How we can help
Specialities
& Services
This Must Be The Place is an interdisciplinary Placemaking consultancy. We bring together extensive design, event, brand activation, marketing, comms and property experience to each project.
We provide tailored Placemaking services that support innovative developers, landlords, local authorities and BIDs to achieve their ambitions to create and sustain places where communities flourish and people thrive, whilst fulfilling their obligations.
We specialise in Place, Catalyst and Meanwhile strategies and their implementation - off setting costs and generating revenues for our clients through considered programming, curated partnerships and the commercial management of spaces.
We also curate cultural programmes, create brand platforms and identities, write and facilitate workshops and design charrettes, commission participatory art installations, run community engagements and deliver engaging event programmes.
Being part of the Vibration Group we have direct access to a host of industry leading services and people, giving us a considerable advantage over our peers in that we can seamlessly execute and manage the strategies we create.
We work closely with Vibration Group companies such as Broadwick Live, Broadwick Venues and Venue Lab to maximise the commercial and cultural opportunities at the places we work on.
Strategy
Place Platforms (visions, pillars, principles etc)
Catalyst & Meanwhile
Commercial Placemaking
Culture & Content
Leasing & Partnerships
Brand Vision & Messaging
Marketing & Brand Comms
Public Realm Design & Activation
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Commercial, Cultural & Tactical
Partnerships
Partner / tenant identification, recruitment & management
Funding and sponsorship
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Consultancy
Critical friend (assess / test / stretch)
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Design & Production
Event production & management
Art direction & graphic design
Brand comms (films, printed materials, websites, social media assets)
On-site branding and enlivenment (hoarding, way-finding, entrances, art installations)
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commercial placemaking & Meanwhile Activation
Opportunity identification & development
Asset & catalyst development & preparation
Licensing, planning & legals
Partner / Tenant recruitment & management
Site / venue preparations
Asset / venue / estate management
Content curation, creation & activation
Event production & management
Commercial opportunity development, sales & activation
Development of temporary leases into permanent tenancies
Revenue generation & off-setting costs
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Community
Community engagement (consultations, events and activities)
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Design Charrettes & Workshops
Experience design & facilitation
Production & management
Capturing & reporting
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Research & Reporting
Stakeholder & community engagement (interviews, workshops, participatory exercises)
Information harvesting
Desk, local & on-site research
Written & visual reports
Production of reporting assets (films, books)
Heritage & futures
Site tours
Place briefings
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Marketing & Brand Comms
Art Direction & graphic design
Brand Identity & assets
Tone of Voice & Messaging
Web design & social media assets
Video & online content
On-site Presence (hoarding, entrances, signage, way-finding)
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Content & Programming
Content creation & curation
Art curation, programming & management
Event creation, design & curation
Event production & management
S.T.E.A.M inspired family events
Community events
Digital art curation
Art & culture events (ticketed & free)
Commercial content
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Venue & catalyst development, Preparation & Management
Commercial management
Temporary & permanent leases
Marketing & sales
Staffing
Event production
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