Farnoosh Shokoofan - young people are 100% of future

Farnoosh Shokoofan is an energetic and innovative planner currently working as a strategic planner at Toowoomba Regional Council. She was awarded a Bachelor’s degree of Urbanism and completed her Masters of Urban Design in 2018. Farnoosh has worked as a planner both in Iran and Australia within various planning and development disciplines. She is the Queensland PIA Young Planner convener - responsible for leading the young planners. 

Born and raised in a ‘megacity’, Farnoosh is enthusiastic about people and places. Her interests include placemaking, behaviour settings and analysis of users’ behaviour, and natural disaster resilience, specifically landslide resilience. 

I chat to Farnoosh about some of the key issues and opportunities young planners are facing, including:

1. What led her to becoming a planner
2. What she would like to do with the next 5 years of your career
3. Key issues young planners are most passionate about
4. The changing role of a planner
5. New skills that young planner are bringing to the profession

Hope you enjoy this chat :)