The built environment is one of the largest drivers of global greenhouse gas emissions and energy use. We focus on redesigning how we build, materialize, and inhabit our world—centering resilience, human health, and climate justice. Target areas: early design decisions, materials, and systems.
Local Economies
“Hyper-local” resilience is driven by real pressures: climate extremes, supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and shifting values around quality, authenticity, and sustainability. We support place-based strategies that strengthen local jobs, skills, and production capacity while remaining connected to regional and global networks.
Governance
We operationalize resilience through practice. We designed our organization as an adaptive systems lab—distributed, collaborative, and responsive to change. We name underlying systems that harm human dignity and earth, design governance structures that evolve us, and transform these systems with our collaborative partners . By building resilience into how we operate, not just what we build, we co-create the future.