Engage communities in change.
Design for participation, move people with purpose.
People seek purpose.
We share stories, abilities and experiences to feel that we belong. When our contribution is valued, we connect to a sense of purpose. What we give, we can expect. This reciprocity keeps us engaged in relationships that build dense networks and thriving places.
Connected communities drive change.
These small but repeated interactions generate trust and social capital. Our communities become stronger, smarter and more empowered.
At a time when institutions are struggling to respond to profound challenges, collective intelligence can surface inspiring solutions.
To gather, sometimes a little help is needed.
If it’s in our nature, and we know it matters, why do we find it hard to contribute our time and talents for the things we care about?
Disengagement is rarely an active choice. Most often, it is from missing a welcoming context in which to play a part.
Participation design gives a roadmap.
By making participation intentional, we can meet people’s desire to make a difference and build community around a compelling cause.
Participation design gives a frame to imagine that journey, helping with process, tools and practices.
participatory
research 🔍
Discover people’s resources, aspirations and origin story. How does the community see itself? What does it care about?
community
strategy 🎯
Define vision, goals and tactics into a Community Roadmap designed in collaboration.
co-created
experiences 💬
Design and facilitate experiences focused on building trust and harnessing collective intelligence.
Hi, I'm Alexandra.
The way people live together in different parts of the world fascinates me.
After several relocations, I learned to grow flexible roots, and noticed how belonging has conditions: a sense of shared place, cultivating a local identity and participating in community experiences.
In this journey I found a purpose.
Making it easier for people to come together around shared places and intentions, to imagine and act for a future that includes their aspirations, abilities and ingenuity.
At their best, communities are engines of transformation. People who pool resources to pursue bold ambitions.
I believe participation is a condition for belonging, public value, and change. Even change of the impossible kind.
approaches
asset-based development 💪
design & systems thinking 🕸️
community building 🤝
experience
research 🔍
strategy 🎯
facilitation 💬
fields of practice
urban innovation 🌆
civic engagement 📣
community philanthropy 💸
working languages