As designers of the built environment, we are becoming more acutely aware of the externalized harms produced by planning and design discourse that has shaped the contemporary moment, which has reified the separation, extraction, dispossession, disenfranchisement, ecocide, and social unrest into a physical form, the unjust city and the operational landscapes which maintain it.

To challenge this norm, we as a research center field innovative solutions, ideas, frameworks, policies and design proposals that collaborate deeply with communities, hear and amplify their voices, and cultivate a more regenerative and pluralistic society for all to thrive. We catalyze this with a deep adherence to spatial justice.

We call this adherence, and the emergent design sensibilities it affords us, Spatial Opportunity.

If we are to resolve complex spatial problems that render harm on people and the planet, we are to address them with sensible spatial solutions that restoratively address the needs of all in meaningful, substantive ways.