We are a design, research, and strategy studio that seeks to deeply understand future-facing, community-engaged topics through hands-on making and workshops.
We aim to make design thinking and foresight accessible and community-oriented through short-term consulting. We are curious about combining tools and methods – from multiple adjacent fields of design thinking, futures and foresight, systems thinking, creative research, and critical making – and applying them to solve meaningful problems.
Every quarter, we immerse ourselves in a topic of our interest, from the natural environment to AI. We work with interdisciplinary partners through collaborative inquiry, give back and empower the community. We showcase our learnings and explorations at the end of each period through a creative medium.
Values
We value an immersive, felt experience.
Art, visual, hand’s on. Not just reports and decks!
We work with intention.
Realistic but outside the box. We think at all levels.
We think beyond ourselves.
Community, sustainability and equity. We measure our impact and potential unintended consequences.
We engage in thoughtful questioning.
Redesigning systems requires rigorous and thoughtful questioning. We deploy our intellectual curiosity to boldly inquire about what is possible.
We center community-engaged knowledge creation.
We use tools from design and strategy to make sense of experiences of community members.
We strive towards sustainable experimentation.
There is no wasted work, no wasted conversations. We believe in net positive efforts and impact.