Partnering across placemaking and public art
Places which develop in response to an identified local character and agreed desired future character are likely to be more sustainable to contribute to good quality of life and attract investment.
Landcom and Sydney Metro are working together on the long-term planning and development of government- owned developable land surrounding the stations on
the Metro North West Line. The program, called Sydney Metro Northwest Places, focuses on creating diverse, well-designed places for current and future communities to live, work, shop and play.
As part of our partnership with Sydney Metro, this year Landcom has completed a Placemaking Framework that outlines our placemaking approach for the Sydney Metro Northwest Places program and guides Landcom, Sydney Metro and our development partners.
The placemaking program strives to create a sense
of community and belonging as these places evolve, using both temporary and more permanent anchors to encourage people’s connections to place and people.
Landcom partners with not-for-profit organisations, artists, and the community to deliver placemaking.
Our placemaking partnerships and initiatives included:
- Glenwood High School worked with The Story Factory and local Aboriginal Elders to explore past, present and future perspectives of place
- creative hoardings across the Sydney Metro Northwest places involving artists Maddison Gibbs, Ian Mutch, Nadia Hernández, Bradley Eastman, Tania Barahanos, Alexandra Byrne and Leanne Watson
- Live Life Get Active: free fitness workshops held at Tallawong Pocket Park promoting healthy lifestyles and developed to reduce preventable disease within communities
- The Mobile Library pop-up and Baby Rhyme Time at Tallawong Pocket Park with storytime for toddlers delivered by Blacktown City Libraries
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Christmas engagement: The Northwest Pole colouring competition for children 12-years-old and under, and #NorthwestFaces: a webspace for sharing storiesabout why locals love Northwest Sydney.
Our placemaking approach is proving sustainable, a key objective in ensuring ongoing placemaking outcomes for our communities. For example, the Tallawong
Pocket Park placemaking program Life Live Get Active, Blacktown City Council’s mobile library and Baby Rhyme Time have successfully transitioned to our development partner, Deicorp and now runs from the Deicorp display suite.
As part of our partnership with Sydney Metro, this year Landcom also completed Public Art Guidelines so that we can deliver public art that builds the unique story of each place, encourage social connections and bring life to public spaces. Our vision is to enable artworks that are contemporary, memorable, bold and innovative in order to inspire, invigorate and announce these precincts as places for people to live, connect and grow.
While COVID-19 impacted our delivery of placemaking activities onsite, we continue our planning for more activities in the future to bring people together, make people and places safer and healthier and support a sense of community and connection to place.
* (source: Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (2019) Local Character and Place Guideline)
