“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Arundathi Roy

Urban Mind Studio brings the greatest potential to life.

We shift perspectives and open up new ways of being that are good for people and the planet - locally and globally.

Our role is to create the conditions to enable the greatest potential to emerge - to be felt, sensed, imagined and nourished to life to generate lasting value.

We believe that all projects exist in living ecosystems, in relationship with place.

We also believe that the greatest potential already exists in the place, in the hearts and minds of the people who care about it most and importantly the other local living beings and ecosystems.

We also like to have ‘serious fun’ - and believe that “an hour of play reveals more than a year of conversation” so we go about our business creatively.

Urban Mind Studio only exists in relationship with others and the value of our work is in the trusted relationships, community and vitality that is cultivated throughout the process that enable a better future to emerge and continue to evolve.

This is very gentle and mostly quiet work.

We do this through labs, collaborative strategy, stewardship and serious games.

We do we mean by the ‘State of Being’?

The State of Being refers to the myriad of intangible elements that emerges from the mood, the mindsets, the morals and the meaning of a place.

We can feel it. It’s ‘the vibe’.

It informs EVERYTHING; how we treat each other, interact and collaborate, how we govern, what we eat, grow and produce, how we live, what we tolerate and protect, what we design, build, destroy, mine and manufacture, what we create, celebrate and even the things we grieve.

The Urban Mind Studio’s approach provokes conversations and explores, maps, and measures the elements that shape the State of Being of places with the people who live, work, learn and play there.

It’s more than analytics. It's insight, for wisdom. 

How we work.

Initial meeting

An initial meeting to explore in principle the potential to work together.  

There are no direct costs associated with an initial exploratory meeting.

Project scoping and establishment

Following an initial meeting, fees are negotiated to better understand the scope and approaches of the potential project or initiate. Urban Mind Studio can develop a proposed approach for consideration, iteration and endorsement by your organisation.  

Project establishment services are costed at an agreed variable hourly rate. 

Systems approach for regeneration

Urban Mind Studio works strategically and practically to inspire, co-design and develop services and solutions that enrich the ecological and cultural essence of people, services, systems and places.

This starts with deep sensing and listening - empathising, learning, inquiring, observing, intuiting, exploring, mapping, and measuring.

Cultivating trust - interacting, conversing, co-designing, iterating, distilling, verifying.

Creating - articulating, drafting, editing, designing, planning, activating, catalysing.

Strengthening - embedding, reinforcing, network weaving, community building, connecting, sharing, awareness raising.

Fees are costed on the basis of the agreed scope.