Suite 400 - 509 Richards Street, Vancouver, BC. V6B 2Z6 +1 604 736 7755 http://thinkmodus.ca [email protected]
CORPORATE PROFILE
OUR MISSION To weave together diverse people, skills and ideas to drive bold action and create lasting solutions for a better world.
MODUS works with local and regional governments, provincial agencies, crown corporations, non-profits, universities, community groups, school boards, libraries and progressive developers to address critical issues and make a difference.
How we collaborate with you is what sets us apart. Our “modus operandi” is to consciously weave together our expertise with ideas from diverse stakeholders, the public and our clients. Tapping into a range of perspectives on complex issues makes us all wiser, aligns our thinking and action and creates new solutions.
OUR VALUES
IMPACT COLLABORATION CAPACITY INCLUSION INNOVATION LEARNING
Making real Figuring things out Empowering Shaping processes Exploring and Embracing progress on critical together clients, and places with inspiring new opportunities issues communities & and for everyone approaches for growth and ourselves improvement
IMPLEMENTATION
Our PLANNING practice aims to maximize value to Our STAKEHOLDER & PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT practice ensures clients, communities, and the world as a whole. Our work broad, meaningful and productive input to projects of all includes regional, community-wide, neighborhood, and sizes. We expertly harmonize in-person and digital tools, downtown sustainability & land use plans, as well as and training to your objectives, audiences, and resources. project and site-specific guidance. External engagement is balanced by internal processes to ensure responsiveness and coordinated action. Our URBAN DESIGN practice enables clients to deploy the skills and resources needed for implementation. This proven “way of doing things together” leads to We weave together the many strands of place making fresh thinking, new insight, and inspiration, which to create beautiful, distinct and inclusive communities. enables shared perspectives to build and a clear direction We lead integrated teams in master planning and design to emerge. The result? Creative, well-supported and processes at the site, neighborhood and community implementable solutions that make a difference. scale. That’s MODUS. FROM INSIGHT TO IMPACT Suite 400 - 509 Richards Street, Vancouver BC V6B 2Z6 +1 604 736 7755 http://thinkmodus.ca [email protected]
STAKEHOLDER AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
OUR APPROACH OUR SERVICES
At Modus, we know that involving diverse people and organizations Over a decade of successful projects allows us in collaborative processes is difficult, but well worth the effort. to offer a range of needed services. These are bolstered by our sparkling communication Our robust approach to engagement skills and robust facilitation approach. strengthens projects and their outcomes by bringing more (and more diverse) perspectives into the mix. Insight, PREPARATORY SERVICES alignment and capacity are increased. • Terms, concepts, principles, best practices • Capacity assessment (organization/community) Another major benefit? More trust and better relationships, because you • Audience identification, ranking, tracking asked and you listened. • Stakeholder identification, interviews, liaison • Contacts database development, use Modus can help you to: • Citizen advisory/steering committees • raise awareness & broaden participation • Council/management liaison • share information & frame the key issues • Outreach channel review, selection, testing • pose powerful questions & access new ideas • Design of chosen in-person, digital formats • work through challenges & find opportunities • Branding, messaging, website/collateral • develop consensus on solutions & strategies • Engagement strategy development • move together into implementation • embrace engagement as an organization IMPLEMENTATION SERVICES • Awareness raising & education We are expert in event design and • Launch event design, delivery facilitation, excel in the theory and • Outreach “champions” and “ambassadors” practice of dialogue, teach these skills, and are certified by IAP2. • “Light Touch” input tools (e.g. surveys, displays, kiosks, “ideas fairs”) This is how we help organizations of all • “Deep Dive” input tools (e.g. discussion guides, kinds engage people meaningfully and workbooks, workshops, charrettes)
efficiently. • Dialogue events (e.g. Circle, World Café, Open Space, Interview Matrix) Specializing in digital engagement, we
use electronic communications and input • Data coding and analysis tools effectively. Rather than pushing • Event/project reporting “one tool, we help you to identify the right • Diversity tools (youth, cross-cultural, arts) mix of social media, multimedia, • Graphic Facilitation, Arts-Based methods, web applications, and mobile apps to Participatory Video and Large Scale Events/ augment your face to face engagement Forums activities. ADDITIONAL SERVICES Our highly strategic and customized approach weaves great • Capacity building (staff/stakeholder training) process (including communications and facilitation) together • Engagement frameworks, policies, toolkits with rich content for the best results, every time. ” • Education and/or public speaking Suite 400 - 509 Richards Street, Vancouver BC V6B 2Z6 +1 604 736 7755 http://thinkmodus.ca [email protected]
PLANNING
OUR APPROACH OUR SERVICES Planning helps you imagine the future you want, decide how to get Often integrating design and engagement, we there, and start taking action. offer:
The secret to our success is weaving public and stakeholder dialogue • Strategic Planning and Visioning – from together with expert practice: traditional methods like SWOT analysis to advanced techniques like scenario planning. • We engage people creatively throughout projects, drawing in diverse audiences, • Regional Planning and Sustainability Strategies – long-term, multi-objective • We combine international best practice with local knowledge to methods to shape the future of communities find relevant solutions, and development projects. • We have an eye on the long-term vision but keep a focus on immediate action, and • Community Plans – combining public values, technical considerations, and • We apply change management and organizational development implementation needs, we produce practices to create fertile conditions for plan implementation. comprehensive, practical, actionable plans. Together, these approaches build shared insights, leading to • Downtown and Neighbourhood Plans – innovative solutions and maximizing value to our clients, the we use integrated design processes and communities we work in, and the world we share. collaborative workshops to drive creative, pragmatic solutions communities embrace. • Sustainability Planning and Policy – we take a pragmatic, strategic, and value-driven approach to sustainability at all scales, for developers and municipalities. • Regulations – we execute sustainable zoning projects, development permit guidelines, and assessment frameworks. • Housing – our expertise here includes policy for affordable housing and infill. Our team members have completed studies for housing capacity, residential intensification and affordable housing feasibility. Suite 400 - 509 Richards Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 2Z6 +1 604 736 7755 http://thinkmodus.ca [email protected]
URBAN DESIGN AND PLACEMAKING
Our role as urban designers is defined by a responsibility to local places and people: we are committed to the creation of beautiful, vibrant and connected communities. As practitioners of sustainable placemaking, our designs aspire to be restorative, supporting social cohesion, ecological health and economic prosperity.
Honouring the traditions of great urbanism, our design approach is collaborative, creative, local and premised on technical excellence.
OUR EXPERTISE As skilled facilitators, we base our practice in the collaborative design process. We engage deeply with clients and communities to: identify challenges and opportunities, explore shared values and build trust. We co-create solutions and build capacity through collaborative design.
OUR PRACTICE As physical designers, we are fluent across a range of professions, including architecture, landscape architecture, planning and engineering. We practice urban design as a means to thoughfully fuse together the many technical elements in service of sustainable placemaking. We draw on decades of professional experience and leverage local knowledge, best practices and emerging innovations. OUR APPROACH As thought and practice leaders, we assemble OUR SERVICES integrated design teams (with the full range of professionals) to undertake rigorous analysis and develop elegant design Integrating planning, design and engagement, solutions. As visual thinkers, we use an accessible, graphic our urban design services include: approach to communication and provide real-time translation • Facilitation of Integrated Multi-Disciplinary of ideas into diagrams and design visions. Design Teams, Workshops and Charrettes • Urban Design, Master Planning, Site Design and Feasibility Studies • Landscape, Streetscape, Public Realm and Open Space Design (including Multi-modal, Active Transportation Design) • Integrated Green Infrastructure Networks and Conservation Planning • Conceptual Architectural Design including Massing Studies and Parcel Tests • Design Guidelines, Reviews and Approvals • Regulatory Approvals and Processes including Plan and Bylaw Amendments, Re-Zonings and Development Permits • Design Research, Analysis, and Education Clients MODUS team members have assisted the following clients in various capacities:
Municipal Governments Kitselas First Nation Trilogy Development Corporation Bowen Island Penticton Indian Band Werner Humann City of Albany, NY & City of Richmond, VA Tsawwassen First Nation Westmana Development Corporation City of Burnaby Westbank First Nation City of Calgary Non-Governmental Organizations Regional Governments & Agencies City of Campbell River Academic Health Council City of Chilliwack Comox Valley Regional District Canadian Institute of Planners City of Coquitlam Cowichan Valley Regional District Community Service Learning Network City of Fort St. John Capital Regional District Cowichan Communities Health Network City of Kamloops Metro Vancouver David Suzuki Foundation City of Kelowna Regional District of Central Okanagan Design Centre for Sustainability City of Langley Regional District of Nanaimo Ducks Unlimited City of Lethbridge Skeena Queen Charlotte Regional District Federation of Canadian Municipalitites City of New Westminster Sunshine Coast Regional District Galiano Land & Community Housing Trust City of North Vancouver Thompson Nicola Regional District Grasslands Conservation Committee City of Ottawa, City of Gatineau & Sunshine Coast Regional District Impact of Olympics Coalition National Capital Commission TransLink Local Food First City of Pitt Meadows Senior Government and Agencies Mechanical Insulators City of Port Coquitlam Northwest Environment Watch BC City of Powell River BC Ministry of Community Services BC Ministry of Water, Land & Air Protection Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions City of Prince George Parkdale Community Services Society City of Red Deer BC Ministry of Water, Land & Air Protection BC Ministry of Children and Families Real Estate Foundation of BC City of Regina Ruby Lake Lagoon Society City of Revelstoke BC Climate Action Secretariat Canadian Institute of Health Research Smart Growth BC City of Richmond South Okanagan Similkameen Conservation City of Surrey Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp Special Olympics International City of Terrace Department of National Defence & Public Stewardship Centre of BC City of Vancouver Works and Government Services Canada US Green Building Council City of Victoria Health Canada Vancouver Public Library City of Whitehorse Industry Canada Vancouver Urban Farmers Network City of Winnipeg Natural Resources Canada We Canada Colwood/Langford Port Metro Vancouver West Coast Environmental Law Corporation of Delta World Urban Forum District of Central Saanich Developers and Businesses World Wildlife Fund District of Lake Country ATH Group Inc. District of Lantzville BasicGov Systems Inc. Universities District of Mackenzie Beedie Group District of Mission Busby/Perkins+Will Kwantlen Polytechnic University District of North Vancouver Canadian Pacific Railway Sea to Sky University District of Saanich Cold Springs Farm Simon Fraser University District of Sparwood CWE University of British Columbia District of Squamish Eco-Industrial Solutions University of the Fraser Valley District of West Kelowna Ernst & Young University of Victoria District of West Vancouver Glacier Development Yukon College Rocky View County Golder Associates Town of Cochrane Holborn Group/IBI Group Other Town of Gibsons John Weston Alberta Municipal Affairs Town of Ladysmith Mark Jeffrey Consultants/BC Building Corp Canadian Conference on Dialogue & Town of Markham MK Delta Lands Group Deliberation Town of Okotoks North Denman Lands First Nations Community Planning Conference Town of Smithers OKA Holdings/IBI Group Municipal Administrators Training Institute Township of Langley Overwaitea Union of BC Municipalities Village of Lions Bay Palladin Developments Vancouver Planning Commission Village of Pemberton Park Lane Homes Vancouver School Board Village of Thamesford Saxonville Estates Ltd. Vernon School Board Teck Winnipeg Public Library First Nations The Mission Group World Planner’s Congress Chemainus First Nation Townline Developments Inuvialuit Land Administration Tricar Inc.