Become Your Best 

This is where our journey begins. Get to know our business and what we do, and how we're committed to quality and great service. Join us as we grow and succeed together. We're glad you're here to be a part of our story.

Pathways

Becoming your best self qualities and habits ofmulti-modal intelligence in an urban context of complexity, uncertainty, risk, and opportunity.

  • Ethical values: Act with integrity.
  • Discipline: Cultivate habits of purposeful intelligence, empathy, and self-control.
  • Inclusion and equity: Value and connect with people across boundaries.
  • Adaptive innovation: Discover innovative solutions to complex challenges.
  • Resilience: Welcome challenges as an opportunity to grow.
  • Collaboration:Share power and resources to envision and strive for the common good.

Understanding urban challenges as a convergence of systemic global and local forces shaping city habitat, people, communities, power, and economies.

  • Humans have become an urban species, with the majority of people now living in urban areas.
  • Cities are a human invention built for commerce, but not for human wellbeing.
  • The livability of cities is an adaptive challenge that will determine the future of humanity and the planet.
  • Most cities have not galvanized theresources and managerial capacities to resolve their livability challenges.
  1. Exploring placemaking innovation strategies to foster more livable cities: Livable habitat, healthy people, resilient communities, empowered citizens, and inclusive prosperity.
  • Cities are places where people and the built environment can harmonize with nature.
  • Cities can be designed for human livability and livelihood.
  • Cities are rich in untapped human talent.
  • Humans have a history of creating successful, innovative solutions to adaptive challenges.
  • The next generation can seize the adaptive challenge of urbanization to build livable places for a livable future.

 

Beyond the ordinary

This is where our journey begins. Get to know our business and what we do, and how we're committed to quality and great service. Join us as we grow and succeed together. We're glad you're here to be a part of our story.

Building your placemaking innovation toolkit – skills and practices that enable you to transform urban livability challenges into business innovation opportunities for prosocial impact and equity.

  • Data resources: Curated data and information sources
  • Technology: Data visualization software, digital media
  • Interpretive methods: Mash-up ethnography, appreciative inquiry, soundprints, asset mapping, performance art, narrative
  • Integrative: Critical reflection, journaling, mindfulness
  • Interactive: Design thinking, teamwork, focus groups, collaborative processes, consensus, empathic listening, focused conversation

Growing your urban innovation network of boundary-spanning collaborative partnerships to accelerate innovative action for urban livability impact and equity

  • Personal: Friends and family
  • Academic: Classmates, faculty, & alumni
  • Professional: Formal and informal groups of shared occupational and business sector identities, interests, and pursuits
  • Affiliation: Formal and informal voluntary associations and groups of shared interests, identity, purpose, location, or concerns
  • Intentional: Groups and associations of shared commitment to specific goals or purposes