PLACE Laboratory

How many landscape architects does it take to make a paella?!

Thank you so much Sunny de Ocampo and Riki Kaspi: The Cooking Professor for a fantastic team building event. We had so much fun making our Spanish feast and sharing dinner together.

PLACE Lab at the 2022 Town Team Conference

It was wonderful to be invited to showcase our Wise Terrace precinct prototyping project at the 2022 Town Team Conference in Kariyarra Country, South Headland and get firsthand feedback watching and talking to users of the spaces and trial activations.

The purpose of the Town Team Movement | RAC WA Conference is to explore the benefits of the place leadership approach in activating communities; rediscover the power of working together as a collective to create positive change and show how a 'can do' approach works when we all work together.

It was an honour to be part of this 2-day outdoor conference that saw generous sharing of knowledge and a celebration of the real positive change and empowerment of communities. Seeing our ideas for the Wise Terrace precinct coming to life reinforced PLACE Lab’s commitment to work with communities to create places with purpose and identity. We can’t wait to see what happens next in the South Hedland Town Centre!

We are delighted that we were selected as finalists for the Kidsafe WA 2022 Consumer Protection Western Australia Awards for Waabiny Park for the Department of Communities.

The complex and sensitive history of this 12-hectare brownfield site in Bentley was reimagined with community engagement into an innovative and unique public open space creating positive social outcomes for existing and future communities.

Thank you to all the wonderful collaborators, our client representatives and most importantly community members, who came on the journey and contributed to the realisation of this amazing outcome. We look forward to seeing the continued evolution of this community.

Project info:https://lnkd.in/gTyt-5yh Video:https://lnkd.in/gCNXZ3E8