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We’re named Studio Madane because we think ventures and systems have to be built civically, with strong human will and the conviction of active citizenship: read across systems, rooted in place, answerable to more than one outcome... Cities, markets, and communities are too entangled to design for one without touching the others.
Urban, political, cultural, and technological forces don't stay in their lanes. They collide and compound. A system that solves cleanly for one tends to create problems in the rest. The work that lasts reads them together. That's why we work as a studio.
Since 2019, Studio Madane has operated in two modes: architecting its ventures, and delivering trainings, programs, and research to partners in the Euro-Mediterranean whose problems sit across systems.
The team is networked through seven discipline communities of regional practitioners and collaborators. Work moves iteratively. Our hypothesis is that the future demands organisms designed across systems, not in silos. Our in-house ventures are how we test it. The deliveries are where we apply it.
Amongst all of Studio Madane’s internal tool kits, we’ve made one of our most useful ones public! EKOS is an agentic AI system that combines your input with online research to build an editable knowledge graph of actors and relationships within a specific ecosystem. Ecosystem sensing, knowledge management, stakeholder mapping, outcome harvesting, and evidence integration are now available for founders, consultancies, NGOs, studios, and researchers.
EKOS!
At the core of the studio lies cosystem-centric design, which goes beyond people-centered thinking. We trace challenges to their root causes, account for materiality, scale, and time, and integrate micro-to-macro perspectives, part-to-future dynamics, and tangible-to-intangible elements.
Process, not Product
Each pilot draws on divers tools and disciplines: urbanism, politics, business, technology, design, activism, applied artificial intelligence, etc. Multidisciplinarity allows ideas to flow across fields, unlocking civic, cultural, and financial value at once.