Case Study
Accessible Design Workshop for Hawthorn Senior Apartments

We design with, not for communities. Our holistic approach to community engagement integrates stakeholder input throughout the process – from establishing relationships to navigating differences and reaching consensus.
We start by understanding how people would like to be engaged and what issues are important to them. These inputs guide us in creating highly customized engagement plans that lead to real community insights.
Because of our focus on meeting people where they are at, our community engagement programs:
Our approach to community engagement leads to tangible outcomes, such as:
We’ve successfully applied our community engagement approach to local and regional planning, strategic planning, policy development, service design, evaluation, and participatory research efforts across disciplines.