Case studies

Projects we've worked on, from the first field visit to what got built. In each one, the brief changed once we understood the root cause.

Image: XP Capsule: keeping the feeling after the boat docks

Lobosonda

How do you turn a spectator into an author, so that a two hour trip becomes something a guest keeps?

Guest research showed the best part of the trip was the feeling at sea, and that it faded on land. We turned that into a new guest journey and the XP Capsule, a post-trip web app designed through to first build.

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Image: Paying farmers to bring terraces back

Public research programme, Madeira

How do you make looking after terraced land something farmers want to do, not something they are told to do?

Field research showed why terraced farmland is abandoned: the value a working terrace creates is never paid for. The research reframed the incentive mechanism from paying for upkeep to paying for soil progress.

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