We help governments and companies make sense of their complex data, laws, and processes for communities and investors.
Design for positive impact
We believe better outcomes can be achieved when information is open, accessible, and meaningful so everyone can be involved in decisions that impact them, the environment, and our planet.
We help organisations who want to effectively communicate the economic, social, and environmental impacts related to natural resource and infrastructure projects, and clearly convey their energy transition and climate plans.
We support partners through research collaborations, training, developing strategies, improving information experiences, and by making digital services and software products.
We apply systems thinking, visual storytelling, and participatory design to humanise data and policies. We make useful content, lots of maps, and location services for diverse audiences.
Our Work
Community Design Innovation Program
information
participation
transformation
Our Making Open Community Design Innovation Program will help you learn new approaches and skills to improve your information systems and community engagement.
A learning and development program designed to support organisational change and digital transformation of services through training, workshops, and design collaborations.
Making Open includes a content library with useful explainers, design assets, guides, and inspiring examples of innovation from around the world.
Legal Design
We help organisations visually map of legislation and regulations to help communities and businesses understand their roles, rights, responsibilities, and government decision making processes.
We design and facilitate workshops that bring people together to collaboratively communicate, design and improve laws and other processes.
Data and Policy Storytelling
To bring data and planning concepts to life across multiple channels for Transport for NSW's Future Transport Strategy and Plans - we designed over 450 data visualisations, policy explainers, infographics, illustrations, gifs, animations, including a 100 maps across the Master Strategy and Plans.
Service Design
Common Ground was the revolutionary open government mobile web app we made with the Department of Resources and Energy between 2012-2014.
It helped people easily find information about coal, mineral, petroleum and gas activities in New South Wales, and simply explained the role of community in the decision making process.
Although Common Ground was decommissioned in 2023, it is still a world leading example of connecting and presenting data for community audiences, and participatory design.
Make Platform is the software product we are developing so that any government and company can publish their reports, plans, and project data in meaningful ways for local and Indigenous communities and investors.
Information Design
We visualise complex concepts making them easier for people to comprehend. The Australia’s National Integrity System, Blueprint for Action was a publication for advocates to explain what’s needed to create a strong national integrity commission. Led by Griffith University and Transparency International Australia, we have also collaborated with them and the Human Rights Law Centre on visualising whistleblower laws.
Content and Web Design
We work with many local and international non government organisations.
Open Ownership supports governments to introduce new laws and data systems required to make it easy to publish and access high-quality, linked data about who owns companies.
We helped Open Ownership wrangle and refresh their content and designed their Guide to Implementing Beneficial Transparency. Other collaborations include impact storytelling and designing workshops for the Zambian Government’s Opening Extractives program.
WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO
We care about protecting our planet, environment, people, and nature.
We have a unique set of creative skills, experience, and technical capabilities and are dedicated to embedding nature positive design across the world.
Designing governance to be more open, inclusive and collaborative
There is a global ‘open’ movement, thousands of innovators in governments and companies who are working on transforming data and practices that allows people to participate in the design and development of public policy, services, programs, and projects that impact them.
We’ve made it our job to support them.
We are a female founded, certified social enterprise.
If you would like to support our work, you can make a tax deductible donation via the Australian Cultural Fund, an Australian government platform that supports creative and cultural organisations.
WHO WE'VE WORKED WITH
Who We Support
If you’re interested in funding, partnering or working with us, get in touch!