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Sandbox studios are university classes run around an issue or opportunity. It usually has 10-20 students involved from various disciplines working together to engage community into co creating ideas for the issue.

Below you can link to studios that have been run around Australia, you can see how the studios were run, what the outcomes where and the types of placemaking they did – popup, high street, laneway, park, precinct, new development, shopping centre revitalisation and so forth.

Studio name and location

Type of placemaking

Stakeholders

Tonga Placemaking Studio

Tonga Placemaking Studio

Tonga Placemaking Studio

Tonga Traveling Studio

Tonga Traveling Studio

Tonga Traveling Studio

Mark's Country Place's Disability-inclusive place strategy

Mark's Country Place's Disability-inclusive place strategy

Mark's Country Place's Disability-inclusive place strategy

Newport Studio – Melbourne, Vic

park, revitalisation

Artists, council, traders and community

Welcome Ground – Ballarat, Vic

Multicultural community centre renewal

Multicultural community centre renewal

Performing landscapes – Ballarat Botanical Gardens, Vic

park, revitalisation

University staff, designers, students, Artists, council and community

New neighbourhood, Point Cook, Vic

retail, public space, shopping centre, pop-up

University staff, designers, students, Council, traders and community

University of Melbourne – Living Pavilion, Vic

Events, temporary, pop-ups

University staff, designers, students, Indigenous stakeholders and nature

Preston Market, Vic

Market, urban renewal, densification

University staff, Council, traders, students and community

Spring vale laneways, Vic

Public space, Multicultural space, laneway

Council, traders, students and community

Inclusive public places, Richmond, Vic

Green space, streetscape, increasing safety perception

Council, community groups, social justice groups and community

Gleadell, Vic

Streetscape activation

Council and community

Brolga lakes Qld

Urbanisation, sustainable development

Council, Community, Planning students, John Mongard Landscape and Michael Myer

Elen Grove Qld

Retail centre, retail, public space, shopping centre, main street

Elen Grove shopping centre owners, residents, Brisbane city council, retailers.

West End Brisbane, Qld

Outdoor space, wellbeing, social change, transition

Council, traders, students and community, UQ

Plan Making in Woolloongabba, QLD

Inner urban, suburban

UQ, John Mongard, CoDesign Studio, Students

Perth – placemaking, kids, activation and agency, WA

Cultural hub, art hub, education, children

Community, children, Curtin University, Baldivis Children’s Forest

Perth – Indigenous informed landscape design of university campus, WA

landscape, Indigenous, ecology

Students with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal ecologists, Curtin University, community leaders, and geographers

Perth – mapping and plan Bayswater (1), WA

Community hub, housing

Future Bayswater, students, community, Curtin University

Perth – industrial revitalisation Bayswater (2), WA

Strategy

Future Bayswater, students, community, Curtin University

Adelaide – Oaklands crossing community connections, SA

Transport hub and community hub

Students, Uni of Adelaide, community reps and the City of Marion

Adelaide – Reflecting Indigenous and religious meaning, SA

Redevelopment of the community space

Students, Uni of Adelaide, DYC, Council and community representatives

Adelaide – Climate Refuge, SA

Rapid prototype place activation installation

Students, Uni of Adelaide, Council and community representatives

Adelaide – Crawford Lane – from lane to place, SA

Lane revitalisation

Students, Uni of Adelaide, community reps, Aspect Studios, Charles Sturt Council and Hindmarsh Stadium, home of Adelaide Utd FC.

Sydney – Codesigning urban landscapes, NSW

Ecological and active transport corridor

Students, UNSW, GreenWay, community and local stakeholders

Subjunctive space, Sydney Olympic Park, NSW

Incorporating Indigenous perspectives of place

Indigenous Knowledge keeper, students and UTS

Hyperdensities, Chinatown, NSW

Nature in hyper dense cities, exhibition

Hong Kong University and UTS

Wingara’ba’miya, Sydney, NSW

Exploring decolonisation

Local Indigenous representatives, archivists, students

Antartica 2.0

Art Science communication, exhibition

Researchers and students