Our Services
We help people, organisations, and cities create places where communities thrive. As inspirers, process builders and regenerative pollinators, we empower communities with the tools, agency, and confidence to take ownership of their places and drive meaningful change. We believe that wisdom lies in the community, and aim to empower people to lead regenerative transformations of their places.
Regenerative placemaking
Our Regenerative Placemaking utilises transformative processes that have delivered some of the most successful places in Australia and globally. We work closely with our clients to deliver tailored processes that are impactful, deliverable, and can unlock the potential of your place.
Place Pulse
Our new and innovative Place Pulse audit helps you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your place to guide place improvement. By measuring the patterns of your place against the Regenerative Placemaking Model, we score your place on how it performs as a system; environmentally, socially, culturally, economically, and physically.
Place Opportunities
From our Place Pulse results and site walks, we offer initial observations of place and potential moves that draw upon the 35 years of experience in Placemaking at Village Well.
Place Understanding
Our unique research and engagement methods build a deep knowledge of your place to ensure the most appropriate decisions are made. Through this process, we build a picture of a place’s stories and build an evidence base to inform our collective visioning and strategies.
Place Visions
We facilitate workshops with groups and communities to co-create an aspirational vision for the future. Our Place Vision and foundational Place Principles build upon the place stories and collective input from our unique processes. We provide a compelling and inspiring Place Vision document to guide your place’s development, articulate your point of difference, and gain support for your project.
Place Strategies
Our strategies are evidence-based, responding to place, client, stakeholders and community needs. They are actionable plans to meet your Place Vision, providing recommendations, actions, overlays and visualisations to help your team, group, or community deliver great places.
Place-based engagement
Our engagement processes uncover the stories of place and mobilise action in groups and communities. We uncover the rich histories, layered cultures and untold stories that make every place unique to inform better development. Through transformative and creative processes, we use engagement as a tool to align stakeholders, inspire positive change and empower groups to work together to build better places.
Place Understanding
Combining tailored engagement tools, data-driven methodologies, and meaningful conversations, we help you uncover deep insights about your place, stakeholders, and communities. These insights provide a foundation to guide decisions, strengthen relationships, and ensure your projects deliver successful places.
Inspiration and Mobilisation
Our transformative processes empower communities and groups to shape their place. We facilitate workshops, conversations and co-creation processes that change perspectives, build connections and drive action.
Place-based engagement
Our engagement processes uncover the stories of place and mobilise action in groups and communities. We uncover the rich histories, layered cultures and untold stories that make every place unique to inform better development. Through transformative and creative processes, we use engagement as a tool to align stakeholders, inspire positive change and empower groups to work together to build better places.
Place Understanding
Combining tailored engagement tools, data-driven methodologies, and meaningful conversations, we help you uncover deep insights about your place, stakeholders, and communities. These insights provide a foundation to guide decisions, strengthen relationships, and ensure your projects deliver successful places.
Inspiration and Mobilisation
Our transformative processes empower communities and groups to shape their place. We facilitate workshops, conversations and co-creation processes that change perspectives, build connections and drive action.
Place-based Pilots
We support teams in delivering great placemaking pilot projects, building internal capacity and helping showcase the impact of place-led interventions. Through highlighting the impact of these projects, we build momentum and shift perspectives to encourage regenerative and place-led thinking.
Organisational Understanding
We work with your staff, executives, key stakeholders, and communities to build an understanding of barriers, opportunities and aspirations for regenerative and place-led approaches within an organisation. Through workshops, site visits, engagement and research into best practices, we build a picture of how your organisation performs and its potential for place-led practices.
Organisational frameworks and strategies
We collaborate with you to develop frameworks and strategies grounded in place and informed by your organisation. These frameworks shape policy, governance, and embed processes that foster a thriving, regenerative and place-led culture.
Place-led training and capacity building
We provide in-person and online training sessions and workshops to increase organisational understanding of the applications of regenerative practices and place-led approaches across organisations.
Regenerative place-led cultures
We work with organisations to shift toward place-based and regenerative cultures, governance and processes. Through close collaboration, we help you deliver better places for your organisation, clients and communities, whilst increasing staff capacity, reducing barriers and creating a more supportive and efficient workplace.
Place School
Place School is a global hub for placemaking education and training. Working alongside global thought leaders, we bring you inspiring and practical masterclasses, training sessions and bespoke presentations to help you, your community or your organisation adopt regenerative placemaking practices.
Masterclasses
We provide in-person training sessions across a wide variety of topics. From understanding the basic principles of great places to a deep dive into Regenerative Placemaking, our masterclass will help you deliver more Regenerative places and processes.
Regenerative Placemaker training series
Inspiring a new generation of Regenerative Placemakers, we provide thoughtful and practical training sessions to help you master the knowledge and skills you need to become a Regenerative Practitioner.
Community-led Regeneration training
Tailored for the general public, we can provide placemaking activation and implementation training, helping communities mobilise action and turn their ideas into a reality.
Place-governance trainings
Adopting regenerative placemaking as an organisation requires place-led governance, expanding outside of the organisation to engage people and place. These bespoke trainings will meet you where you are at and help inspire, plan and/or implement systemic change within your organisation.