Articles and talks
Clarity, Connection and Collaboration : Visualising Legislation and Regulations
Mel presented this keynote on 14 September 2023 at the Legal Design Summit in Helsinki, Finland. The presentation was under the Beautiful & Better Documents & Visualising Information track. The talk covers our work visualising environmental law and a call to action for designers to take a systems and ecological design approach to our work.
Length: 21 mins. Note: It’s recorded via a mobile phone with thanks to Emily MacLoud from Portable Design.
Designing for Positive Social and Environmental Impact
This talk by Mel was for the Web Directions Summit product design track in December 2023. Mel covers Making Open and why increased transparency and public access to information about natural resource and renewable energy projects is needed now more than ever. Length: 20 mins.
Explaining open government
For OpenGovWeek 2022, Mel talks with other Open Heroines about the challenges with explaining open government and shares the content Nook has created to support engagement. Length: 60 mins.
From Strategy to Stories
A visual whirlwind tour of Mel’s storytelling background and Nook’s work for the Content Strategy Meetup in Melbourne/Canberra 2022.
Mel’s talk starts about 3:30 minutes in - after the introduction from Angus Gordon of Weave Web.
Length: 60 mins
IxDA Sydney Talk: The Collaborative Craft of Content Design
Founder of Nook Studios, Mel Flanagan, on the craft of content design and examples of Nook's pioneering open government and open process work. Length: 25 mins.
YOW! Data 2019 Talk
Transparent Government: The stories we can tell with data
This talk by Mel is about Nook’s open government advocacy and showcases local and global examples of how data can be used for transparency, accountability, and engagement.
Using data narratives and participation to open government.
Common Ground is the New South Wales Government’s first community focussed open government web service, designed to help people easily access information about current exploration and mining activities in their area.
Revolutionary for its time and recognised as international best practice, we are often asked how it came about. So, we decided to write an in-depth article of the Making of Common Ground.
Igniting innovation in creative and cultural industries: How NSW can activate creative workers to help design the new generation of government services
This proposal was originally submitted to the NSW Government on 23 February 2016.