D + S COLLABORATIVE
Design strategies for creative community development.
D + S COLLABORATIVE
Design strategies for creative community development.
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Design strategies for creative community development.
RESEARCH
Applying holistic methods for urban and rural planning, ensuring that local voices are front and center, present, ensuring participants are seen and heard.
This approach helps communities shape their own places and promotes design strategies for a more just social and economic environment.
Integrating artistic practices and scientific research D + S Collaborative gathers communities to visualize systems, to shift narratives, and to explore new possibilities for preservation and climate actions.
Community Engagement
Specializing in public forums to foster dialogue, expand impact, and to build consensus on complex issues. Regenerate more connected, resilient communities through public-private partnerships.
CULTURAL ASSET MAPPING
Inventoried local murals at the intersection of Route 66 + El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro located in the Historic Barelas District, Albuquerque, NM
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Piloted Wingtra , Drones for Duck, Rowan Converse, Ph. D, Bosque del Apache, National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, NM.
CLIMATE ACTION PLANNING
View of New Mexico Highlands University - Participated in developing a three-year Climate Action Plan for the President's Office and Facilities
ARCHIVAL RESEARCH
Researched the historic legacy of transportation routes and connections to Albuquerque, Santa FE and the Greater Southwest, Borderlands Region. (photo SWCR)
Research collaborations may include the following actions:
Research collaborations may include the following actions:
Investigate, document and present historic sites and landscapes to engage and to educate the public dialogue on their complex issues.
Provide analogue and digital spaces to tell those diverse stories.
Through these preservation actions and creative initiatives, advocate for cultural policy making and implementation at the city, state and federal level.
WORKSHOPS
Facilitate visioning sessions with community stakeholders and the general public.
Through live and online workshops we empower each other to develop, to plan and to design thriving spaces and places.
LABS
Informed by community input utilizing media and technology to uncover the deeply layered stories embedded within the place where they are living or eager to learn more about.
Archival Photos for the South Barelas Neighborhood from the from the 1960s. (photo credit: National Hispanic Cultural Center)
D + S collaborates with the public interest groups and strategic partners to lead our transformative engagements—ranging from workshop facilitation, asset mapping and immersive exhibitions to strategic planning and interpretive signage and way finding.
METHODS
+ strategic advisement + recommendations
+ workshop facilitation
+ research collaboration
ACTIVITIES
+ cultural landscape + preservation assessments
+ spatial + facilities planning
Archival Mapping: Santa Fe National Forest, Pre-1937 Alignment of Route 66
OUTCOMES
+ Strategic planning documents
+ Collections management
+ festivals, conferences, exhibitions
+ University, STEM-STEAM, K-12 arts and science programs
+ Public Arts Programs
IMPACTS
+ campaign outreach
+ promotional awareness to targeted audiences that meet and/ or exceed projected goals
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