Communities and institutions often face decisions whose consequences extend decades into the future. Strategic visioning combines research, mapping, design, and visual communication to clarify opportunities, test ambitious possibilities, and establish a shared direction for future investment. Strategic Visioning deliverables provide feasibility potential and contribute to securing project funding.

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Allensworth Community Plan

EDF / Multibenefit Land Repurposing (San Joaquin Valley, CA)

Climate Resilience Environmental Education Center (CREEC)

Scenario planning uses mapping, research, and design to compare alternative futures and make their consequences visible. The process helps communities and decision-makers evaluate tradeoffs, identify shared priorities, and prepare for environmental and social change.

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EDF / Multibenefit Land Repurposing (San Joaquin Valley, CA)

Transform Climate Communities (Allensworth Green Infrastructure)

Community planning and supporting community-led design is fundamental to the practice. Engagement is sustained over long periods of time in order to develop networks of trust. These sustained relationships typically evolve into multiple collaborations in the same locale. It brings local knowledge, community aspirations, environmental conditions, and implementation needs into a shared framework. Methods of engagement are creative, community-specific and community-led.

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Allensworth Community Plan

Willowbrook Community Monuments

Transform Climate Communities (Allensworth Green Infrastructure)

Landscape architecture unites ecological performance, cultural meaning, and human experience. Projects range from memorial and civic landscapes to greenways, public spaces and infrastructure, and conceptual site designs developed in response to the particular histories and environmental conditions of place. Deliverables include conceptual design through early construction documentation.

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Sandy Hook Memorial

Arts Center Performance Area

HyperNATURES

Allensworth Community Cemetery

Place-based research uncovers the environmental, cultural, and social histories embedded in landscapes. These histories provide a foundation for planning, design, interpretation, and stewardship while bringing overlooked people, practices, and narratives into public view. This research often leads to more formal historic preservation and cultural resource protections.

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Willowbrook Community Monuments

Pruitt Igoe (Recipe Landscape)

In Kinship with the Oak (Grand Park, LA)

On Phantom Shores (exhibition/forthcoming book)

Cultural landscape and preservation work connects historical research with contemporary planning and design. Deliverables include the documentation of significant landscapes - assessing their evolving conditions, and developing strategies for protection, interpretation, adaptation, and long-term stewardship.

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Allensworth Community+Historic Cemetery

Willowbrook Community Monuments

Allensworth Community Plan

Long-term visions require practical paths toward realization. Implementation frameworks establish priorities, phases, design standards, preliminary costs, funding opportunities, and decision-making structures that help communities advance complex physical and capital projects over time.

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Willowbrook Community Monuments

Allensworth Community Plan

Regenerative Housing Frameworks

Transform Climate Communities

Climate and water planning addresses the interconnected effects of drought, flooding, groundwater decline, extreme heat, biodiversity loss, and environmental inequality. The work integrates landscape systems, community priorities, and long-term planning to develop resilient and locally appropriate responses.

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EDF / Multibenefit Land Repurposing (San Joaquin Valley, CA)

Transform Climate Communities (Allensworth Green Infrastructure)

Climate Resilience Environmental Education Center (CREEC)

Multi-benefit landscapes make public investment work harder by integrating water management, habitat, shade, mobility, recreation, public health, diverse economies and economic development, and community identity. Infrastructure is developed using nature-based solutions that perform ecologically while creating meaningful public landscapes and diversifying land use to better secure precarious futures.

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Transform Climate Communities (Allensworth Green Infrastructure)

EDF / Multibenefit Land Repurposing (San Joaquin Valley, CA)

Allensworth Community Plan

Interpretation and storytelling connect people to the histories, ecologies, and cultural meanings of place. This work may take the form of interpretive landscapes, monuments, exhibitions, public narratives, installations, or frameworks that guide future communication and engagement.

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Willowbrook Community Monuments

Pruitt Igoe (Recipe Landscape)

In Kinship with the Oak (Grand Park, LA)

Allensworth Community+Historic Cemetery

The Other California

Working with communities, institutions, and public agencies to address environmental and social inequities through planning, design, and research improves public health, strengthens cultural identity and local ecologies, and expands access to opportunity. Projects integrate community knowledge with environmental systems to create more resilient and equitable places.

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Allensworth Community Plan

Transform Climate Communities (Allensworth Green Infrastructure)

Pruitt Igoe (Recipe Landscape)

EDF / Multibenefit Land Repurposing (San Joaquin Valley, CA)

The practice designs landscapes that invite participation through movement, ritual, and sensory experience. From memorials and installations to performance spaces and public landscapes, the work considers the body as an active participant in shaping the meaning of place.

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Garden as Garment

Gibigiana

Art Center Performance Space

Sandy Hook Memorial