Balam Balam Place
Balam Balam Place is a new precinct that brings together artists, creatives, the Merri-bek Maternal Child Health Centre and Blak Dot Gallery. The redeveloped site includes South, a contemporary five-storey building, House, a refurbished 1880s residence and Steps, a repurposed 1950s school, all set within a new public park that brings together these distinctive venues for community arts activities.
I worked closely with Jordan Rowe, Kennedy Nolan, Openwork, Finding Infinity, These Are The Projects We Do Together, Blakdot Gallery, and Merri-bek City Council to develop a wayfinding strategy to ensure successful navigation of the precinct.
Specific scope included:
- On-site observation and movement mapping.
- User personas, modes and mindsets.
- Journey mapping of visitors and tenants.
- Co-design and co-creation.
- Workshop facilitation.
- Addressing.
- Circulation and decision points.
- Functional requirements of wayfinding signage.
- Stakeholder engagement.
Collaborators
The way a building can show the strength of infrastructure and the care of home
is not an easy task but it has been done here with such rigour and generosity
- Joseph Norster
We are immensely proud of Balam Balam Place
Joyful in process and wondrous to watch in occupation over time
- Kennedy Nolan
A reciprocal response from those that come to be here,
they arrive in awe of it and leave in love with it
- Joseph Norster
