We believe good design can benefit everyone, and in turn, everyone can help make good design even better.

Everyone who touches and uses a professionally designed object, product, space or environment can in some way, help inform its future development by feeding back to its designers. Every designer, client or consultant working on a new design proposal can impact positively on designs on the drawing board through their effective collaboration and knowledge exchange.

And if you think about design in terms of either open or closed processes, and about the level of engagement and feedback supported from professional design suppliers, commercial stakeholders and project end-users, it is clear that every design project has an underlying design democracy.

Whilst many already have fixed ideas about what democratic design is or represents, we remain open as to its detailed implementation and have already developed a number of approaches. We are interested in helping clients identify and expose the most appropriate level of design democracy for their projects, supporting their search for the best possible design and project outcomes.

From the most bottom-up and inclusive community projects, to more private commercial or even small scale developments involving only friends, family and a good builder, we can offer our creative leadership as architects using our democratic design tools, or support other professionals implementing our processes and tools in the common and collaborative search for good design.

You can read more about our idea of democratic design and design democracy in our blog.