Helping people make places better.
We are a specialist consultancy that helps people make places better.
We combine communications with design-thinking to build trust, solve challenges and make change happen.
We work on transformative projects that are socially and environmentally sustainable and support local, national or international (United Nations) sustainable development goals.
‘First comes the image of what we want, then the machinery is adapted to turn out that image.’
Jane Jacobs
To help communicate your image; to connect it to identified need; to advise on the machinery in an increasingly digital world; to help people make places better…
FuturePlace helps people make places better. Our expressed aim to support you and to have people at the heart of all our processes.
We build trust through open and honest communication, expressing empathy and understanding and solving challenges together through co-creation and collaboration.
We add innovation and creativity by juxtaposing insight, perspectives and experiences – places know more when people know different.
And we design agile systems developing prototypes to test and refine methods.
Strategy & Design
Develop SMART objectives, align tactics and define direction. Design-thinking to identify and overcome challenges.
Communications & Branding
Communications strategy and implementation; Place branding strategy and implementation; Media management; Speechwriting; Creative content.
Engagement & Co-Design
Strategy development and implementation; Co-Design and Collaborative workshops; Hackathons, city challenges and consultation events; senior-level political, media, community, executive, and industry engagement.
Digital, Innovation & Ethics
Advice and policy development on Data, Internet of Things, Smart Cities, Digital Twinning, Future Mobility, Artificial Intelligence; Advice and policy development on infrastructure, regional development, towns and cities; Future mapping and analysis of future trends; Ethics guidance relating to technology.
Experience & Behavioural Design
Behavioural change programmes; Service Design and organisational transition to Agile Delivery
“Raise your hands if you trust Facebook, if you trust Google, if you trust government.” It was spring 2017, and I was leading a debate with young people in Canberra. “Has anybody heard of Cambridge Analytica?” Heads shook. I explained behavioural communication. How Cambridge Analytica built “psychographics” from Facebook data to measure personality and motivation – what you …
Continue reading “A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT FOR THE DIGITAL AGE.”
Angelic structures hang overhead. Unlit wings crossing corridors of black cabs and emblematic red buses, awaiting electricity to declare that Christmas was coming. Collars pulled closely move quickly through autumnal air to the sound of occasional siren and constant conversation. London is sensuous. It demands you feel it like a beat poet, view it like a …
Victorian England. From the shadows of wealth grew poverty. Slums slumped against symbols of civic pride, cowering next to towering town halls funded through rich merchant princes, whose elitist rule was insufficient to deal with too many people in too few houses with too little infrastructure. Enter municipality. With darkness came electric light, with disease …
Don’t hesitate to get in touch and see if we can help you make places better.
Kevin Keith | Owner / Founder
FuturePlace
E: kevin@future-place.com
M: +44 7400 729 841
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