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
‘caring more about well-researched wonder than about closing down possibilities through expertise’ //
AUDRE LORD / Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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