We honor local heritage, indigenous knowledge, and community memory through Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) and sacred memorial landscape design — building places of healing, storytelling, and civic pride.
Community Practice
Mobilizing community strengths rather than focusing on deficits. In partnership with Charlie Hopper & NC A&T research.
Mapping local leadership, indigenous land stewards, youth creators, and community elders to drive bottom-up design decisions.
Partnering with neighborhood associations, faith networks, farm co-ops, and youth groups to sustain long-term engagement.
Recording oral histories, historical land records, and ancestral narratives to weave heritage into memorial architecture.
Identifying sacred groves, natural waterways, heritage trees, and historic structures for site integration.
Leveraging university research (NC A&T State University), municipal partners, and public grant funding programs.
Asset-Based Community Development App
Interactive web software tool for community asset mapping, facilitator dashboards, team roles, and GIS asset overlay.