What We Do
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Training
We design and deliver engaging workshops that help communities, city staff, and organizations build their placemaking muscles. Each session blends theory, case studies, and hands-on learning to inspire and equip participants for real-world action. Project Highlight: We created Gathering Places with Oregon Metro in order to showcase and train BIPOC placemakers. This three-part digital series helped share lived experience of placemaking projects from inside the region matched with national experts in the field. |
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Technical Assistance & Advising
Our team supports clients through strategy sessions, site visits, and tailored consulting—helping turn complex challenges into actionable plans. Whether it’s designing activation programs or forming public–private partnerships, we guide you every step of the way. Project Highlight: We worked with the Mayor's Office of the Public Realm, Pratt Unviersity and other partners from the Alliance for Public Space to research, create events, tours and a summary of issues facing the public realm across New York City in our Public Realm Roundtable. |
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Symposiums
We convene leaders, doers, and dreamers for in-person learning experiences—from global conferences to local site exchanges. These gatherings spark collaboration, innovation, and new relationships across cities. Project Highlight: WOW! World of Waterfronts brought seven waterfront management organizations together to help breathe life into the City of Long Beach's 2030 Shoreline Vision |
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Communications & Promotion
Placemaking is storytelling. We help amplify your work through articles, photography, video, webinars, and network promotion—connecting your project to a wider community of practice across the U.S. and beyond. Project Highlight: Our Digital Town Showcase of placemaking efforts in Salisbury, Maryland helped build connections and recognition for a variety fo placemaking efforts that were interconnected. |
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Project & Program Development
From small pilots to multi-year initiatives, we help shape and launch programs that bring public spaces to life. We assist with stakeholder engagement, funding strategies, communications, and implementation. Project Highlight: Our Reconnect South Park Media & Outreach Plan is part of the federal Reconnecting Communities program to re-imagine highways being returned to affordable housing, open space and deelopment opportunities. |
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Research, Reports & Guides
We help organizations reflect, learn, and grow by reviewing programs, gathering insights, and action plans and producing clear, actionable reports that communicate results to funders and the public. Project Highlight: Let's Talk About Placemaking is a national round-up of placemaking terminology, frameworks and good practice projects created as a national baseline of understanding for the Canadian Urban Institute. |
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Placemaking Exchange
A Placemaking Exchange is where we bring a few placemakers to your town to activate a bigger conversation about what's possible in a certain theme or place. Project Highlight: Our Out East Legacy Neighborhood Placemaking Exchange of Jacksonville helped up the game with the establishment of a place management organization, major partnersips, projects accomplished and a whole new position to the neighbors. |
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Placemaking Weekends
Bring your community together for a weekend of activation, art-making, and co-creation. These immersive events transform public spaces into living laboratories for connection and creativity. Project Highlight: We created Placemaking Weekend Miami with arts-space providers, Zero Empty Spaces to show the many flavors of cultural and artists revitilization in Miami. |
