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Future Village offers innovative and sustainable solutions for delivering free-standing green infrastructure to areas where access to green space is limited. This involves our products combining and being placed in urban centres or on building rooftops without excavation or penetration.
Our nature-based approach creates an ecosystem that reduces ambient air temperature and heat penetration, effectively mitigating urban heat islands.
For local communities this provides opportunities for relaxation, social interaction, and physical activity which can help reduce stress, and improve mental health.
Our system enhances the aesthetic appeal of local neighbourhoods and provides a flexible way to test new park designs and uses. Overall, Future Village is committed to creating sustainable solutions that benefit both people and the environment.
See our Future Village Placemaking Brochure and our Green Infrastructure Products Brochure
Future Village is the new trading name of Plantabox & People Parkers that reflects the business's direction and growth towards creating green infrastructure that is free standing, modular and moveable allowing living plants to be used in new and dynamic ways.
Our team specialises in design and engineering, manufacturing, placemaking, horticulture, soil science, logistics. We design, manufacture, install and maintain parklets, floating gardens, roof top gardens, canopies, planters, furniture and bespoke products.
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Future Village has origins in Strathayr, an Australian leader in sports turf technology that has over the last 20 years developed portable sports surface products such as portable sports fields and drop-in cricket wickets that our sister brand Portagrass manages. This background has installed a passion for precision and quality componentry and design in manufacturing products that can last in the Australian public environment.
2016 - StrathAyr Portable formed by splitting off the R&D devision from StrathAyr.
2016 - Designed and provided Floriade in Canberra with large scale portable flower beds so the festival could increase their range of displays without having to dig-up the surrounding park.
2018 - launched our range of Plantaboxes with changeable facing and seat attachments
2018 - installed our first parklet for the ACT City Renewal Authority
2019 - released our Plantabox Turf trays - world first.
2020 - renamed to Plantabox Pty Ltd
2020 - installed our 10th parklet at Coogee for Randwick City Council that won the 2021 Place Leaders Awards - small scale place project
2020 - installed our first floating garden for Wollongong City Council
2020 - launched our free standing decking trays at Campbelltown
2021 - launched our hanging baskets with water reservoirs and wicking - world first. Waverley City Council.
2021 - launched shade canopies to attach to our large plantaboxes.
2022 - installed our 20th parklet at St Mary's Penrith City Council.
2022 - launched option to clad all planters in stainless steel, powder coated steel, Cor-ten
2022 - purchased People Parkers, the Australian leader in single unit moveable parklets.
2022 - launched our modular pergola units for Sutherland Shire Council
2023 - formed partnership with Urban Canopee
2023 - launched our Plantabarrier system
2024 - Trading name change to Future Village
we continue to design, build, install and maintain activations that have bought greenery into the greyscape. For examples of all these projects check out Our Work.
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