RE:Place is a new consultancy and media platform designed to inspire positive change in the places where people live, work, and play, and in the ways people commute, communicate and design.
As we become more aware about the food we eat, the education we give our children, the amounts of energy we consume, why are we not looking with as much scrutiny at the the places we live?
RE:Place fills the need for smart, solutions-oriented consumable media devoted to cities, suburbs, and rural areas, a source that makes it easier to understand and react to important ideas in transportation, health, real estate development, agriculture, technology, and more.
At the same time, those in charge of making places—architects, technologists, planners, developers, and politicians—should feel a sense of community. We will aim to facilitate one.
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“Where you live has a bigger impact on happiness and health than you might imagine.”
— —Washington Post headline, May 2018
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What is RE:Place?
RE:Place is a social impact media and consulting company exploring ideas about how to make places more livable, sustainable, and enjoyable for current and future generations. We’re creating a multimedia platform to tell stories about cities, towns, people, and policy. The delivery will come in many forms: a newsletter about the future of transportation, a podcast about equitable housing, a docu-series about smart cities and towns, and more. In the end, RE:Place will search for and provide solutions to complex problems regarding place.
We also advance our mission through RE:Place Community, a studio and consultancy devoted to producing creative, thought-provoking campaigns for leading mission-aligned partners, and to contributing to sensible real estate development aimed at improving the lives of residents.
Our Mission
To inspire people to improve where they live, for themselves and for future generations
A Solutions-Based Approach
We believe that the many topics concerning the future of places need to be more accessible to average citizens, as well as to real estate developers, urban planners, architects, and policy makers. Through narrative-driven content and the judicious use of data presented in plain English there is an opportunity to reach a broader and more engaged audience. RE:Place will focus on these areas and find solutions, both existing and proposed, to help people understand how to improve the places they live and love. The RE:Place media ecosystem will span the Internet, social media, television, film, books and audio, covering important ideas around the following areas:
Transportation
Housing
Health
Architecture
Energy
Technology/Data
Food/Agriculture
Education
Sustainability
Real Estate Development
RE:Place Originals
Creating change through content is central to our mission. That can take the form of original content that tells stories about place. Our team has a series of concepts including a documentary series, a newsletter, and a podcast and we are seeking independent funding for these projects, such as a television network, a foundation, or an advertiser.
RE:Place Community
We also advance our mission through Re:Place Community, a studio and consultancy devoted to making better places. That starts with advising local governments, investors and developers on program, design and real estate strategy. It also leverages the founders’ deep experience to create thought-provoking campaigns for leading mission-aligned partners, and advising developers on partners and activation strategies that will improve the lives of residents and community members.
Development partners commission RE:Place for projects that serve mutual interests: the project’s, RE:Place’s, and by extension, the consumer’s. This can take the form of strategy and program advice in the design and development process or focus more on outreach and can be in any be in any form of media, from a magazine, to a documentary film or series, to a social media campaign, as well as direct community engagement.