• Todd specializes in strategies for the nonprofit and social impact sectors drawing upon collaborative design approaches to yield innovations for collective benefit.

  • Commons + decisions

    BALLOON-FRAME draws upon Todd’s experience facilitating complex organizational networks dedicated to community purposes and places to support decision-making requiring participatory, facilitative and collaboratively-driven methods.

  • Todd  has established multi-disciplinary methods to guide social impact organizations and communities of practice. Approaching transformation through co-design is rooted in his training in architectural theory and practice. He informs projects by defining participation dynamics that manifest community co-design for social impact.

  • Purpose and place

    Todd’s experience collaborating on questions of purpose in places motivate his facilitation of dialogues and contributions to narratives on issues inclusive of learning in the public sphere, cultural diversity and heritage and the social, ecological and constructed factors influencing human places and settlements.

    His current focus on collective inquiry asks how demonstrated drivers of local change can be supported to meet the scale and urgency of systemic challenges that are negatively impactful across global boundaries.

  • In dialogue

  • Collective inquiry

    Collective inquiry demands the welcoming of diverse practitioners to connect with and find resonance in larger communities of practice. Collaborating across expertise boundaries is a critical avenue for transformation.

  • Collaboration places purpose