Geoffrey Burns

element

element is a creative, multi-disciplinary team with a 30-year history in delivering technical and creative projects. Offering statutory and strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, heritage services, urban design, economics, place making, public art management and cultural consulting. Through creativity, commercial and technical knowhow element inspires the way we live and shapes communities leaving a legacy for future generations.‍ Our work is shaped around seven pillars: - Planning: We understand the big picture and combine this with unrivalled expertise, industry networks and knowledge of regulatory frameworks to add value to land. - Place: Blending strategy, creativity and commercial reality to create new must see, must be places, we reimagine underperforming spaces, transforming them into much loved, prosperous destinations. - Engagement: We deliver industry leading strategies that are integrated with project goals by delivering authentic dialogue in even the most challenging community and stakeholder environments. - Urban Design: We provide end to end strategies and solutions through urban design, master planning, place branding and interpretive design, showcased through graphic outputs that enhance each place's story of change. - Heritage: We identify future potential by discovering the history, meaning and cultural values of places, ensuring conservation and design adds richness and a sense of place. - Arts & Culture: Our team works with cities, towns, developers and architects to enhance communities through access to arts, creativity, and culture. - Economics: We deliver integrated planning and economics solutions. We perform primary and secondary research, data-driven analysis and econometric modelling. element It's the art and science of place.