The Work
Practitioner-led foresight and design across speculative research, civic practice, and collaborative methods
The Inundation Accord
A climate governance workshop set in Fells Point, Baltimore in 2060, where six human and four more-than-human participants negotiate a flood management agreement. An original contribution to rights-of-nature frameworks and speculative civic methodology, developed as graduate thesis work.
Jones Falls 2076 / The River as Mayor
A participatory futures project imagining Baltimore fifty years forward — where Jones Falls has been elected Mayor and convened the first Multi-Species Council. Explores legal personhood for waterways, amphibious urbanism, and water as governance actor.
Asking the Water First
A participatory method for embedding watershed voice into planning and governance, developed through fieldwork with Irwin Creek in Charlotte's Historic West End. Selected for the 2026 Reimagining I-77 South exhibition at UNC Charlotte Center City.
Food Obituary
A participatory research method using obituary form and memorial language to make the environmental cost of food waste tangible and grievable. Developed in response to SDG 12 Target 12.3 — which calls to halve global food waste by 2030 — and designed for community settings where data alone doesn't move people.
The Civic Compass
A Futures Lab with Charlotte Woman of the Year to co-create shared navigational infrastructure for the city's transition.
Participants built a Civic Compass — a living framework for long-horizon stewardship..
Vision Zero Youth Lab
A Future Streets Lab where BIPOC youth in Baltimore designed safety interventions and built Artifacts from 2035 to shift the city's Vision Zero Action Plan from engineering fixes toward a culture of visibility and mutual care.
The Civic Almanac
A series of foresight and innovation workshops with Charlotte cross-sector leaders, moving from reactive governance toward regenerative stewardship. Participants co-created the Civic Almanac — a living resource for navigating uncertainty.
Thriving Neighborhoods
A cross-sector convening in New York City where organizers, artists, and policymakers used sensory world-building to imagine community-led futures. Together they produced a Vision Mosaic — a living blueprint for regenerative neighborhoods.
What if the Park Dreamed Back?
A futuers workshop designed for the Our Parks × TEN Baltimore Symposium, treating the park as co-author of its own future through reflection, dialogue, and creative prompts. Participants left voicemails from 2075 — nine voices that became the first Futures Line recording, a sound artifact carried forward into future workshops.
Scenario Planning
A participatory scenario planning engagement with Community Building Initiative to map three plausible futures for the organization across a twenty-year horizon. The process surfaced strategic pathways — from capacity building catalyst to integrated change maker — through inclusive, multi-stakeholder foresight.
World Café — Neighborhood Board Retreat
Co-designed and facilitated the City of Charlotte's first-ever World Café Neighborhood Board Retreat, bringing together 55 residents from 11 neighborhoods for structured rounds of dialogue on community priorities and collaborative solutions.
Charlotte 2050
A futures thinking workshop as part of Charlotte's Mayor's Racial Equity Initiative, using sensory imagination and an adapted First Five Minutes game to immerse participants in "unthought" futures for racial equity. Participants moved beyond reactive planning to co-create long-horizon strategies for a more equitable Charlotte by 2050.
