Place Identity + Visioning

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Porch Placemaking Week

Connect with neighbours during the covid-19 pandemic by activating your front porch (or balcony, street, front yard, stoop or driveway) between May 30th and June 5th 2020. Join the movement from your own home! Already there are 115 projects in 16 countries: Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, India, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Porch Placemaking Week: Global placemaking leaders unite to catalyse community connection beyond the pandemic.

From New York to Tehran, Australian not-for-profit group CoDesign Studio have started a movement for citizens to build community resilience in their local neighbourhoods - from a distance.
Porch Placemaking Week

Connect with neighbours during the Covid-19 pandemic by activating your front porch (or balcony, street, front yard, stoop or driveway) between May 30th and June 5th 2020.
Announcing new era for CoDesign Studio: strengthening our commitment to shaping great places.

At this critical time for placemaking around the world, we are pleased to announce a new era for our organisation that will enable our team, and organisation, to more effectively support our clients with strategies and tools to manage in crisis, and strengthen resilience to build towards recovery.

Co-Design Process + Workshop Facilitation

Co-Design Process + Workshop Facilitation
Placemaking Strategy

Facilitation of locally-led process through co-design for self-sustaining placemaking outcomes. Strategy, Engagement, and Activation based on award-winning methods grounded in world-first research by CoDesign Studio. Products included in this service include: - Design brief - Masterplanning - Participatory design - Strategic stakeholder engagement - Creative community engagement - Governance and place management plans - Placemaking framework development - Placemaking poli
Place Plan + Government Advisory

A strategic roadmap for how a place will be managed, activated, and altered over a fixed time period, a Place Plan specifies an action plan for local councils and government agencies through locally-led approaches. Most often, a place plan is created by council in response to a catalyst, which could include pressures due to change, or disruption in a community such as major infrastructure change.
Engagement

Integrated engagement for authentic place insights, purposeful stakeholder communication and effective community development. Engagement is a core component of designing places for people. Multi-stakeholder communication and pathways are critical for successful place outcomes. Understand what is truly happening on the ground through our proven methods that are: - Creative - Experiential - Strategic Receive full reports with authentic insights and actionable recommendations.
6. Activation

Placemaking activation for new developments, public spaces, property sales, community events, and creative engagement.
Activation

Placemaking activation for new developments, public spaces, property sales, community events that builds social capital. Have you ever noticed that award-winning, beautiful spaces are sometimes left empty once the initial launch is over? CoDesign Studio are specialists in community activation. We build the social fabric of a place so that it outlasts the design period. Unlock a local community equipped with agency, capability, connection, and mobility for self-sustaining place benefits.
1. Co-Design Process + Workshop Facilitation

Multi-disciplinary team steeped in latest human-centred design principles, use our proprietary process for maximum stakeholder impact in planning, strategy, and engagement.
5. Engagement

Integrated engagement for authentic place insights, purposeful stakeholder communication and effective community development.
3. Place Identity + Visioning

Authentic place branding through creative engagement and meaningful activation to inform place planning, property sales, and community development.
4. Place Plan + Government Advisory

A strategic roadmap for how a place will be managed, activated, and altered over a fixed time period.

Announcing new era for CoDesign Studio: strengthening our commitment to shaping great places.

At this critical time for placemaking around the world, we are pleased to announce a new era for our organisation that will enable our team, and organisation, to more effectively support our clients with strategies and tools to manage in crisis, and strengthen resilience to build towards recovery.
Retail needs to create 'Sticky Places' to succeed

Is your mainstreet or retail centre in decline? We explore why the need to create ‘sticky places' has become more urgent than ever. Property developers, investors and managers are under pressure to plan for growth while facing low footfall and high vacancies.
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Placemaking for Property: 30min insights with Samantha Choudhury

Join us online on Wednesday 20th November at 10AM for a free educative webinar with internationally experienced Sam Choudhury on the power of placemaking for property.
6-Week Online Program

A 6-week accelerated program in best-practice placemaking tailored for specific sectors and industries.
Placemaker Training for Government

Our successful 6-week accelerated program returns! Specifically tailored for government staff, become the go-to placemaker in your organisation. Designed to build participant knowledge of CoDesign Studio's effective and cutting-edge placemaking practice, this training course provides you with insights from real-world projects and experience across government, built environment firms, urban planning, and work with communities. Secure your seat here today.
Locally-led neighbourhoods: A Community-led Placemaking Manual

Your step-by-step guide to CoDesign Studio's process for council and community to work together: make better cities and better neighbourhoods through local empowerment and collaborative process.
Our Story

Lead by CEO Valli Morphett since 2018, and founded by Board Chair Lucinda Hartley in 2010, CoDesign Studio is the most advanced placemaking firm in Australia. Offices in Melbourne and Brisbane service government, property development, and community organisations to impact the resilience and financial viability of their district.
Community-Led Placemaking Guide 2019

The Community-Led Placemaking Guide is CoDesign Studio's premiere resource on the theory and practice to making better cities and better neighbourhoods through local empowerment and collaborative council process.
Get Inspired!

Ideate by CoDesign Studio is globally-accessible digital placemaking tool. Free for community, government, property developers, and urban designers. Get inspired with your next big idea for placemaking in your neighbourhood or development.