Our co-creative projects combine popular education with co-design methodology and trauma-informed facilitation to build skills and produce inspiring and impactful work. Our workshops are joyful, hands-on, and uniquely designed to meet the needs of the participants. We co-create with people at all skill levels, including seniors, kids, teens, and folks with various literacy levels.

Our approach to co-creation is built on a commitment to:

Creative capacity building

We are deeply invested in redistributing power through creative design processes. We believe that self-representation and self-determination are paramount to capacity building and empowerment.

Re-imagining expertise

We seek to challenge and complicate the distinction between “designer” and “non-designer” by acknowledging the genius and wisdom that our participants already have. For us, design is all about re-imagination and creating new possibilities, and people with lived experience navigating and surviving systems of oppression and colonization already do this every day.

Meaningful support

We ultimately want to help people be their best selves. Whether it’s leveraging co-creative projects into paid employment opportunities for marginalized folks, or providing references and enthusiastic encouragement beyond the life of the project, we are dedicated to providing caring supporting to our co-creators where it matters most. We meet people where they’re at and seek to name and celebrate their skills and their inherent value in the world.