Lived experience is knowledge
We design spaces where collective memory, present conversation, and future imagination converge.
How We Show Up
Living rooms. City halls. University labs. We design platforms and sit in circles. We create immersive documentaries and capture spatial audio. We work with organizers, researchers, policymakers, neighbors. We ask hard questions and stay for answers. When people share what they carry, something ignites. That's what we're here for.
Design Principles
Eight Commitments We Hold Onto
Our foundational principles. When we're not sure what to do, we start here.
Go to the Root
Band-aids don't work. We look at systems underneath, the ones people don't usually see.
Make Room for Healing
Communities carry history. We create space to name what happened before building what's next.
Build Together
We don't design for people. We design with them. From first conversation to final decision.
Start at the Margins
If it works for those who've been left out, it works for everyone. We center the edges.
More Than Words
Some people write. Some draw. Some need to move. We make room for all of it.
Think Like Nature
Nothing exists alone. No waste. Everything connects. We design like ecosystems, not machines.
Screens and Rooms
Apps can't replace sitting in a room together. But they can extend what happens there. We use both.
Share the Power
Who decides? Who benefits? We ask constantly. Then we redistribute.
What Moves Us
The path we follow through every project.
Start with a Question
Everything begins when someone asks "what matters most to you?" Not research. Invitation. Questions open doors that answers keep closed.
Talk to Each Other
Real conversation where you might change your mind. We create conditions for people to actually hear each other. In rooms. On screens. Whatever it takes.
Everyone Has a Story
Your block has stories that matter. We use 360° video and spatial tech to make those stories something you can step inside.
Stop and Think
We ask groups to look back at their hardest moments - tensions, breakthroughs, times everything almost fell apart. That's where learning lives.
Build Real Connections
Not networks. Not contacts. Actual relationships between people who didn't know each other before. That takes time. We build the scaffolding.
Keep Learning
We don't have it figured out. Every project teaches us something. We listen, adjust, try again. Communities push us to make it better.
Ready to build together?
Let's explore what's possible when technology serves communities, not the other way around.
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