Services
Circ Design sits at the intersection of placemaking, urban design and community engagement. We apply an integrated approach that sees exceptional outcomes for our clients.
Placemaking
Placemaking is central to our work. We specialise in activating and transitioning places from where they are to where they need to be. We utilise strategic, short to medium term tactics to create spaces that deliver a measurable impact to the people and community around them as well as ongoing uplift for our clients.
Our offer:
Place visioning and activation planning
Place management and governance plans
Framework development and advisory services
Projects
Centre and Street Revitalisation
Centres and Streets worldwide are seeing a renaissance post-Covid. Our team are trained in centre and street revitalisation and lead Australia in urban and regional street strategies.
Our offer:
Post covid-centre renewal
Streetscape revitalisation from consultation and strategy through to implementation
Green street strategies
Healthy Streets certified
Projects
Wellington Point Main Street Revitalisation
Engagement and Consultation
We provide more than standard engagement and consultation. The team have run compelling engagement workshops for climate affected coastal areas, internal engagement for government and facebook and digital engagement during Covid. Circ offer a range of engagement techniques, workshops and events that bring communities on the journey of design and support the development and renewal of new places. We can provide advice on the best strategies for consultation from start to end.
Our offer
Planning and design forums and co-design workshops
Indigenous and climate impacted community engagement
Digital and online engagement
Stakeholder identification and demographic insights
Projects
Coff’s Harbour Coastal Reserve’s engagement and landscape planning
Brisbane City Council Village Precincts place mapping
Samford Main Street
Events and Activation
Our team have worked on some of Australia’s largest festivals which see hundreds of thousands of visitors - from Woodford to the Royal Show designing compelling activations to suburban and precinct festivals. We offer exciting event planning and understand in detail the complex requirements in creating a successful activation.
Our offer
Event planning
Artist and stallholder curation
Coordination
Event construction
Projects
Urban Design and Masterplanning
Our team have worked across scales from town to city, streetscape to urban centre to major greenfield development and everything in between. From site anchors such as hospitals, schools and retail centres to harbours, we consistently seek to understand and enhance the special and unique qualities of these special places. We believe great design is not only an aesthetic consideration but should improve the social, economic, environmental and physical outcomes where we work and live.
Our offer includes site masterplanning and urban design across:
Town and neighbourhood centres
Schools and education precincts
Hospitals and aged care
Main streets and precinct renewal
Coastal and harbour precincts
Projects
Flinders Neighbourhood Centre
Yarabilba Town Centre
White Rock Neighbourhood Centre
Worthy Down Military Base, U.K.
Asker Centre Design, Norway
Design and Place Seminars
We teach the annual PIA (Planning Institute of Australia) Placemaking and Activation course and offer a range of Design and Place workshops and seminars that can be tailored to suit your organisation.
PIA placemaking and activation
Design Canberra
Queensland University of Technology
Circular City Design and Climate Adaptation
Circ Design are experienced and invested in circular city making and climate resilience. We can help projects embed sustainability and resilience into developments from the outset and offer strategic adaptation as a service.
Our offer:
Circular city strategies and frameworks
Location assessment and adaptation assessment
Climate adaptation and design
Urban agriculture integration
Recycling and re-use strategies
Projects
Coff’s Harbour Reserve’s engagement and landscape planning
Ripley Town Centre waste separation strategy
The Circular Economy, EKKA demonstration
Landscape Architecture & Urban Greening
Not all Placemaking companies offer qualified landscape architects to ensure the outcomes and designs are robust and safe. Circ Design offer shovel-ready designs that can be certified and we collaborate with the best landscape architects and construction consultants available to ensure your precinct, streetscape or place is compelling and fit for purpose.
We are passionate about urban greening and speak internationally on green infrastructure and biophilic design from large scale strategic frameworks to fine grain detail and are known innovators in this sector.
Projects
Brisbane Food City Rockefeller Foundation Entry
Soccer Park Aura
Aura streetscape planting
Minka Place Park
Yarabilba Town Centre major town park, dining garden and cricket/schools park
