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 elitist, 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, collaborative and aspirational way; without hand brakes or pretense.
What We Do.
At Know Your Place, we are all about inclusive, heritage informed placemaking, 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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Collaborating with strategic and statutory planners on policy and interpretation
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Statutory heritage approvals (LGA focus)
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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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Historical research
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Challenging planning changes of use, specialising in places of worship, rural and farming zones
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Our preference is regional work, focusing on challenging, quirky and complex planning and heritage work at a local level. We love industrial and underrepresented heritage and are driven by a desire for the best community outcomes, not profit.
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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.