About Us

We strive for a world where collaborative partnerships catalyze impactful innovations that contribute to a thriving planet.

Our Mission

Wicked problems require solutions beyond any single sector, scale, or silo. And yet, we lack the tools for effective collaboration.

 How do we bring people together in a way that results in meaningful partnerships and impactful innovation?

We collaborate with teams, organizations, and communities to facilitate interactions, harness collective intelligence, and create alignment, helping you move from idea to impact faster and more smoothly.

Lorena Polovina, Principal

Lorena combines her design expertise with her technical background to bridge the idea-to-innovation gap by facilitating successful collaborations. Trained as an architect and engineer with several years of experience in the green building and circular bioeconomy sector, she designs collaborative engagements that translate technical concepts into actionable ideas, providing clarity and alignment to teams and organizations.

 Past projects include:

  • Designing interdisciplinary research topic co-creation sessions

  • Liaising between the architecture, building science, and structural design teams to design an integrated, low-carbon building

  • Synthesize feedback from stakeholders with expertise in disaster recovery to support local governments with rebuilding better through a low-carbon reslience lens.

  • Supporting research supervisor with outreach efforts to grow the lab's research and collaboration presence.

  • Bringing construction industry professionals together to educate and inspire action towards reducing embodied carbon in buildings.