Design can be a vehicle for Change
Why?
We envision a human world healthy, just and in balance with nature.
Our mission is to employ design to help heal the world.
Pronounced 'tee-koon' the word comes from the Hebrew phrase “tikkun olam” which means “repairing the world”. We believe in design as a vehicle for economic, social and environmental justice. Good design is able to encourage more equitable and sustainable places and economies. The concept of repairing the world through the intersection of design, ecology and activism guides our design philosophy.
How?
Employing design to help heal the world can and needs to happen on multiple scales and at many intersections.
One example of how we do this is with our products. By salvaging the material from a waste stream, we begin a dialogue about what waste is and how materials might begin to be elevated or up-cycled. Our products and projects are stepping stones, pushing us to design to our limit, then stretching beyond and asking, "how can we do better?"
What?
Tikun Collective is a design studio working to improve the built environment and have fun doing it.
In collaboration with clients we create places, projects and products with purpose using social, economic and environmentally sustainable practices whenever possible.
Our services include:
Architectural Design
We envision a human world healthy, just and in balance with nature.
Our mission is to employ design to help heal the world.
Pronounced 'tee-koon' the word comes from the Hebrew phrase “tikkun olam” which means “repairing the world”. We believe in design as a vehicle for economic, social and environmental justice. Good design is able to encourage more equitable and sustainable places and economies. The concept of repairing the world through the intersection of design, ecology and activism guides our design philosophy.
How?
Employing design to help heal the world can and needs to happen on multiple scales and at many intersections.
One example of how we do this is with our products. By salvaging the material from a waste stream, we begin a dialogue about what waste is and how materials might begin to be elevated or up-cycled. Our products and projects are stepping stones, pushing us to design to our limit, then stretching beyond and asking, "how can we do better?"
What?
Tikun Collective is a design studio working to improve the built environment and have fun doing it.
In collaboration with clients we create places, projects and products with purpose using social, economic and environmentally sustainable practices whenever possible.
Our services include:
Architectural Design
- Design Visioning
- Conceptual Design
- Schematic Design
- Architectural Drafting
- Architectural Modeling (3D - digital and physical)
- Sustainability Research
- Building Assessment
- Ideation
- Concept & Ideation
- Prototyping
- Production & Fabrication
- Custom Signage
Multiple Scales | Many Intersections
Consumers.
Every living thing consumes. But all natural things ensure their waste is able to be consumed by something else.
As much as we can we focus on why, how and what gets consumed in human economies. The word consumption can be synonymous with depleting and exhausting or it can be synonymous with absorbing, employing or engaging.
Our inspiration comes from a number of sources including but not limited to biomimicry* and cradle to cradle* design. We believe that design for the 21st century must be smarter, greener, wiser, more diverse, blended with indigenous cultural wisdom and in concert with the natural world. We must rethink the 19th and 20th century industrial methods simply based on their byproducts or symptoms and begin to solve our challenges the way nature would, not being afraid to ditch outdated ideas, methods or memes.
We're a long way from fulfilling our mission and we hope you'll join us in getting there. This is an evolving process - we invite you to join in by email, by enjoying one of our products, places, services or on our blog - here.
We are constantly innovating how we make our products and how we run our projects.
Our green initiatives include:
International Living Futures Institute membership - visit their website here
Wind credits for our office, storage and assembly area energy use.
Salvaged materials (like mat board, card stock and hard woods) for most if not all of our:
Lamp shades
Lamp structures
Promotional items
Business cards
Cardboard packaging
We use recycled and/or FSC paper and woods when possible
*Visit our definitions page for more info.
Every living thing consumes. But all natural things ensure their waste is able to be consumed by something else.
As much as we can we focus on why, how and what gets consumed in human economies. The word consumption can be synonymous with depleting and exhausting or it can be synonymous with absorbing, employing or engaging.
Our inspiration comes from a number of sources including but not limited to biomimicry* and cradle to cradle* design. We believe that design for the 21st century must be smarter, greener, wiser, more diverse, blended with indigenous cultural wisdom and in concert with the natural world. We must rethink the 19th and 20th century industrial methods simply based on their byproducts or symptoms and begin to solve our challenges the way nature would, not being afraid to ditch outdated ideas, methods or memes.
We're a long way from fulfilling our mission and we hope you'll join us in getting there. This is an evolving process - we invite you to join in by email, by enjoying one of our products, places, services or on our blog - here.
We are constantly innovating how we make our products and how we run our projects.
Our green initiatives include:
International Living Futures Institute membership - visit their website here
Wind credits for our office, storage and assembly area energy use.
Salvaged materials (like mat board, card stock and hard woods) for most if not all of our:
Lamp shades
Lamp structures
Promotional items
Business cards
Cardboard packaging
We use recycled and/or FSC paper and woods when possible
*Visit our definitions page for more info.
