Tell your own story, in your own voice.
Together, we can pinpoint your purpose, identify your audiences, fine-tune your message, and create engaging experiences that resonate with truth and authenticity.
Interpretive Planning
Plan your impact. Take the first step on your experience planning journey with a strategically guided exploration of your interpretive purpose, goals, audiences, themes, and budget. This process results in an Interpretive Plan—a strategic document outlining the core elements of your visitor experience, from exhibits to programs, podcasts to guerrilla campaigns. In addition to playing a vital role in bringing your vision into reality, your interpretive plan can also be a valuable tool for fundraising.
Exhibit Design
Make your mark. Put your story in physical or digital space for your community and the world to learn its truth. We’ve designed experiences on the landscape and in galleries from 600 to 35,000 ft². Immersive video installations to poetic text and commissioned art. Web exhibits to heritage trails. Always in support of your goals and amplifying your voices.
Assessments and Consults
Seek opinions. We focus our work on collaboration and engagement, but let’s be honest: that takes time and adds cost. Sometimes you just need advice from a seasoned expert to get started. Bring us out to assess your existing exhibit, to help you along your journey with stakeholders, to suggest ways to increase your reach and impact. Let’s talk about your needs and ways we can help on a limited budget and timeframe.
Who we work for
We serve communities directly and through existing museums, parks, agencies, planners, architects, and landscape architects.
Communities
When we hear “our story is not told by the local historical society” or “our voices are not represented at the state museum,” we want to be in service to you. YOU ARE OUR PRIMARY MISSION. We can help you tell your own story, in your own voices.
Existing Museums & Sites
Many museums and sites want to provide a platform for communities to be heard. We can help. Possible services include consulting on ways to get started with communities, serving as a community rep with your museum, or providing interpretive planning and exhibit design.
PLANNERS, ARCHITECTS, AGENCIES, PARKS
We also help other planners and designers understand the story of a place, leading to better and more responsive designs. This applies whether the impetus is placemaking or a Section 106 mitigation requirement. You might think of this as design dramaturgy.