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We define and articulate place identity. Our work guides destinations, cultural organisations and city planners to imagine new frontiers for places around the world.

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Place vision
Architecture
Waterfront placemaking

Forever Island

A New Model for Young Islanders, Isle of Wight, UK
Place narrative
Waterfront placemaking

Canning Dock, Liverpool Waterfront

Revealing stories of global transatlantic slave trade and local identity through public space
New natural
Place vision

Huntingdonshire 2050, UK

Futures Literacy in the Fenlands
Destination brand
Place identity

Snaefellsnes, Iceland

Uncovering the surprising warmth within a brutal landscape
New localism
Waterfront placemaking

Bristol Western Harbour, UK

Crafting a vision through creative research
Place strategy
Vision

Silvertown, Royal Docks, London

Re-imagining the Royal Docks as London's Riviera
Place strategy

Moffet Park, Silicon Valley

Conceiving Google’s most advanced district as a place of effortless living and working

Why We All Need Natural Futures

Natural Futures is Live!

The Place Bureau Launches Natural Futures

Place Futures Toolkit : Why the future is better together

The Place Bureau Launches Civic Futures

World Building The City of Trust : Media Architecture Biennale 23

Place Futures : Why Collective Imagination Is 2023’s Superpower

Placemaking Week Pontevedra — The Future of Placemaking

Destination Diagnosis — Re-Programming Your City

Brisbane: Once destined to be the eternal third behind Sydney and Melbourne, has come into its own and is now the talk of the town

Davide Quadrio: curator, producer, cultural powerhouse and founder of Arthub

Working between Shanghai and Europe for over 25 years, Davide offers a distinct view on culture worldwide as founder of Arthub.

Kate Meyrick: urbanist, global citizen and director at Urbis Australia

Looking at themselves, rather than reinventing themselves shows that a city has a sense of self-belief

Rebel City Revelations

As the world turns on its head, we ask if it might just be the rebel cities that make it...

Athens: A Soulful Survivor

How an ancient city is moving forward

New Wave: The Great British Seaside Revival

Why now is the moment to bring back coastal placemaking

Commoning. A counter movement.

What we can learn from Berlin's unique approach to community building

Traditional Vienna is subverting the rules

How the Austrian capital became cool again

Finding Fountainebleau’s magnetic draw

How natural landscapes create places of pilgrimage

Creating platforms for the sounds and voices of the city

How Istanbul is re-inventing its music-making mecca as a stage for protest