Ideas

Positions we hold, dated by the year they began.

Each idea is published before the work, and every project is an example of one. They change as the places we work on teach us more.

2022Ground Before FormLand comes before buildings. Where an owner has already restored the land, our job is to turn it into a district people actually use.
2022Public Space as Social InfrastructureA bench, a shaded edge, a room left open at dusk. These are infrastructure. They decide how a place feels to be in.
2023Learning Belongs to Its GroundStudios, kitchens, fields and trails work as a classroom. What is learned from a place stays with it.
2026A Place Needs a KeeperCities are built once and lived in every day. Somebody has to be answerable for how a place feels, month after month.
2026 · Peer-reviewed paper, IJSSCEmergence of a New Governance?A study of Singapore's pilot business improvement district scheme, and where the Experience Improvement District began.