Stakeholder Engagement
Our co-creation methodologies ensure that people and communities are at the heart of design processes, fostering shared intent, communality, and building the capability of future users. We utilise a suite of trialled and tested processes and tools to support communities articulate their collective aspirations and needs. Our methodology is tailored to suit different organisational contexts, scales, demographics, and locations. This process equally informs design direction and engages participants to attune to how space can enhance and support current and future needs.
We’ve led workshops with many educational and institutional organisations including Bourke Street Primary School, Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College and The Chau Chak Wing Museum.
Strategic Briefing
Helping organisations clarify their infrastructural needs for the future requires a unique skillset in uncovering organisational motivations and operations, and an ability to synthesise a range of data toward potential spatial needs and requirements. Our in-house expertise and methodologies support organisations through this process of developing high-level studies, reports, and business cases to empower organisations to make the right infrastructural decisions for the future.
Recent examples of Strategic Briefing include Chau Chak Wing Museum Object-Based Learning Spaces and Sydney Opera House Centre for Creativity Furniture Strategy.
“The Hayball process enabled us to achieve a shared vision and empowered us to articulate and negotiate a successful outcome.”
Ross Clendinning, Project Manager, Chau Chak Wing Museum
Supporting Transition
Optimising the use of new, innovative spaces often requires new cultural practices and ways of working, however it can be challenging for organisations and their staff to shift how they are accustomed to operating. We run workshops to help educational organisations transition staff into new spaces which include sharing the latest research into the relationships between pedagogy and space, and using tools to help people think about how to harness the potential of space to achieve their goals.
We’ve recently led workshops for educators at Domremy College and Evelyn Scott P-10 School.
User Manuals
The potential of new spaces may not be apparent to everyone, especially if people haven’t been involved in the design process to start with. User manuals offer a means of capturing and sharing the intent behind the design of space. We offer a service to develop user manuals tailored to future inhabitants to help them navigate opportunities afforded by buildings and spaces.
The Caulfield Grammar School User Manual is a guide to using the Learning Project, a modular building designed to support the development of new pedagogical practices. Find out more about this project here.
“It helped me to critically think about the different needs of learners and how learning spaces can cater for or inhibit learners.”
Teacher, Evelyn Scott P-10 School
