Services & focus areas

  • Technical assistance in program, policy, and project implementation 

  • Culturally-affirming research & data collection

  • Strategic planning 

  • Black, Indigenous, People of Color-centered design 

  • Emergent facilitation 

  • Radical and distributive project and program design

  • emergent labs reviews current and existing projects, programs, policies, and budgets. We challenge dominant planning processes by offering a framework for community engagement and data collection that reflects the unique cultural, political, and historical context of communities.

  • emergent labs works with internal teams and individuals leading projects to provide design assistance and help achieve justice-oriented outcomes. This may be done through early design workshops.

  • emergent labs provides tools & metrics to evaluate policies and practices to define success as responsive, adaptive, and generative.

  • emergent labs provides culturally affirming tools and approaches for data collection & engagement.

  • emergent labs develops branding toolkits for collateral, such as posters, mailers, brochures, and other materials for print and digital. emergent labs also provides videography and photography as well as the production of digital assets to strengthen cultural engagement and community ownership in planning processes.