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1. Creative Placemaking: Design & Delivery

POMO occupies the critical niche between high-level urban strategy and fine-grain bespoke physical delivery.
Unlike traditional consultancies that stop after the engagement or concept phase, we solve the "Implementation Gap" ensuring community aspiration or visions are translated into creative yet constructible reality.

Our end-to-end methodology bridges the divide between landscape architecture, art and industrial design. We don’t just design; we document, certify, and handle the building and fabrication of bespoke creative elements in the public domain. From the initial place audit or engagement to final RPEQ certification and installation, we ensure that every intervention is culturally significant, community-backed, structurally sound, and commercially viable.

2. Community Engagement Consultants

Evidence-Based Engagement for Complex Stakeholders 
Effective placemaking requires more than consultation; it demands deep social listening and rigorous data analysis. We act as Community Engagement Specialists, often working in tandem with partners like Fourfold Studio, to extract authentic local narratives and aspirations that drive physical outcomes.

Our engagement process is not a "tick-box" exercise. It is a strategic tool used to de-risk projects by aligning Council or developer objectives with community sentiment. Whether engaging with First Nations custodians for cultural expression or navigating complex internal stakeholder groups, we translate qualitative and quantitative feedback into tangible design outcomes that unite communities and create places people love.

3. Placemaking Strategy

Frameworks for Revitalisation 
We deliver revitalisation strategies that serve as actionable roadmaps for Councils. Our strategies move beyond generic urban planning to provide "sticky" place propositions that drive economic spend and visitation.

By combining demographics and psychographics with deep historical archival research, we build unique people and place frameworks that guide urban renewal from foundational truths about places and people. These strategies are currently used by local governments to guide capital works programs, design guidelines or urban renewal programs. This ensures that millions in infrastructure spend delivers social benefit, is aligned with community, and deeply connected to unique qualities of place.

4. Workshop Facilitation & Co-Design

We specialise in maintaining a "strategic thread" from the first community workshop through to the final built outcome. However we often are engaged to do some, one, or all of each step in the process - depending on the project and client needs. Our co-design process creates a unified vision among diverse stakeholder groups, often bridging the gap between constraints and community or stakeholder aspirations.

Our facilitation moves beyond brainstorming; we use design-thinking methodologies and tactics to produce technical constraints and opportunities (C&O) mapping. This ensures that the "big ideas" generated by the community are technically feasible and budget-aligned before they enter the design pipeline.

5. Design Guidelines/Statutory Policy

Codifying Place Character for Statutory Planning or Policy Making 
POMO is frequently engaged by government bodies to author Place-Driven Design Guidelines that become endorsed Council documents or feed into statutory publications. We translate intangible "place character" into frameworks that ensure future built environments respect local place identity.

These documents serve as the "guardrails" for urban renewal, giving developers and planners a clear set of metrics for materiality, form, and cultural interpretation. This work protects regional identity against generic development or renewal, ensuring long-term adherence to the intrinsic qualities of place.

6. Project Management (Client Side)

Technical Assurance & Delivery Management 
We are often engaged "client side" to manage the delivery of complex Creative Urban Infrastructure. This service is designed for Councils who have a vision but lack the internal capacity to manage the risks associated with bespoke delivery or fabrication.

We handle the gritty details of delivery: procurement, tender documentation (IFC), collaboration with delivery partners such as artists or other speciality makers, and fabrication oversight. By managing the interface between makers, artists, engineers, and civil contractors, we ensure that high-quality creative outcomes are delivered true to their visions, on time, on budget, and to Australian Standards.

7. Creative Infrastructure Through Interpretive Design

Bespoke Delivery Beyond "Beautification" 
We deliver Integrated Interpretive Design Outcomes that function as critical creative streetscape or other public infrastructure. We collaborate with makers, artists, specialist tradespeople and fabricators. Our work often is aimed at building capacity in the regional or local creative economy.

We design and deliver bespoke elements from interpretive and wayfinding signage to functional street furniture, public art, lighting, or really anything that can be customised through creativity that can tell the story of a place. We manage the entire design and delivery chain, ensuring that every element is created true to its vision and to the high quality standards demanded by public authorities and other stakeholders.

8. Wayfinding & Interpretive Signage

Digital & Physical Integration for Cultural Destinations 
We create signage systems that turn places into walkable cultural experiences. Our expertise lies in the integration of physical signage with local storytelling through place and people driven narratives.

 Our process involves engagement, research and collaboration to unlock content that is unique and special to each place.

We have experience in creating smart city signage and integrating digital layers, such as our work with Soundtrails, to create immersive audio-visual journeys that are QR code activated and geo-located.

Our wayfinding strategies are fully compliant with AS 1428 (Access and Mobility) while remaining deeply site-specific. We move beyond arrows and maps to create "breadcrumb trails" of cultural interpretation, encouraging exploration and connecting people to the unique history and commercial offerings of a precinct.

Our work often integrates local materials, involves collaborations with local artists, makers and craftspeople for the delivery of signage-as-cultural-products which is deeply connected to people and places.