Our Services
As urban designers, we advocate for collaborative and inclusive placemaking. Our approach includes participatory activities, tailored to each project's scale and scope as well as to the age or other special characteristics of each target group. By designing the appropriate combination of activities, our inclusive placemaking method aims to understand and reflect diverse community needs, during the whole project cycle: from the diagnostic stage and co-design process to co-implementation and co-maintenance. By ensuring an appropriate for each target group engagement process, our method results into meaningful and applicable outcomes for the placemaking process. Most importantly, our inclusive placemaking activities help develop a sense of co-ownership for successful and long-lasting interventions in the public realm.
Our niche expertise lies in providing high-quality open spaces that enhance children's health and well-being. Schoolyards are essential environments where children and youth spend significant time. By incorporating natural elements, schoolyards can promote children's health and offer opportunities for natural play, fostering the development of motor, social, and cognitive skills. Our schoolyard co-design method helps to collaboratively create nature-based, accessible and inclusive schoolyards, by involving children in every step of the project, from initial design to maintenance. Additional to our co-designing schoolyard method, creating natural schoolyards covers the technical design and maintenance framework for the collaborative schoolyards.
As public space enthusiasts, particularly fascinated with how people shape the city’s public realm, our work focuses mainly on urban design solutions at the street level, such as incremental street interventions or public space frameworks that improve the quality of life at the neighborhood scale. Our projects range from placemaking frameworks to designing innovative place-based solutions.
We design and execute inclusive, holistic stakeholder and community engagement and outreach strategies to understand and reflect diverse community and client needs in planning. Our methods include various techniques that range from surveys and workshops to focus groups and hands-on activities. In doing so, we develop a unique project-tailored structured process that combines traditional participatory methods with innovative ICT tools ensuring equal accessibility and appropriateness for all involved participants. The scale of our projects ranges from large-scale masterplans to neighborhood level interventions.
Driven by our commitment to empowering children and young people to shape climate-resilient cities, we have focused on developing educational activities and communication materials that raise awareness about climate change and sustainable urban design. Our goal is to provide the next generation with the knowledge and tools on how nature-based design solutions can improve their communities and let them develop their ideas on how to help their schoolyards and neighbourhoods to mitigate the effects of climate change and transform into sustainable and vibrant spaces to live in.
Our Work
Schoolyard re-design
[nursery school in Thessaloniki, GR]
[nursery school in Thessaloniki, GR]
Schoolyard re-design
[nursery school in Thessaloniki, GR]
[nursery school in Thessaloniki, GR]
Participatory Mapping
Thessaloniki Safe Routes to School Scheme
[part of Resilient Thessaloniki team]
Thessaloniki Safe Routes to School Scheme
[part of Resilient Thessaloniki team]
Multi-stakeholder workshop for
transit-oriented development
[part of Resilient Thessaloniki team]
transit-oriented development
[part of Resilient Thessaloniki team]
Schoolyard re-design
[Elementary School in Thessaloniki, GR]
[Elementary School in Thessaloniki, GR]