Roland Postma Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, Wc, Za

Cape Town And Johannesburg

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… 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

South Africa

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

I am the lead on the Advocacy and Project front for YU and a steer-com committee member.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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… 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

Australia

I 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.

Globally

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… 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

Melbourne, Australia

This 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.

Melbourne, Australia

I 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.

First Class Honours In Urban And Rural Planning, Social Sciences, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Activities and Societies: Student-Staff Consultative Committee. Participating in the Thesis Stream: The topic.

Cross-Institutional Study (Postgraduate), City/Urban, Community And Regional Planning, High Distinction

Participatory Planning

Masters In Urban And Regional Planning, Urban And Regional Planning

In-completed