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Sustainable Development Goals

Method
How?

Our method combines our research experience, urban design skills, and a problem-oriented approach to design sustainable cities in collaboration with city stakeholders.

RESEARCH

Research has become indispensable to advance sustainable development by addressing the most pressing global problems that cities are facing, such as climate change and affordable housing shortage.

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  • We offer a research expertise barely provided by design offices. The share of Research Doctorate in Architecture and Urban Planning awarded in the United States was 0.45% in 2021. (NSF, 2022) 

DESIGN

Our design knowledge can be applied at different urban scales, from user experience, buildings, districts, green spaces, to regions.

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  • Design Thinking has been increasingly recognized as "a problem-solving approach and a human-centered innovation" by putting people at the center of the design process and inviting them to co-create solutions. (UNDP)

  • Our experience in architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture can address the incommensurable constraints of urban problems from a spatial perspective.

TOGETHER

Today, global challenges demand collective action. The modern idea of the urbanist-hero that still dominates architecture and urban design services is outdated.

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  • We embrace the values promoted by the New European Bauhaus initiative for a beautiful, sustainable, and inclusive future.

Sources: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NSF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

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