URBAN PLANNING
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This portfolio does not only showcase ideas, projects, written work and designs, it provides an outlook on my values and perspective towards Urban Planning and Community Design.
I am devoted to creating meaningful places that better the quality of lives of its people.
COO + URBAN PLANNER
The Wave Projects
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Wave Projects is an interdisciplinary non-profit organization creating projects that result in people-place connections. Together with my co-partner, we bought the organization to life in 2021 where we utilize community design and digital marketing tools in our project planning process. Our goal is to create place-led designed communities by adapting to the ongoing social, environmental and economic changes that affect our built and social environment.
My role as COO comprises of curating and leading placemaking projects, allocating partners that share our values, securing funds to match our business model, curating all written work for the organization such as vision, goals, framework, website content and more through extensive research.
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Curated Projects
OUR
APPROACH
Our approach to designing The Wave Projects is constantly adapting to the ongoing social, environmental and economic changes that affect our built and social environment.
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Placemakers
OUR FRAMEWORK
Through our Placemaking work for The Wave Projects, we identified Six Principles transforming under-utilized urban spaces into community-led interactive public spaces.
6 PRINCIPLES FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WAVE PROJECTS
01
IDENTIFY COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND SPONSORS
Great ideas come from people who live in the community everday. Identifying talents and assets within the community is essential to making sure all The Wave Projects stem from the community within and those representing it.
02
CREATING PLACES, IS A COLLECTIVE EFFORT
Placemaking is not an individual's single profession. It's a collective effort from community based groups, urban professionals, sociologists, developers, psychologists and others.
The Wave Projects challenges existing approaches in city building, community building and placemaking to examine if the existing actions are adaptable to our constantly changing and fast-growing living environment.
03
PARTNERSHIPS ("IT CAN'T BE DONE" TO "WE ARE DOING IT")
Creating good community spaces inevitably leads us to encounter obstacles. They key is not to get discouraged. Seeking partners who share similar visions and values is the foundation of a successful project.
At The Wave, we are a close-knit group of do-ers and action takers, working together with our partners to accelerate the project process.
04
LIGHTER, QUICKER AND CHEAPER
At The Wave, we start with small-scale actionable projects which bring immediate impact to the community. Project for Public Spaces states that Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper projects are a low-cost, hight impact incremental framework that capitalizes on the creative energy of the community to generate new uses and revenue. To achieve this, we prioritize making use of existing and available resources to reduce cost and time.
05
MONEY IS THE ISSUE
Numerous community projects discontinue due to the struggle non-profits face in gaining financial support. At The Wave, we take on a healthy business model by allocating the right financial resources, so all our projects are economically sustainable.
In return, we are creating job opportunities and small funds for Youth, BIPOC, and underrepresented communities to empower communities in bringing their projects to life.
06
SUPPORT ON-GOING CHANGES
Cities are constantly interchanging; for all projects we create that are "Lighter, Quicker, and Cheaper," we ensure they're growing in correlation with our surrounding environment and there's constant support in adapting to the ongoing changes.
