Founded by Kate Spencer, Wildcard Collective builds on over 20 years' experience overseeing the strategic and creative direction and delivery of award-winning and innovative projects in Australia and internationally.
Drawing on Kate's diverse experience and expertise, Wildcard Collective brings together a range of initiatives, collaborations and strategic projects across the cultural, creative, tourism, built environment and education sectors.
The breadth of projects and the way we work doesn't fit neatly into a box, but that's the way Wildcards work to deliver meaningful impact. The value comes from the eclectic mix of experience and perspectives.
Wildcard Collective combines boundary spanning curiosity with deep expertise and broad experience to unlock unique insights, create new opportunities and deliver new approaches. We build multi-disciplinary teams and strategic partnerships for each project and we nurture collaboration at each step along the way.
Working with diverse clients, partners and collaborators Wildcard Collective provides a range of services to help bring ideas, places, stories and experiences to life.
> Creative advisory and concepts
> Project scoping and direction
> Project management
> Exhibition and interpretation planning
> Place activation strategies
> Stakeholder mapping
> Community and industry engagement
> Ecosystem and network development
> Public programming and events
> Exploratory research and sensemaking
> Report writing
> Presentations
> Skills mapping
> Creativity coaching
> Careers coaching and mentoring
> Facilitation and workshops
> Designing learning experiences
Kate Spencer is a designer and creative producer with diverse experience spanning the creative industries. She has worked on numerous place-based and narrative-led projects in Melbourne, Sydney, Malaysia, Mexico and Canada.
Her experience spans experience design, strategic communications, placemaking, museums, public art, heritage interpretation, storytelling, cultural tourism, exploratory research and community building.
She blends a creative, pragmatic and entrepreneurial approach with highly developed project management and stakeholder engagement skills to shape projects, lead multi-disciplinary teams and broker strategic partnerships that deliver long term impact.
Alongside her work at Wildcard Collective, Kate is also the Partnerships, Networking and Engagement Lead for FB IDEAs and an Adjunct Senior Industry Fellow with RMIT University's Centre for Future Skills and Workforce Transformation, FORWARD.