lifelong kindergartener, believes in the magical ephemerality of ichi-go ichi-e, serendipity and shared human experiences, tiny and mighty

life-long kindergartener

I build 0→1 products and gatherings that make people feel less alone — places where strangers become neighbours.

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Long tables

Long tables

Dinners as design research, 2023—now

Thinking out loud

Thinking out loud

Workshops, sketches, unfinished walls

Small streets

Small streets

Village-scale community prototypes

Turned a quiet block into 40 neighbours who now cook together every single Sunday night

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Long tables

Long tables

Dinners as design research, 2023—now

Long tables

Long tables

Dinners as design research, 2023—now

Thinking out loud

Thinking out loud

Workshops, sketches, unfinished walls

Small streets

Small streets

Village-scale community prototypes

Designed the ritual that made 300 strangers swap numbers before dessert was even served

impact
Long tables

Long tables

Dinners as design research, 2023—now

Long tables

Long tables

Dinners as design research, 2023—now

Thinking out loud

Thinking out loud

Workshops, sketches, unfinished walls

Small streets

Small streets

Village-scale community prototypes

Ran 60 long tables across four cities and turned the transcripts into a community playbook

impact
Long tables

Long tables

Dinners as design research, 2023—now

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Meaning making

I design experiences that help people make sense of their lives together. Ritual, story and rhythm do more for belonging than any feature ever will.

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Community design

Communities aren't launched, they're tended. I build the structures, roles and invitations that let a group hold itself.

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0→1 design thinking

I like the blank page and the messy middle. From first sketch to shipped product, I move fast without losing the human thread.

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Village-like serendipity

The best encounters feel accidental but are quietly designed. I engineer the conditions for chance meetings at city and product scale.

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