We do anything and everything that crafts place.

Collaboration is Key

For a successful place outcome; our breadth of service, underpinned by our insight-led creativity, an abundance of knowledge and proven ability to deliver, allows us  to flexibly respond to your project needs whatever the stage it’s at.

We define spaces with a clear sense of purpose – seeking out connections and combining insightful understanding and appropriate stories, so that the place identities we produce become anchored in community hearts and mind

Strategy

Insights, ideas, innovation are born from spacial and location research. We use a range of techniques and engaging workshops to gather insight and create engaging workshops with strategies and actionable outputs. This insight layered on top of our local stakeholder and audience knowledge provides the building blocks for the strategy.

We listen, observe and absorb in order to develop
stories and build strategies and plans that instil 
value at every stage.

 

  • Audience insights and research

  • Audience persona profiling

  • SMART objective setting with aligned KPIs

  • Assumption development and testing

Communications

Storytelling is essential in attracting people to places. The ability to craft a compelling tale sits comfortably with our expert brand identity and PR teams – who are able to curate meaningful stories to help articulate the vision for a place, and create and deliver complex planning narrative to political, corporate and community stakeholders.

The Placemakers help make your story understandable, engaging and powerful to all audiences.

 

  • Stakeholder communications            

  • Internal communications 

  • Consumer PR

  • Corporate PR

  • Crisis and issues management

DESIGN

For us creativity is about crafting every element of a place, making it not just aesthetically pleasing but giving it a compelling underlying narrative. Great design can define a place, uniting its communities by projecting and explaining change in a compelling way.

 

  • Brand and visual identity

  • Place mapping and touchpoints

  • Wayfinding and signage

  • Retail, hospitality and play

  • Interiors, environments, architecture

  • Brand activation and events

Measurement

We know what we do delivers commercial value for our clients and social value for the communities they serve, but how? We measure and keep measuring, that’s how.

We listen to feedback, adapt and evolve regularly to ensure our place projects meet the evolving needs of the people and communities they serve.

Measuring brand understanding and the social value that a project delivers, understanding user journeys, and  stakeholder interactions, and matching back to commercial KPIs.