Clear planning and design guidance from informed communities.

 

Informing change at any scale

  • Homes

  • Streets

  • Neighbourhoods

  • Precincts

  • Cities

Fairplace gets communities better involved in spatial planning and design.

When the community & stakeholders are given the right tools and a little guidance they give back an abundance of insights for planners, regulators and design professionals. Our Collaborative Place Design method has been developed over a decade and tested on four continents with over 2500 participants.

Using our proprietary block systems we create site-specific models and use a game-like approach to rapidly explore multiple iterations and prompt lively discussion. Participants are readily engaged, tensions are reduced, and ideas can be explored in a supportive and consequence-free environment.

As well as learning about the trade-offs required in planning decisions, Fairplace’s method creates a value driven framework generating clear guidance for the collaborative development of projects and policy. Our analytics and reporting is invaluable to allow meaningful change.

LGAs get a rigorous way to improve policy outcomes.

Communities get meaningful involvement.

Elected members get to activate a deeper democracy.

Design professionals gain new insights.

  • Educational

    Interactive, tactile and highly engaging methods based on learn from play theories and participatory design.

  • Powerful

    Participants gain a sense of agency from hands-on involvement, understanding and experiential learning.

  • Rigorous

    Over a decade of research, development and refinement by academics, educators and built environment professionals.

  • Proven

    Fairplace has been trialled on four contentents with 2500+ participants, with overwhelmingly positive outcomes.

  • Collaborative

    A playful, workshop environment where knowledge and expertise is openly shared to drive optimal outcomes.

  • Inclusive

    Create a level playing field for all stakeholders, allowing valuable insights to be expressed and captured.

  • "The model really helped us to engage in a meaningful way on complex planning policy. "

    Paul Garbett, Director of Strategic Planning and Projects, City of Fremantle.

  • "Your dedication and patience in arranging and hosting the recent design workshops and supporting the Bassendean community is to be commended."

    Peta Mabbs, CEO, Town of Bassendean.

  • "The ‘Grow my Suburb’ co-design workshop was the highlight of the conference"

    IProfessor Carolyn Whitzman, University of Ottowa.

  • "An extraordinarily useful piece of work."

    David Doy, Manager Place Planning, Town of Victoria Park.

Fairplace’s collaborative place design method has been in development since 2010.