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Creative Placemaking: Design & Delivery

We provide a totally unique end to end creative placemaking service. A methodology and process developed by us that allows us to partner with people designing urban environments to inject a detailed level of meaning and creativity into their projects.

We research, engage, report and carry out all phases of design and project delivery - a unique beginning to end methodology. A process also flexible enough to mould to the demands and budgets of any public realm urban design project.

We have a six step process that ensures we can work alongside you to help create meaningful, detailed, creative urban experiences.

1. Community/Stakeholder Engagement
   Everything begins with community and stakeholders, we engage via various methods to ascertain a clear picture of aspirations and concerns. Our community engagement programs are often run in collaboration with our engagement partners Fourfold Studio.
   
    
2. Research and Place Analysis
   Deep dive into place via history, cultural analysis, demographics and psychographics. We want to understand the place and people in a meaningful, rich way in order to build a framework for a design response.
   
    
3. Design
   Much of what we design crosses over between industrial design, public art and urban design. We are seeking to creatively express the insights gathered in step 1.
   
    
4. Documentation
   We carry our designs through all stages of documentation from schematic through to detailed including engineering review.
   
    
5. Construction
   We work with a wide range of creatives, artists, makers and tradespeople all of whom are picked due to their ability to help us to deliver the detailed, bespoke and highly creative outcomes we seek.
   
    
6. Delivery
   We manage the construction and delivery of everything we design so we can ensure our clients receive the one-off high quality creative outcomes they are seeking.
    

Community Engagement Consultants

POMO have undertaken a wide range of community and stakeholder engagement programs, in collaboration with partners Fourfold Studio. This work ranges from small scale programs aimed at specific stakeholders, internal stakeholders inside local government, broad scale public engagement and targeted engagement with diverse and 'hard to reach' groups. This work generally involves placemaking or place improvement outcomes.

This community engagement work often feeds directly into our design methodology allowing us to link community expectations and visions to tangible outcomes in the public realm.

If you are looking for a community engagement consultant Melbourne or a community engagement consultant Queensland that has deep experience in placemaking processes and outcomes please contact us anytime. 

Placemaking Strategy

Placemaking Strategies can be used to guide a larger design or visioning process..

Our strategies unearth place insights, dive deeply into local history, include demographic and cultural analysis, create target audience personas and provide unique insights into place characteristics from a multitude of viewpoints. When combined with stakeholder or community engagement these documents are powerful tools for delivering a shared vision.

Our strategies contain key drivers that guide outcomes in the public realm such as architecture, landscape design, master planning or place visioning. They have been used in the past to drive architectural outcomes in the public realm such as arts and community hubs and urban city-wide urban renewal design processes.

Workshop Facilitation, Stakeholder Engagement, Co-Design Process

Our Placemaking Design Process involves unifying stakeholders around a shared vision, we have experience in bringing together diverse perspectives through a design-thinking process run in a facilitated workshop co-design format for small or large groups.

These outcomes feed directly into our design process or into our Placemaking Strategy work. The aim is to allow participants to contribute to the process in a meaningful way and create outcomes that meet the needs of everyone involved.

Design Guidelines

We have been engaged to create place-oriented design guidelines that are officially endorsed government publications. These guidelines are used by practitioners to inform the design of public places in ways which ensure unique place based outcomes.

Local government has an interest in ensuring development and change is guided by placemaking principles that put people, place and local character first - our unique work in this area ensures this happens.

Project Management

Being highly experienced in the design and delivery of bespoke, creative outcomes in the public realm we are often engaged ‘client side’ to procure, manage and deliver urban revitalization projects for local government or community organisations.

These projects require a detailed understanding of the complexities of design and delivery of creative works in public places and how these works intersect with local and state planning laws, Australian Standards, structural engineering, electrical engineering and a range of other complex considerations. 

Public Art Specialists: Design & Delivery

POMO works with a hand picked list of artists in a range of mediums across Australia including First Nations artists. This allows us to achieve the bespoke, artistic outcomes we desire in many of our placemaking design and delivery projects. We are perfectly suited to collaborating with other professionals who are looking to integrate public art into their projects.

POMO can partner with contractors, developers, councils and others on any project that has a public art or integrated art component. We can cost detailed design and delivery for any art element big or small; we can help curate outcomes, we can manage all aspects of artist and specialist selection and take on the full design and delivery process through to in-the-ground outcomes.

Contact us now if you have a project with an art component that you need to partner on or need a subcontractor or sub-consultant for with this specialist skill set.