Picture this: it's 2050, and Walyalup Freo has welcomed another 10,000 residents into its city footprint. There are homes for your kids, your mate from high school, that new GP and their family, and your mum who’s downsizing. We all live with a little less space, but there’s space for everyone to live well.

This fishbowl discussion takes place inside that imagined future. The Gentle Density Authority have come together to celebrate a job well done, and to prepare some advice for other cities who want to know how we pulled it off. You'll step into a meeting looking back on the tough trade-offs and bold decisions that transformed our port city, exploring what it really took to create more homes while keeping Fremantle vibrant, liveable, and deeply local. As the conversation unfolds, audience members are invited to jump into the circle and help shape the story.

It's easy to argue about the future we're afraid of. What happens when we start practising the future we're hoping for instead?

Join us after this session for a drink and a screening of Harry Cunningham’s The World’s Longest City on Perth’s urban sprawl and its impacts.