POMO is an Award Winning Creative Placemaking Practice. We Help Create Successful Public Places.
As placemaking design and delivery specialists, we partner with local governments and urban designers to help create and revitalise public places of all scales. Our work creates layers of meaning by expressing local stories, culture, history and place identity.
Our experience spans community engagement, all facets of design, bespoke artistic construction and delivery. Our outcomes create authentic connections between people, cultures, and community, delivering measurable social and economic value.
Our work delivers a level of fine detail and bespoke expression that is typically very hard to achieve in urban design processes. Through the engagement and design process, we interpret themes of people and places and express them artistically in the public environment. This creative placemaking builds successful public spaces, unifies communities, and leaves a meaningful legacy.
From inception to delivery, our process unifies people around a shared vision. Our technical expertise in all facets of placemaking from community engagement through to design and bespoke construction, allows us to deliver high-quality outcomes that remain true to their original vision.
We actively collaborate with a diverse range of artists and specialist makers across Australia, including First Nations artists.
Our work bridges the gap between high-level strategy and the tactile reality of creating nuanced, creative places that tell stories and reflect the hearts and minds of communities.
We have a community engagement process that brings people together around a shared vision, whether this be community members or internal stakeholders. We use place narratives, culture, and place identity to develop unique “people and place” focused outcomes. We collaboratively develop the engagement program with our clients, and where relevant, thread those engagement outcomes through a design and delivery process and into tangible outcomes.
We uncover the unique DNA of a place. Our strategies combine historical ecology, social psychology, consultation and economic analysis to create a roadmap for revitalisation. We align high-level urban planning with on-the-ground reality, ensuring projects are socially sustainable and place appropriate.
We view public art not as a critical layer of the built environment that connects people to place. We create site-specific, narrative-driven public art that reveals a location's unique DNA, often celebrating its history, ecology, and cultural identity.
Our approach bridges the gap between conceptual vision and physical reality. We work collaboratively with artists, local government, developers, communities, architects and other stakeholders, often as the overall project lead for design and delivery.
Because we manage the entire lifecycle from community or stakeholder engagement through to design, fabrication and complex installation, we de-risk the process for our clients. The result is durable, high-quality public art that fosters a deep sense of belonging, drives local economic value, and leaves a meaningful legacy.
We specialise in maintaining a "strategic thread" from the first community workshop through to the final built outcome. Our co-design process creates a unified vision among diverse stakeholder groups, often bridging the gap between constraints and community aspirations. Our facilitation moves beyond brainstorming; we use design-thinking methodologies to produce technical constraints and opportunities (C&O) mapping, ensuring ideas are feasible and budget-aligned.
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.
We act as the client's representative, ensuring the creative vision is delivered on time and on budget. We bridge the gap between the design team and the construction team, managing contractors and fabricators to ensure quality and integrity are maintained throughout the delivery process.
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 is often aimed at building capacity in the regional or local creative economy, merging functional utility with deep storytelling.
We design and deliver bespoke interpretive and wayfinding signage, often integrating cultural and historical storytelling. We believe legibility equals economic vitality, and we create systems that improve dwell time and deliver on place meaning. We combine place research, stakeholder engagement, and narrative design to create clear, intuitive visitor journeys.
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