Mend Collaborative is a design and planning firm founded in 2022. Mend Collaborative values the empowerment of communities to participate in decision making about investments that impact them, creates actionable plans and designs that measurably improve a community’s quality of life and access to resources while improving environmental quality. We believe in building up the connections between people and the environment. We seek to provide a supportive and sustainable work environment that understands that professional achievement and productivity must be an outgrowth of life/work boundaries and personal fulfillment. We value collaborative work and investing in our staff’s and our community’s wellbeing and development as professionals and people.
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Minneapolis, MN 55408, US
Austin, TX, US
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🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 We are thrilled to announce that the site for our new regional all-abilities playground has been selected! This inclusive space will provide a safe, fun, and accessible environment for children of all abilities to play and enjoy. Stay tuned for more updates as we move forward with this incredible project. Let's create a community where everyone can play together!
Mend Turns 2! 🎉 We are thrilled to celebrate our second anniversary at Mend Collaborative! Over the past two years, we’ve had the privilege of working with inspiring leaders, vibrant communities, and critical ecological areas. To mark this milestone, our collaborators from both offices came together to participate in volunteer events in forest ecosystems. The Minneapolis office partnered with Great River Greening at the Sunktokeca Creek Watershed Management Area. Sunktokeca Creek is a 200 acre area including marsh habitat along with former cropland that will be restored to prairie. Our efforts were concentrated on the forest bordering the cropland, where we seeded understory species while a herd of goats helped by munching away on the invasive buckthorn leaves. The Austin office joined Keep Austin Beautiful at Montopolis Fields and McElhaney Oak Grove. The Oak Grove is a Watershed Protection Department property with beautiful old oak trees, riparian woodland, a stream and pond. Our efforts were concentrated on reducing the presence of non-native, invasive Ligustrum species, and replanting and sowing seed to increase biodiversity in the woodland.
Join Zakcq Lockrem, AICP and Kari Spiegelhalter, PLA tomorrow, June 12, from 12 - 1 pm in a virtual presentation about equitable planning and design hosted by Destination Medical Center and the City of Rochester. Follow the zoom link below to join the conversation! Zoom link: https://lnkd.in/gaTM_yc3
Are you planning to attend the Minnesota Transportation Conference in St. Paul this week? Join Zakcq Lockrem, AICP on Thursday, May 30th for a session on the restorative development of the Historic Rondo Neighborhood from 3:10 - 4:00pm. Hope to see you there! #mntransportationconference #reconnectrondo
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Working on this project with our friends at Mend Collaborative has been an absolute delight.
The All-Abilities Playground planning initiative was launched to create an inclusive and accessible play space for children of all abilities. Over the past seven months, this initiative has focused on three key areas: Programming, Theme, Site Selection, and Community Engagement El Paso’s All-Abilities Playground Planning Report “Beyond Boundaries” provides a comprehensive overview of the 7-month process and final recommendations. Download Report: www.elev8ep.com
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So excited to see the All-Abilities Playground planning report published! This was such a fun and rewarding project to be involved in. El Paso's City Design Lab was so forward-thinking and innovative in this process, the future all-abilities playground in El Paso will be an incredible and truly community-visioned place for children and folks of all abilities to gather and play without boundaries ✨ We can't wait to see the future playground come to life! And big props to the team at Mend Collaborative for their hard work throughout this process! 💖 #allabilitiesplay #playground #design #landscapearchitecture #planning #urbandesign #inclusivedesign #inclusiveplay #accessibleplay
The All-Abilities Playground planning initiative was launched to create an inclusive and accessible play space for children of all abilities. Over the past seven months, this initiative has focused on three key areas: Programming, Theme, Site Selection, and Community Engagement El Paso’s All-Abilities Playground Planning Report “Beyond Boundaries” provides a comprehensive overview of the 7-month process and final recommendations. Download Report: www.elev8ep.com
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We’re excited to welcome our second intern, Everett Black, to the Mend team this summer! Everett is an emerging urban planner and artist originally from Fontana, WI. With a background in gardening, cooking and arts fabrication, Everett has practiced ecological thinking in many mediums. He received a bachelors in Visual Arts from the University of Chicago and is currently pursuing a Master's in Urban Planning from the Harvard GSD. Everett will be joining Mend in our Austin office over the summer, and is excited to find every swimming hole in central Texas! Welcome Everett!
We’re excited to welcome our second intern, Everett Black, to the Mend team this summer! Everett is an emerging urban planner and artist originally from Fontana, WI. With a background in gardening, cooking and arts fabrication, Everett has practiced ecological thinking in many mediums. He received a bachelors in Visual Arts from the University of Chicago and is currently pursuing a Master's in Urban Planning from the Harvard GSD. Everett will be joining Mend in our Austin office over the summer, and is excited to find every swimming hole in central Texas! Welcome Everett!
We’re excited to welcome our landscape design intern, Bindu Nicholson, to the Mend team this summer! Bindu is a budding landscape designer and planner from Hilo, HI and Philadelphia, PA. She has a background in nature education and is passionate about inclusive and ecologically resilient landscapes that encourage connection and belonging to a place. Bindu is a recent graduate of the Conway School of Landscape Design where she received a Master of Science in Ecological Design. Welcome Bindu!
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We are officially less than a week away from our Design Downtown Denton: The Feedback Finale workshop and cannot wait to share the latest ideas for Downtown Denton with you all! #designdowntowndenton #welovedenton #dentontx #communityengagement #downtowndenton #neighborhoodplanning