Our Commitment to Culture
Learning about First Nations culture and heritage is not only integral to the work we do, but it is a personal journey for our people who actively seek to learn, listen and acknowledge First Nations people as the Traditional Owners of this land.
The Kitchen Table
They say the kitchen is the heart of a home – for us it’s our kitchen table is the heart of our business.
Community Matters
Creating Communities was founded on one fundamental truth: community matters.
Connection to Hedland
Hot days and balmy evenings, watching the world’s biggest ships sail into a heave at port, one hypnotic motion.
The largest repository of FIFO data and research in the world
During strategic planning in 2009, Creating Communities identified transience as an emerging trend that would increasingly impact communities in the coming decades.
Breaking New Ground: Chance meetings and transformational models
The year was 1992, and while Creating Communities was working on its first project, Managing Director, Donna Shepherd, was starting a new adventure in New York.
We didn’t always look this way!
Brands tell stories – implicitly and explicitly. They reflect the age and stage of an entity; it’s aspirations and intent. And they can serve as a potted history of growth and evolution (not to mention the eras in which they were designed!)
Co-designing strategy to move forward together
Our approach focuses on equipping our clients and the communities we work with to navigate the profound challenges in today’s world for the betterment of all.
The Gist: Top 10 Community Code of Conduct
We’ve worked in our fair share of communities over the past 30 years and often think about the code of conducts or community rule we’d apply if we were designing our own developments. Turns out it isn’t that difficult, because it’s the very same rule that informs how we work every day.
Keeping Culture Strong in Newman
Nyiyaparli people are rainmakers, they talk to the cloud rocks when water is needed, making deserts green and rivers flow.