The Soul of Place

Purposeful Placemaking

Purpose + Place

We guide communities in envisioning regenerative and equitable places rooted in purpose and beauty.

Are you a developer, land owner, planner, or architect on a mission to reimagine the extractive and inequitable development model? Are you interested in cultivating a community of well-being and meaningful prosperity?

We offer a tailored process to help you uncover and articulate your place-based project's purpose and generational vision. We help you envision and define environments that apply biophilic design principles to foster equity, sustainability, and well-being—enriching all life.

A holistic strategy for envisioning your place-based project.

  • Aligning leadership team on vision and objectives for the project.

    • Defining shared values for leaders and project owners.

    • Site-specific experiential discovery

    • Soul of Place audit (history, ecology, culture, community, stories and more)

    • Defining the vision, values, mission, and purpose of the project.

    • Defining Decision Making Criteria & Guardrails

    • Stakeholder Interviews & definition of audiences.

    • Project Guidebook & Touchstone

  • We lead workshops with multidisciplinary teams to identify Biophilic design opportunities within existing spaces or for new projects in the built environment.

    • Wellness Communities

    • Museums

    • Adaptive Reuse

    • Parks, Gardens & Public Spaces

    • Venues

    • Recreation

    • Campuses

    • Art-centric Districts

    • Community Development

  • • Charrette Facilitation

    • Creative Direction / Co-creation

    • Venue Storytelling / Positioning

    • Creative Partner Briefs

    • Branding (with partners)