A big table for ideas that shape the future
Common Place is a digital studio and publishing house bringing together strategy, creativity, collaboration, and storytelling to explore how technology, cities, and communities evolve together.
We create space for complex conversations — and make them accessible, human, and useful.
From podcasts and whitepapers to partnerships and campaigns, Common Place curates projects that translate complexity into conversations people can join.
Flagship Series: The Data Challenge – Coming Soon.
A passion for creating spaces
Common Place works at the intersection of technology, governance, infrastructure, and place, focusing not just on what’s possible, but what’s practical, scalable, and meaningful.
Podcast series
that blend narrative storytelling with expert insight
Whitepapers & reports
that bridge research, policy, and practice
Partnership-led projects
with industry, government, and membership organisations
Strategic content & thought leadership
that supports long-term change
The Big Table
Common Place is designed as a big table:
a place where different disciplines, perspectives, and sectors can meet.
Progress happens when
We believe progress happens when:
- Technical expertise meets lived experience
- Policy meets practice
- Data meets culture
- Strategy meets story
At the table, no one voice dominates, but the conversation moves forward.
Flagship Series
The Data Challenge
Overcoming barriers to digital adoption
Coming Soon
The Data Challenge is a limited podcast series exploring why digital transformation in Australia and New Zealand so often stalls — not because of technology, but because of culture, governance, and data-sharing constraints.
Through in-depth interviews with government, industry, and city leaders, the series examines:
- Why data sharing remains so hard
- Where digital adoption breaks down in practice
- How government can drive scalable, trusted transformation
- Insights from the series will feed into a companion whitepaper, providing practical guidance for decision-makers across sectors.
Pull up a chair. Join the conversation.