civic-systems

collaborative > developing insights across the civic system, to reimagine relationships and catalyse change

research > narrative strategies, design frameworks and creative projects to inspire speculative imaginaries, with pragmatic, data-enhanced, sustainable foundations




convening > bringing creative practice to portfolio thinking: gathering by listening deeply

shimmering > designing frameworks for collective imagining: storytelling as wayfinding

collective > place-based immersion as a strategic response: delivering possibilities for change with civic agency

nothing about us, without us > care with language and invitation: when everyone contributes their human complexity, imagination and experience revives and regenerates the exhausted soil of existing systems

data > rebuilding the place-context for data in the everyday


studio practice

systems thinking as topology > design located in place

c-s: building capacity and capabilities for new models of civic collaboration – imagining, wayfinding, sensemaking, experimenting. Carefully bringing diverse stakeholders together to develop collective future visions. Intentionally pragmatic: deeply integrating with the social and economic practicalities of transformational policy making