Saving our cities with creativity, experiences, collaboration and learning
Shopping is over
A better blueprint:
Wherever we are in the world, we need to reset retail so that it helps us thrive. We know that our lives don’t run on consumer spending alone so lets transform what was once called shopping into something that is geared up to give us more. Here are some of the keys to the reset:
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We know creativity and making are important if we want healthy economies and 21st century skills to flourish, so lets actively nurture more wherever we can.
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When was the last time you were delighted, excited, or inspired when out shopping? We have all the tools to remedy this connection deficit disorder.
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Helping people get together – be they radical pioneers on the edges of enterprise or enthusiasts with a passion – is a central pillar of 21st century prosperity creation.
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Where are the pop-up amphitheatres with round the clock lectures, or the total immersion journeys to teach us about products & places? Next-gen learning is no longer confined to the classroom.
What we do
Design
We all probably know why retail is bust. It’s time to put the pieces together of what retail might look like as if the world mattered.
In fact, designing a remade version of consumption that fits the rebalancing world we live in is probably our greatest challenges.
It might just be that when reset, retail ends up at the heart of a human economy. Get in touch to find out about our workshops (thanks for the pics @hubwestminster!).
Learn
Finding out what’s wrong with retail and exploring the nooks in which the radical innovators are operating on the margins is critical to making the reset happen.
The funny thing is that when you talk to people, the most outlandish ideas are actually the most common sense proposals.
And a deeper look at the status quo reveals the extent of the costs imposed on us by retail’s low margin misery ride to oblivion. Get in touch for more on our research.
Connect
While around the world retail is weighing us down, we’ve all got the nimble skills to outmaneuver its necrotic embrace.
Through our blog and our twitter stream we try and hook into all the good people and stuff that is going on out there.
And through our related work with Brazil (and our man in China) we keep in the loop with what’s going on in new centers of demand.
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Design
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Learn
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Connect
The ‘Reset Note’
Every month we send out the ‘Reset Note’ which delves into some of our latest scouting and thinking to let you know what the big shifts are and where they are taking place to keep you informed as to how the reset is going across the world.
Find out more
This is a but a brief snapshot of what it’s all about. Get in touch, visit the blog, send us an email or connect on twitter and lets talk more about how we are going to reset retail.
