• Todd specializes in strategies for the place-based/cultural nonprofit and social impact sectors drawing upon collaborative design approaches to yield innovations for collective benefit.

  • BALLOON-FRAME draws upon Todd’s experience facilitating complex organizational networks dedicated to community purposes and places to support decision-making requiring participatory, facilitative and collaboratively-driven methods.

  • The research practice drives strategic innovation through consulting services. Together these are rooted in ongoing processes of evaluation and learning from impacts made by means of strategic initiatives Todd led. These together bridged distinct gaps between civic purposes, global design knowledge and local capacity.

  • Purpose and place

    This professional track record includes Chicago pilots curated with the National Public Housing Museum which connect cultural ambitions, housing rights, economic development and public space in disinvested urban communities.

    Strategic design platforms he led produced interventions supporting knowledge exchange on spatial equity approaches across diverse places including Sao Paolo, Johannesburg and Vancouver (with the Chicago Architecture Biennial), and Detroit, Austin, Brooklyn and Philadelphia (with MillerKnoll/Diversity in Design).

  • In dialogue

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  • Collective inquiry

    Collective inquiry demands the welcoming of diverse practitioners to connect with and find resonance in larger communities of practice. Collaborating across expertise boundaries is a critical avenue for transformation.

  • Collaboration places purpose