Urbana East builds a growing suite of instruments — from board-based workshops to data platforms — that help schools, universities, communities, and city teams read what their neighbourhoods mean before they decide what to do with them.
A facilitated card-and-board exercise that teaches people how real planning decisions get made. Players build proposals using stakeholders, urban elements, policies, and visions — while managing budget and engagement targets.
Teams take on real planning challenges and build proposals using four card decks — stakeholders, urban elements, policies, and visions — while managing a budget and engagement target.
A professional platform for capturing the living cultural intelligence of neighbourhoods. Used by planning teams, government, and heritage bodies to inform stakeholder engagement and urban planning projects.
A standardised protocol for capturing community narratives, cultural categories, and physical place anchors at neighbourhood scale.
Every narrative connects to a mental-map totem on a real map. Outputs are GIS-compatible and integrate into existing planning workflows.
Distinguishes what a place is today, what it was, what it is becoming, and what residents envision — in a single integrated dataset.
The next layer of instruments — tools that translate community intelligence into actual placemaking decisions, designs, and interventions.
A real-time collaborative augmented-reality tool that lets participants test placemaking interventions on site — furniture, greenery, lighting, signage — before any physical change is committed.
Participatory design tools, community vision platforms, and other instruments designed to take the intelligence Strata captures and turn it into shared action with communities and design teams.
Whether you're a school facilitator, a planning team, or a foundation interested in partnership — we'd be glad to talk through which instrument fits your need and how it's deployed.
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