Heritage informed placemaking.
Our Ethos.
For most people trying to get a project off the ground, the word heritage sends a chill up their spine. Heritage is viewed as prestigious, fragile and scarce, as expensive, time consuming, challenging and, let's be honest, pretentious.
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Know Your Place sees heritage through a placemaking and planning lens. We see opportunity, enhancement, integration, and how heritage places, and intangible heritage add social, environmental and economic benefit to a project.
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Responsible, community focused heritage outcomes can be the X factor in a project and, more importantly, can increase the well being of residents. Because ultimately, heritage is all about the human connection to a place, and the stories imbedded in it.
Know Your Place provides down to earth advice for people who want to see heritage incorporated into the future in a meaningful and aspirational way.
What We Do.
At Know Your Place, we are inclusive heritage planners, centering the community within discussions of heritage outcomes.
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Our services include:
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Advocacy for heritage inclusion within placemaking and planning
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Presentations on enhancing placemaking through heritage inclusions and interpretation
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Heritage approvals
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Statutory approvals
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Policy creation for heritage places
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Heritage and planning reporting
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Heritage interpretation strategies and plans including content creation
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Community engagement and advocacy
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Mediation through permit stages
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Do you have a quirky project? They are our favourite, so please reach out no matter how small the question.
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Historical research
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Our preference is to work as a sub consultant as part of a project team, however, we will consider private projects if they align with our placemaking ethos.
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To discuss how we can help, click below.
Get in touch.
Know Your Place
We are happy to take enquiries from the smallest question to the broadest vision, so reach our today.
hello@knowyourplace.au
Ph: +61 450 889 092
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Collingwood VIC.
While we are city based, we have a country heart and prefer regional projects. We are available by appointment and can travel to you or host you in our amazing space.
Know Your Place acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and custodians of the land in which we work. We recognise that sovreignty was never ceded and pay our respects to Elders past and present. We honour their continuing connection to Country, community, lands, waters and culture.
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Know Your Place engage with First Nations cultural practitioners where Aboriginal Cultural Heritage is part of the project.