What are the innovative practices in community development that enable positive social change? Is digital technology changing the nature, context and practices of community development? Who should community development be working with? How does community development practice release the innate creativity of people? How can creativity enable community development to respond to diversity? What currently limits the potential positive impact of community development practice? In what ways is community development creating new spaces for disruption? How can we work across traditional boundaries to create new opportunities for positive social change? Whose future are we imagining?

Where are we working to effect positive social change? What is ‘place’ in modern community development? How does forced migration affect our understanding of place? How have digital technologies influenced the way people think about and experience ‘place’? How have digital technologies affected community development practices and what are the innovative ways in which community development has utilised these for positive social change? How do community development practitioners influence the built environment? How can community development contribute to a more sustainable human civilisation?

How is community development influencing social change? How is power understood and does this enable practitioners to negotiate the complexities of modern community development practice? What are the theories informing our practice and are these enabling us to respond to social injustices? What are the innovations in community education that ensure students are able to understand and challenge social injustices? What are the innovative ways in which community development practitioners work with people to harness their power and challenge for positive social change? Does community development practice maintain or address inequality? How do we ensure that community decision making does not disadvantage vulnerable minorities?