2015

Placemaking

By 2015, Freerange had built three major placemaking and public consultation websites for the City of Adelaide, all supporting their vibrancy agenda. Here’s the trilogy, in reverse order.

Shape the Park Lands

Shape the Park Lands informed the community about the twenty-nine (!) parks ringing the city — their history and usage — then asked people to share their ideas for what new and interesting things we could do with them, for the benefit of all. There were over 800 submissions, ideas ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, but I don’t think anyone suggested cutting down hundreds of trees to ‘enhance’ the golf course.

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Picture Adelaide 2040

Picture Adelaide 2040 was a crowdsourced project that asked the people of Adelaide to share their experiences of the city and its surrounds. The council wanted to know why Adelaide is a great place to work, shop, study, visit, play and live. Over 30 days, the project collected more than 1,000 experiences from the people of Adelaide, all of which went to help shape the 2040 city plan.

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5000+

The first of our placemaking projects was 5000+, a multiyear initiative created to explore great ideas for the future of Adelaide. We worked closely with the Integrated Design Strategy team to develop the website — a platform for co-creation, innovation and crowdsourcing creativity in response to urban planning challenges. More than 200 ideas were suggested, yielding nearly 400 comments and thousands of votes.

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Reasonable & Necessary

A key concept underpinning the NDIS is “reasonable and necessary supports” — a way to frame individual choice in determining funding under the scheme. Ahead of the national rollout of the NDIS in 2016, Access2Arts asked the disability community: what is reasonable and necessary for you?
We helped by designing and building a collaborative interactive art gallery, where contributors could visualise and share what was reasonable and necessary for them. The online project led to an exhibition inside a shipping container in a city square and more importantly, it helped shape the national conversation.

Hundreds of yellow post-it notes with writing and images on them, each a 'reasonable and necessary' need from a contributor.
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Hub Adelaide

Also in 2015, we moved into Hub Adelaide on Peel St. If you ever visited that co-working space — or the old Melbourne Hub in Donkey Wheel House — you’ll remember the OG hipster tech co-working vibe. We squeezed five desks into a four-by-four metre room and regularly spilled out onto the co-working floor.

We were all about the lunch ‘n’ learns and the winedowns. We made some amazing friends at Hub and learned about a thing called B Corp.

Freerange team standing around a Freerange pull up banner and looking cheerful
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