How can I experiment with a spatial transformation together with residents? How can I involve local communities in activating public spaces? How can I foster a sense of place?
Your Challenge
Cities need to envision and test the future of public spaces in ways that actively engage residents and build community. Traditional planning often lacks the tools for rapid experimentation and feedback, leading to solutions that don't fully resonate with the people who use them.
Our Solution
Tactical urbanism and placemaking provide the solution. We assist cities in developing iterative intervention strategies that deliver human-centered design principles, enhance quality of life, and foster a strong sense of place and belonging.
Tactical urbanism, as an iterative approach to urban planning, allows for quick testing and adaptation of ideas. Placemaking, a key example of this approach, focuses on creating community-driven spaces with a strong sense of place. Humankind has extensive experience in this, from creating parklets to our Happy Streets experimentation program.
We help cities create vibrant, people-centered public spaces through:
Spatial Strategies & Concepts: We develop prototypes and creative ideas to test future scenarios through participatory workshops and collaborative ideation.
On-Site Interventions & Activations: We design, produce, and implement participatory or tactical urbanism interventions to activate underused spaces and gather resident feedback. Our installations and spatial activations are designed to be engaging and impactful.
Human-Centered Design Principles: We process and condense learnings from participatory activities, interventions, and tests into actionable, contextualized, and human-centric design principles.
Let’s create human & kind cities together!
Contact us to explore how we can help bring your vision to life.
