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about

MudMap Studio is a Broome and Perth based practice led by Vanessa Margetts.

MudMap Studio specialises in community driven public art and landscape architecture. Vanessa collaborates with community and stakeholder groups to create public art and landscapes that respond to site and are embedded in place and community.

Good design is about listening.  Through an open design process, Vanessa listens and learns from the people she’s designing with.  This collaborative process ensures that MudMap Studio projects tell a unique story, and share knowledge of place.

 

 
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services

MudMap Studio services include:

  • Concept design;

  • Master planning;

  • Detailed design and specification;

  • Project costing and review;

  • Project management and contract administration;

  • Public art coordination;

  • Community art facilitation;

  • Strategic stakeholder and community engagement;

  • Events management including workshops and presentations;

  • Strategies and research; and,

  • Cultural management planning.

 
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Vanessa margetts, Founding Director

Vanessa, founding Director of MudMap Studio, is recognised as a leading figure in successful delivering complex cultural projects that have meaningful outcomes for First Nations people and the broader community. Vanessa believes that good design is about deep listening, open sharing and seeking opportunities for truth telling and knowledge exchange within a landscape.

Vanessa brings design and visual arts experience to her work gathered while working with communities around Australia and overseas in Denmark, East Timor, India, Honduras, Columbia and Brazil.

Vanessa is recognised as a leading figure in Australian landscape architecture, selected as one of the 'Top 10 Emerging Voices' in the profession by Landscape Australia.

See Vanessa’s CV, here.

 

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