Futures worth inheriting.
Governance, imagination, and place. I work where they are inseparable — asking who gets to speak, what counts as knowledge, and whose timeline matters.
Through Point A Studio, I work with the people and places where decisions are made — and with the waters, ancestors, and living systems that have been shaping those places far longer.
Not as correctives to existing models. As their replacement.
My Core
Work
My work is built around three core practices. They shape how I work — not just what gets produced.
Speculative Governance & Civic Futures
I work with communities and civic organizations at the moment familiar approaches stop working — helping them reorient by changing whose line of sight they stand in.
Through deep time framing, signals and place-rooted futures strategy, I widen what feels possible, rooting decisions in place, in the long view, and in the knowledge the official process was never designed to reach. This is how long-horizon choices become visible now and futures worth inheriting become something the community can practice before they exist in law.
Regenerative & Relational Design
I design in relationship.
My practice centers belonging, agency, and collective imagination— especially in places where futures have been constrained by displacement, disinvestment, or decisions made without the community. The work is regenerative by intention: expanding what communities can create, protect, and transform.
Teaching, Speaking & Methodology
I treat imagination as a strategic public capacity essential for governing what has never been governed before.
Through university teaching, workshops, and public talks, I create spaces where people can feel the future, locate what they are actually fighting for, and practice collective foresight in real time.
Through Seed & Signal, my public journal and living research practice, I track signals, surface patterns, and keep curiosity alive between engagements.
→ A studio where futures thinking, speculative design, and community practice are the same work.
→ A studio where futures thinking, speculative design, and community practice are the same work.
Where My Work Resonates
I am invited in when familiar approaches no longer fit — and a community needs to practice a new way of deciding their future together before it exists in law or institution.
I am often invited in when:
There is a Crisis of Rigidity: Traditional planning tools feel too narrow and reactive for the depth of what is actually unfolding (climate pressure, displacement, or rapid transition).
Participation Must Be Regenerative: "Engagement-as-usual" is no longer enough; the process must actively redistribute power and treat lived experience as primary.
Belonging is Infrastructure: Place, memory, and shared identity must be treated as load-bearing civic infrastructure rather than secondary benefits.
Deep Time is Required: A community is ready to reject the friction of the emergency register and design for ancestral rhythms and multi-generational possibility.
I do not do traditional strategic planning or offer quick fixes. My work is about changing who is in the room, whose knowledge counts, and how far into the future the room is willing to look.
Signature
Work
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.