Our Role

  • To promote a collaborative culture in Fishermans Bend and to deliver activations and events that contribute to collaboration and network building

  • To support startups, scaleups and creative industries in Fishermans Bend - particularly those in the advanced manufacturing, engineering and design sectors

  • To bring together the tools, skills and partnerships to utilise existing buildings and sites while the precinct is in transition

We Do This By…

  • Making underutilised spaces available, affordable and fit for purpose for emerging and growing industries

  • Brokering connections, co-ordinating and being the point of contact for short and medium-term activity and opportunities within Fishermans Bend

  • Facilitating collaboration and network building by connecting key players – such as local businesses, investors, researchers, creative leaders and entrepreneurs – to Fishermans Bend, and to each other

  • Experimenting with design, process and the built environment

  • Bringing new, diverse innovators and disruptors into the ecosystem

  • Showcasing the creative utilisation of existing properties and underutilsed assets

  • Demonstrating a ‘Learn by doing’ approach, to inform the iterative design and function of longer-term investments

Our Philosophy

  • Lower barriers to entry

    We make Fishermans Bend accessible for startups and short-to-medium term opportunities through the low-cost provision of space and resources (including access to smarts and capabilities)

  • Start small and build momentum

    We embrace momentum and exist to make things happen quickly. We start small and prioritise projects that produce outcomes sooner rather than later, so we break down large scale sites, problems and challenges into smaller achievable and more manageable tasks that can be done today, and we start doing it (or support others to)

  • Invest in collaboration

    We facilitate collaboration between partners and stakeholders and look to foster collaboration opportunities for all projects we support. We also look to solve problems that fall between different organisations, roles and responsibilities and promote collective approaches to tackle them

  • Learn by doing and grow

    We demonstrate a ‘learn by doing’ approach and build on learnings and successes by moving into more ambitious opportunities as capacity grows.

  • Support diversity

    We celebrate and support a diversity of ideas, initiatives, partners and participants to get involved in Fishermans Bend.

  • Experiment, activate, interact and evolve

    We inform the long-term development of the wider urban renewal area by testing ideas in practice. We support a living lab of small-scale experiments and activities with the potential to iterate and evolve to inform bigger plans and projects for the future

  • Visibility

    We make innovation in Fishermans Bend visible to a broad audience, by putting experimentation and the process of innovation on display and inviting a network of partners, collaborators, investors and audiences to get involved