Futures worth inheriting.
I work at the intersection of governance, imagination, and place — asking who gets to speak, what counts as knowledge, and whose timeline matters.
Point A Studio is my practitioner-led speculative design and civic futures practice. I work with cities, planners, foundations, and community organizations on the decisions that shape places — and the waters, ancestors, and living systems that have been shaping them far longer.
Not as correctives to existing models. As their replacement.
My Core
Work
My work is built around three core practices. They shape how I work — not just what I deliver..
Speculative Governance & Civic Futures
I support communities and mission-driven organizations in moments of transition—helping them see what’s emerging and navigate uncertainty with purpose.
Through deep time framing, signals and place-rooted futures strategy, I widen what feels possible while grounding decisions in context and care. This is how long-horizon choices become visible now and futures worth inheriting become actionable.
Regenerative & Relational Design
I design in relationship.
My practice centers belonging, agency, and collective imagination— especially in places where futures have been constrained by displacement, disinvestment, or decisions made without the community. The work is regenerative by intention: expanding what communities can create, protect, and transform.
Teaching, Speaking & Methodology
I treat imagination as a strategic public capacity essential for navigating complexity and shaping shared futures.
Through university teaching, workshops, and public talks, I create spaces where people can feel the future, build alignment around what matters, and practice collective futures in real time.
Seed & Signal carries the thinking—tracking signals, surfacing patterns, and keeping curiosity alive between engagements.
→ A studio where futures thinking, speculative design, and community practice are the same work.
→ A studio where futures thinking, speculative design, and community practice are the same work.
Where My Work Resonates
I am invited in when familiar approaches no longer fit — and what's needed isn't a better process, but a different question.
I am often invited in when:
There is uncertainty or change—and no single “right” answer feels sufficient
Traditional planning tools feel too narrow for the depth and context of what’s unfolding
Participation must be relational, power-aware, and genuinely capacity-building
Place, belonging, and shared identity are central to the path forward
Long-horizon clarity is needed to move beyond urgency and into possibility
My work is not about quick fixes.
It's about changing who is in the room, whose knowledge counts, and how far into the future the room is willing to look.
Signature
Work
The Inundation Accord — a speculative climate governance workshop set in Fells Point, Baltimore in 2060, where a Chesapeake Oyster, a Night Heron, and sixteen humans negotiated a flood future and signed a binding accord in two hours.
Asking the Water First — a methodology that positions rivers, creeks, and living systems as the oldest planners in any corridor, developed through fieldwork with Irwin Creek in Charlotte's Historic West End.
Widening the Lens— a transnational systems sensing practice, in collaboration with Glo Mayne Davó of Glou Studio. Mexico City.