My life and work have always been one conversation. What I care about shapes what I create, and what I create deepens what I care about.
My design practice focuses on shaping the spaces, stories, and systems that shape us back. For nearly two decades, I've worked across governance, culture, and technology to design the conditions where groups discover what they're capable of together — and find momentum.
I work with organizational emergence: the living process by which collectives develop coordination, structure, and coherence. Collaborators often describe me as a multiplier — someone who amplifies the capacities of everyone around them.
Spaces
I create gathering environments where trust deepens and collective capacity unlocks.
Stories
I craft narratives that align movements and turn imagination into collective action.
Systems
I build governance and participation infrastructure that lets groups move together.
Current Roles
Learn about me →OpenCivics
Co-Founder · Steward
A community of practice and solidarity network for open civic innovation.
2022–Present
Localism Fund
Steward
Supporting community-led initiatives rooted in place-based resilience and local self-governance.
2025–Present
Network Nations Alliance
Steward
A coalition advancing networked sovereignty and decentralized governance across communities.
2025–Present
Future Historic
Founder · Director
A strategic consulting practice bridging design, culture, and systems to move organizations through uncharted territory.
2020–Present
Luminary Society
Experience Director
A series of social experiences exploring the fusion of sacred and satirical participatory play.
2020–Present
Imaginal House
Founder · Steward
A community hub and sanctuary on Salt Spring Island for practitioners designing regenerative futures.
2025–Present

Kosmic Gardener
Curator
A living knowledge garden tending ideas at the intersection of systems, culture, and emergence.
2011 – Present
Featured Projects
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A Cosmic Carol
Experience Director Directed a four-hour participatory solstice ceremony reimagining Dickens through cosmic mythology, assembling 20+ performers with one month's notice.
Ari Lazer
Creative Director Developed a poetic, soul-aligned brand identity and web presence for sacred geometry wizard and wordsmith Ari Lazer.
Kwaxala
Organizational Innovator Shaped the organizational design of an Indigenous-led network converting extractive forestry licenses into regeneration rights across coastal rainforest territory in the Southern Great Bear Rainforest.
Rhizome Springs
Brand Designer, Organizational Designer & Land Steward Designed the brand, organizational direction, and messaging for an off-grid exploratorium on Salt Spring Island — and served as land steward for two years, tending to ecology, creativity, and embodiment.
Build-A-Burn
Experience Design & Direction Co-created an official virtual Burning Man world that welcomed 25,000 participants in a single week.
Forest Defenders
Participation Designer Created a public awareness campaign and supported organizational strategy for the Forest Defenders movement.
La Tierra
Design & Facilitation Facilitated think tanks for a 430-acre Costa Rican village creating an open-source blueprint for regenerative living.
Quest for Greatness
Experience Director Built three immersive metaverse worlds to launch Topia's $5M seed round with Seven Seven Six, the venture fund founded by Alexis Ohanian.
Bicycle Night
Immersive Experience Designer Designed a MUSE Silver Medal-winning virtual event for MAPS that drew 12,000 participants to celebrate Bicycle Day — built in just nine days.
Immersiverse
Co-Director Directed three experimental virtual art parties set in the year 3020, drawing 1,000+ attendees across 50+ live artist experiences.
Quaranteam
Co-Founder Co-founded a global volunteer coalition that reached 15+ million people across 25 languages during the first wave of COVID-19.
Topia
Director of Design Named and shaped the brand, experience, and creative direction for a browser-based social platform during the 2020 metaverse surge.
Telos
Identity Designer Rebranded a decentralized blockchain network by shifting its narrative from technical functionality to a community-driven, heart-centered vision.
Blockchain Babes
Co-Founder Co-founded a global community empowering women in blockchain that grew to 300+ members across nine city hubs — designing the brand identity, crafting the manifesto, and facilitating meetups from Bali to Berlin.Chestnut
Co-Founder & Design Director Prototyped a blockchain Smart Account in under 72 hours at the EOS Global Hackathon, winning Best UX and reaching the Grand Finale.
EOS42
Brand Designer Built the brand identity for a founding EOS block producer advancing DAOs, collective governance, and decentralized finance.
Everipedia
Product Designer Redesigned the world's largest blockchain encyclopedia, reaching 50,000 daily users and supporting AP News's blockchain publication of the 2020 U.S. election results.
Freedom Proxy
Product Designer Named, branded, and built the digital presence for a pioneering EOS blockchain voting proxy — designing governance systems that made democratic participation in decentralized networks accessible and transparent.
Rackett
Creative Partner Created the brand identity for an Australian pop punk band that opened for The Darkness, Sticky Fingers, and DZ Deathrays.Digital Thumbprint
Creative Manager Designed an award-winning digital safety program with Optus that has reached over 415,000 Australian students and counting.
Play Project
Brand Designer Designed the brand for a national school program that brought active play to 86,000 primary students across Australia.
StartSmart
Creative Director Designed a national financial literacy program with Commonwealth Bank, bringing money skills directly into Australian classrooms.Kind Words from Collaborators
Collaborators & Partners
ANZ Bank · AP News · ATYP · Bankwest · BioFi Project · BlockOne · Burning Man Project · Buckminster Fuller Institute · Center for Humane Technology · ChangeLabs · China Mobile · Clever · Commonwealth Bank · Concep · Consciousness Hacking · Crane Industry Association · Design Science Studio · Elanora Country Club · Esalen Institute · Everipedia · EY · FCB · Football Federation Australia · Gitcoin · Google · habRitual · Indigenous Commons · Johnson & Johnson · Kwaxala · Lionsgate · MAPS · Minter Ellison · Mondelēz International · MS Research Australia · NAB · Netflix · Optus · Pegasus Pictures · Pumpables · Rackett · Regenerate Cascadia · Rhizome Springs · Seven Seven Six · Shimano · Singtel Optus · Speakers Institute · Telos · Topia · Vision 2030 · Vogue · Westpac
If you're building something that matters and could use a thinking partner, I'd love to hear from you.
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