Illuminate Cities
Our team is dedicated to improving cities through data Democracy, art, design and engagement. The goal IS to Work Collaboratively with local Stakeholders to use public information in creative ways that allow us to explore, understand, envision and create more resilient cities.
We believe public data should be accessible to the communities it impacts. Art and design provide unique opportunities to address issues of transparency, and create pathways of connection between numbers and actual individual lives and communities. Visualization creates the opportunity for engagement. Our work evolves from our beliefs that:
- Public data should be clear, easily digestible, and truly accessible
- Public data becomes meaningful when communities can interact with information in an active vs. passive manner
- Art and design can provide all communities with the opportunity to connect to public data about themselves and their neighborhoods; they can be a platform for engagement
- Information can be beautiful and powerful
The idea behind illuminate is to create art and engagement opportunities that offer the possibility of opening dialogue. Our goal is to create tools that are part ‘information is beautiful,’ part educational, and 100% public art for engaging new ideas and communication!
Who We Are
Illuminate is a collaboration between socially minded urban planners and architects, dedicated to improving urban spaces and fostering Open places of Civic Engagement
Domingo Abrusci: Architect (Licensed in Italy) and Designer, DASH Architecture
Alexandra Payne: Urban Planner and Analyst, AMPLIFY Studio
We partner with experts from across the public, private and Not for Profit sectors to bring projects to life.
Learn More About Our Collaborators
Curious? Want to collaborate? Feel free to Reach out to us!!
Special thanks to our Industry Partners
