Alastair
Wycliffe-Jones
Engagement Lead
MUP
Alastair is passionate about integrating all voices into conversations about the future.
Alastair combines knowledge of community systems with active listening and project management skills to deliver meaningful engagement that brings people together to create common goals for the future. Whether in digital or in-person space, Alastair loves to design gatherings that tap into the collective wisdom of community members.
A quote you love
“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” - Vince Lombardi
A book you love
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker
Something Alastair is curious about
How can we establish genuine and representative community engagement to ensure that the process builds learning and relationships and the outcome represents the hopes of a community?
Something that required courageous action from Alastair
Conducting research and writing policy recommendations during the early onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which made recommendations to major metropolitan areas to rethink how they use space - going against the conventional ways in which we have looked and used space in cities for decades.