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We’re named Studio Madane because we think ventures now 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 venture 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 taking on commissions, programs, and research for clients and partners whose problems sit across systems.
The team is small, networked through seven discipline communities of regional practitioners and collaborators. Work moves iteratively. That rhythm is why the studio model fits us. Our thesis is that the future demands ventures designed across systems, not in silos, what we call regenerative work. The pilots are how we test it. The commissions are how we apply it.
We trace challenges to their root cause, not their symptoms.
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
We design processes that generate solutions from within ecosystems.
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.