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Placemaking living lab: creating resilient social and spatial infrastructures

Open Access
|Dec 2025

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Figure 1

Location of the Placemaking Clarence Valley (PCV) living lab.

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Figure 2

Placemaking Clarence Valley (PCV) living lab relational process loop.

Table 1

Placemaking Clarence Valley (PCV) methods of place-making.

STAGEAPPROACHTOOLS AND ACTIVITIESOBJECTIVES
Stage 1Respect and recogniseInformal engagement:
  • Talking and yarning

  • Spending time on Country

  • Walking, field and site visits

  • Photography and drawing

  • Documenting and collecting information and objects

  • Hospitality, food and conviviality

  • Immersion in place and context

  • Recognise and value what is there

  • Establish mutual trust and relationships

Stage 2Imagine and reflectSemi-structured exercises and workshops:
  • Mapping to identify key places and spaces

  • Drawing and modelling spatial ideas and concepts

  • Verbal deliberation and reflection

  • Decision-making and prioritisation

  • Explore the relationship between places and resilience

  • Establish what is missing

  • Ideation and co-creation of spatial ideas

  • Testing and consensus

Stage 3Collective actionFormalised teamwork:
  • Planning and team formation

  • Codevelop grant applications for funding

  • Submit grant application and commence projects

  • Build place-making capabilities

  • Leverage resources

  • Practice teamwork

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Figure 3

Co-creation workshop within the Placemaking Clarence Valley (PCV) living lab (Blicks).

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Figure 4

Co-creation workshop within the Placemaking Clarence Valley (PCV) living lab (Woombah).

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Figure 5

Woombah shelter section.

Drawing: Ashley Ho.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.634 | Journal eISSN: 2632-6655
Language: English
Submitted on: Apr 21, 2025
Accepted on: Nov 17, 2025
Published on: Dec 9, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2025 Mel Dodd, Nikhila Madabhushi, Robert Lees, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.