a transport based around human physical activity, such as cycling and walking.The main aim of AMF is to bring all the diverse voices around active mobility under one banner, to address issues like climate change and support healthy lifestyles that improve mental and physical health while simultaneously working as a catalyst… Show more The Active Mobility Forum (AMF) is a programme centred on the promotion of active mobility in Cape Town, Johannesburg and beyond. Active mobility can be defined as a transport based around human physical activity, such as cycling and walking.The main aim of AMF is to bring all the diverse voices around active mobility under one banner, to address issues like climate change and support healthy lifestyles that improve mental and physical health while simultaneously working as a catalyst for the economy.The AMF was founded in 2022 and arose out of a partnership between the Cape Town’s Bicycle Mayor (Sindile Mavundla) and the Young Urbanists – an established community of people in their 20s and 30s with diverse knowledge and passion for supporting spatial justice and thriving cities in South Africa.1Cycling, walking and other active mobility (in addition to investments in public transport) make an important contribution to tackling many of the key policy challenges facing Cape Town. The city is the most congested in South Africa, with both travel times and carbon emissions growing fast. The city’s own Transport Directorate has found that this costs the city R2.8 billion a year and lower-income residents up to 45% of their monthly household expenditure. Show less -
AssociateLgiu Australia Jan 2021 - PresentAustraliaI draft in-depth briefings for a local governments audience across Australia on a range of planning issues to support better practices and policies, particularly homing in on climate, biodiversity, transportation and participatory planning issues. -
Creative DirectorPe.Pl. Cult Jan 2023 - Apr 2024Globally -
Co-Founder & Communication & Design LeadAustralian Planners Declare Oct 2021 - Sep 2022 -
Co-Founder & Interim CoordinatorPlanners Declare Jan 2020 - Oct 2021Australian Planners Declare seeks to be positive but critical to help show how the planning industry can better respond to the climate and biodiversity emergency. Planners Declare will seek to support the planning industry in 2021 through these ways: I. Get the planning industry to publicly declare with tangible actions that we call "pledges" to show planning is not just about talking about what we would like to see normatively changed, but how to do it collectively. I… Show more Australian Planners Declare seeks to be positive but critical to help show how the planning industry can better respond to the climate and biodiversity emergency. Planners Declare will seek to support the planning industry in 2021 through these ways: I. Get the planning industry to publicly declare with tangible actions that we call "pledges" to show planning is not just about talking about what we would like to see normatively changed, but how to do it collectively. I. Expand our advocacy and partnership & outreach program to work with everyone to transition to a low carbon society. II. Expand the Planners Declare movement across Australia to raise awareness of the role of planners. Roland currently serves as the role of coordinator. Show less
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Research AssistantRmit University Nov 2019 - Oct 2020Melbourne, AustraliaThis is part of my placement in my Honours in Regional and Urban Planning at RMIT. Working part-time, I assisted Professor Libby Porter in the Critical Urban Governance arm at the Centre for Urban Research. I undertook a finer-grained analysis of selected sites and I prepared a feasibility analysis of the potential yield of sites chosen for well-located public housing. -
Slams Mentor At RmitRmit University May 2018 - Nov 2019Melbourne, AustraliaI was a mentor at SLAMS at RMIT. I volunteered two hours-per-week on subjects where I have scored higher than 75. Through this program, I improved and strengthened current critical skills of coaching, mentoring and building relationships with students in my cohort around the pedagogy of planning.
Roland Postma Education Details
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First Class Honours
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Urban And Regional Planning
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Roland Postma works for Young Urbanists South Africa
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Roland Postma's current role is Managing Director.
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Roland Postma attended Rmit University, University Of Melbourne, University Of Melbourne.
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