Kris Kelly-Frère

Kris has staked his career on the idea that people will rise to the challenge if asked the right question. Currently supporting the transformation of a regional recreation centre into a next generation social infrastructure hub and movement, he also leads a hybrid public health research project and social innovation lab called the Vivo Play project. It’s about using play to transform our communities into healthier, more connected ones. He's primarily interested in the craft of leadership and the development of adaptive and resilient communities.

“Biologists call the kinds of landscape our city sits in an ecotone – the transition between two very different biological communities. In this place if you add water you get something like a forest, if you don’t you get grassland – both are equally complex. These places of transition are often more diverse and complicated and hard to understand, they are also full of possibility and incredibly adaptive to forces of change. They contain more seeds of possibility from every side. I think this is the story I tell myself also about the city and the people who live here.’