Futures worth inheriting.™
I'm a futurist and designer. I help communities imagine and embody the futures they'll pass on, together.
My work sits at the scale most planning misses — a city block, a small town, a rural county — where governance actually happens: who gets to speak, what counts as knowledge, whose timeline matters.
Through Point A Studio, I work with the people and places where decisions get made, alongside the waters, histories, and living systems that have been shaping those places far longer.
Most foresight and futures work is built for a single organization's strategy. My practice works at community scale — I help the people who'll actually live with a decision imagine multiple possible futures and then embody them, out loud, before any one becomes policy.
How I Work
Advisory & Consulting
For city offices, foundations, and architecture or planning firms who need this layer built into a live decision. I join as part of the team already doing the work — strengthening a proposal or process that's already in motion.
Civic Futures & Long-Range Strategy
I work with communities at the moment familiar planning tools stop working — widening what feels possible by rooting decisions in place, in the long view, and in knowledge the official process usually never reaches.
Relational & Regenerative Design
I design in relationship, not around people — centering belonging, agency, and collective imagination, especially in places shaped by displacement, disinvestment, or decisions made without the community.
Teaching, Speaking & Methodology
Through university teaching, workshops, and public talks, I help people locate what they're actually working toward and build the practice of imagining together, in real time. Seed & Signal, my public research journal, tracks signals and keeps this thinking alive between engagements.
Imagination is a civic capacity.
Whoever gets to imagine a place's future shapes who it's built for.
Belonging comes before ownership.
No plan holds unless the people living with it feel it's theirs.
Place is a Partner.
Lands, waters, histories, and the living beings who share them don't just inform a decision — they participate in it.
Story is infrastructure.
The story a place tells about itself decides what happens to it next.
Principles
Where My Work Resonates
I'm usually brought in when:
The usual tools have stopped fitting. Traditional planning feels too narrow or reactive for what's actually unfolding — climate pressure, rapid growth, displacement.
Engagement alone isn't enough. The process needs to genuinely redistribute power and treat lived experience as central, not a checkbox.
Belonging has to be built, not assumed. Place, memory, and shared identity are foundational to whether a plan holds — not a soft extra.
The room is ready to think in decades, not quarters.
I don't do conventional strategic planning or quick fixes. I change who's in the room, whose knowledge counts, and how far into the future the room is willing to look.
Signature
Work
A Field Almanac for Listening — a five-step listening practice for Charlotte, one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, asking water, birds, cracks, sky, and people what's already here before deciding together what the city keeps, changes, or becomes.
The Inundation Accord — a speculative climate governance workshop set in Fells Point, Baltimore in 2060, where a Chesapeake Oyster, a Night Heron, and sixteen humans negotiated a flood future and signed a binding accord in two hours.
Asking the Water First — a methodology that positions rivers, creeks, and living systems as the oldest planners in any corridor, developed through fieldwork with Irwin Creek in Charlotte's Historic West End.
Widening the Lens— a transnational systems sensing practice co-led with Glo Mayne Davó of Glou Studio in Mexico City, where two designers across a generation and a border use somatic and embodied methods to understand what’s moving beneath the surface.