Places.

Designing the built environment puts us at a unique intersection. We span technology, economics, local and global regulation, environmentalism, and the health and wellbeing of society. We craft the stage where lives – billions of them – play out every day.

The privilege, magnitude, complexity, and responsibility of this role can sometimes feel daunting. With every innovation, every development in how we work, and each impactful project, the need for more, better, newer seems to follow. The world feels fast, vast, and often out of control. Despite the pioneering developments they may feature, when projects take years to come to fruition, it can feel as though there’s always more that could be done.

So how do we combat that overwhelming feeling? How do we even begin to make changes that keep pace?

We explore.

Exploration is our way of believing in a better future. Discovery, direction, and development – in parallel with purpose – is all about moving forward. It doesn’t matter how little we know about what lies ahead… there is joy to be found in the not-knowing. In fact, the true joy comes from understanding that our decisions, our development, and our determination for better shapes what it will hold.

Together, we make a mosaic of visions for the future... each of us bringing our own unique aspirations, but also united by the collective desire for a thriving planet and human race. Achieving it requires the ultimate human challenge: “the art of thinking differently together”.

Exploration is grounded in hope. It’s being open to what you don’t yet see.

Hope, purpose, and participation is a potent fuel that allows “common people to attain uncommon results”. As a certain Charles Darwin said: “those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” Exploration on our own can be insightful; exploration with friends can be effective… but it’s exploration in tandem with others from all walks of life that brings about real change. When all voices are heard, progress happens… and if we count on each other – if we play our part in supporting the whole team – we might just win the game.

Cover photo courtesy of Nico Rosberg Photo (above) by Oladimej Odunsi on Unsplash

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Exploare.

The future belongs to the curious.

Challenge accepted.

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