Fix Your Struggling Town - A Community Driven Process

In May 2020 POMO set about establishing a community action group in Nambour. The group is comprised of community members from a wide range of backgrounds who are generating bottom-up solutions to the challenges that the town faces.

POMO’s Design Director Stephen Burton is leading and facilitating this program which runs across a number of months. At the end, a document will be created that outlines key problems and a range of solutions. Importantly, this document has been created by community members who come into contact with these challenges on a daily basis and are therefore uniquely placed to understand the issues and offer solutions.

Community lead urban problem solving is a rapidly emerging field which draws attention to the role that everyday people can play in making better towns and cities.

This is a participatory process involving a design thinking framework that is being trailed by POMO with a view to rolling the process out to other communities facing similar challenges to Nambour.

The program is completely pro bono and is part of POMO’s community benefit commitment.

More articles

Place Keeping vs Placemaking: Embedding First Nations Stories in Urban Design

 
Place Keeping vs Placemaking: Embedding First Nations Stories in Urban Design

When we build modern cities, we often overlook the deep cultural histories embedded in the land itself. Wanda Dalla Costa is an architect, educator, and proud member of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation. As the founder of Tower Architecture Collective, her work centres on indigenous place keeping and life centred design.

Art, Memory & Creating Safer Places

 
Art, Memory & Creating Safer Places

We have all experienced that sudden, unexpected moment of wonder while going about our daily routine. Perhaps it was a splash of colour in a grey alleyway, a busker playing a haunting melody in a train station, or a sculpture that made you stop and look at a familiar view in a completely new way.

These aren’t just “nice-to-have” embellishments. According to Dr. Michael Cohen, Director of City People, these artistic interventions are the fundamental building blocks of how we remember and feel safe in our cities.

When a Main Street Becomes a Main Road: The Case for Buderim’s Revitalisation

 
When a Main Street Becomes a Main Road: The Case for Buderim’s Revitalisation

We often say that a town’s main street is its front door. It is the place where first impressions are made, where community stories are told, and where local commerce either thrives or stagnates.

In Buderim on the Sunshine Coast, that front door is Burnett Street. But currently, that door is being blocked by a constant stream of traffic.

View all articles

Share