Our special conversation with Barbara Smith (feminist scholar and activist) made it was a night to remember!

Ashley Gallegos, the Belonging Coordinator at the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, dives into defining “belonging”, exploring creating safer spaces, and recognizing the benefits of queering design.

This intensive for mission-driven leaders covers the fundamentals of community design and will help you build a catalyzing, durable, and effective strategic plan

When facilitating, it's key to make room for emergence. Over prepare so you're able to pivot and keep some good activities in your back pocket.

Quick tips to help you become a stronger facilitator. Great for a CEO running an all staff meeting, the head of HR running a training, or an everyday person at your job trying to make sure that your team meetings and your one on ones are going better and even having even greater impact.

In this interview with Hannah Malvin, coach and workplace culture consultant, we explore the opportunities and challenges of employee resources groups — and reveal insights for non-profit and corporate leaders who want to put their resources where their values are.

Chelsea Goldwell, Partner & Creative Director at Zero Studios, joins us as we question how, and if, design can break the gender binary. Designers and creatives sometimes aim to spark social change but are challenged with systems and societal norms that make envisioning a new future difficult. In both design and life, things are a spectrum and not always either/or.

In August 2022, FLOX Studio got to do one thing we cherish so much: be in community with the people we love. With two year anniversary under our belt, we look forward to many more!

Join Debbie Millman and Sloan as they explore how we can use design to respond to the critical issues around us and the ways in which community design work is spurring dialogue, centering community-first solutions, and modeling a more equitable vision for the future.

George Aye, co-founder of Greater Good Studio, dives into what are the ethics that should inform our practice as community designers, especially in moments of moral complexity and increased social fractioning.

“The Future Is Community” is FLOX’s poster submission to NYCxDESIGN’s “An Ode to NYC” campaign. See what inspired this collab!

In August 2021, FLOX Studio got to do one thing we cherish so much: be in community with the people we love. With one anniversary under our belt, we look forward to many more!

As the pandemic ebbed in New York City in June 2021 and around the U.S, we were sitting in an abundance precipice -- the return to normal was perilously close. But what about a new normal - an abnormal future? We had a conversation with Marianna Martinelli, Community Consultant and former Director of Community at The Wing, about designing for abundant communities.

Marianna Martinelli is a community builder and strategist. We tapped into her superpower of architecting the connective element of magic for communities through human-focused, high-touch experiential design. Our conversation revealed small steps you can take to incorporate community as a practice in your daily life, urgent needs for leaders and decision-makers, and the undeniable energy that comes from community in-person.

Rashid Owoyele (they/them) is a Nigerian-American Transdisciplinary Designer and Social Innovation expert. Rashid's work explores the implications of cooperative principles in the future networked society – including platform cooperativism and the conditions conducive to distributed ownership of ethical production. See our discussion on democratisation of technology through 'glocal' communities, how scientific research and social innovation interact, and more!

Some of the most charismatic and influential leaders of our time believe that the pandemic has ushered in a new kind of social awakening. Sloan Leo chats with Nell Derick Debevoise, Founder and CEO of Inspiring Capital about if this becomes a watershed moment in building inclusive, tolerant, and equal communities. Sloan’s perspicacity says we’re ready for agile community building. Watch the full conversation or read the highlights now!

Jess Harris (she/her), the VP of Membership at re—inc, is on a quest for career and community that supports one of her core beliefs: The world’s problems need interdisciplinary, creative, designed, history-bound, caring solutions. In this Community Jam we dug into Jess' passion for solving complex problems through the lens of care and history.

The School of Visual Arts: Design For Social Innovation Program sat down with Leo to discuss their vision for community design, building brave spaces, and inspiring leaders in the twenty-first century.

Sloan spoke on the Revision Path podcast about the beginnings of their passion for art and community design, daily workflows, and on how they’re making space for joy during this current time. Listen now!

sloan speaks with Dr. Christina Harrington about community design for all, the work ahead to adopt this approach, and what leaders can do to to engage in a practice of community design.