WHAT WE DO

We Work With a broad range of partners, communities and clients. 

Our clients, partners and communities range from municipalities to institutions and triple bottom line businesses. They are part of our "WE." All of us are grappling with entangled challenges, which we seek to comprehensively address and navigate through shared value objectives, innovative projects and strategic design. At DTW, we design effective collaborative processes to incubate new ventures, strategies, technologies & services that together co-create an ecosystem of social change.

 

TACKLE Shared Value DESIGN STRATEGY

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We consult across sectors to bring a deep, systemic lens to the challenges impacting your work and business, and we work together with you to co-create innovative approaches with powerful social impacts..

  • Design and planning

  • Implementation to evaluation frameworks

  • Collaborative skill building and workshops

 

Go From engaged communities to investment ready projects

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We work with communities through robust engagement and collaboration to produce ecosystems of shared value and interconnected community-led projects and economic development. 

  • Community engagement tool kit

  • Shared value business and hybrid modeling

  • Technical assistance and project management

 

 

GENERATE TRANSFORMATIVE SPACES

Through our curricula, WElab Network, platforms and more, we are generating a series of interconnected spaces where anyone can discover their place of value in a larger ecosystem of positive change. 

  • WeLab social and local economy incubators and hubs.

  • Interconnected curriculums

  • Knowledge commons and community mapping as a living archive


STRATEGIC DESIGN

FROM CULTURE CHANGE TO SYSTEMS CHANGE

We offer consultation, research, development and design services for clients defining strategies and tools for undoing structural inequity.  The complexity of our world’s most pressing challenges requires a deep and systemic understanding of the issues at hand. We build networks among diverse stakeholders to transform silos into connections within an ecosystem of people, projects, resources, and movements. Through our process, clients gain organizational capacity to pursue the most efficient, innovative, and strategic opportunities to scale meaningful societal change.


ABOUT OUR PROCESS

By using design-led capacities we redefine how big picture systemic challenges are approached, identify opportunities for action, and co-design more holistic and resilient strategies centered on positive social change.

We believe that the more we co-operate, co-create and co-produce, the more equitable, effective and meaningful our impact will become.

 
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Co-operate

How do we work together?
Cooperation focuses on teamwork and building vital relationships within and without an organization.

Co-produce

 How do we produce effective results?
Co-production focuses on the technical capacity, skills and resources needed to bring a project into reality.

CO-CREATE

How do we design something together?
Co-creation focuses on the strategic design and innovation necessary to unlock shared potential through new models.

 


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