Field + Form is an independent civic strategy and sustainability practice located on California’s Central Coast.
The practice works in the space between policy, people, and place, helping communities, organizations, and leaders navigate complex challenges through strategic consulting, systems mapping, community visioning, and civic engagement grounded in regenerative economics and relational practice.
At the center of the work is a simple conviction: meaningful change becomes possible when we can see the systems we are part of, understand the relationships within them, and recognize the capacity that already exists.
Current Practice
Daniela currently serves as a Regional Practitioner for the California Doughnut Economics Coalition (CalDEC) and is an active member of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) global practitioner community.
Through Field + Form, she is developing place-based civic strategy and Civic Resilience Initiatives that connect regenerative economics, community capacity, systems thinking, and collaborative action.
The work continues to evolve through research, writing, mapping, conversation, and practice in the field.
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Daniela Hinman
Daniela Hinman is a civic designer and sustainability strategist whose work brings regenerative economics, community resilience, and democratic renewal into the design of places, organizations, and civic life.
Her work began in community arts, where she worked as a professional photographer and community arts organizer, producing exhibitions and events around questions of place, community, and local life. This experience in creative community engagement became a through line as her work moved into public policy, rural and environmental policy, sustainability, and Indigenous studies and advocacy.
Over time, these fields converged in regenerative economics and regenerative approaches to community development. Today, Daniela brings an analytical, systems-oriented approach to community engagement, research, facilitation, and visual thinking, helping translate complexity into relationships, opportunities, and strategies for action.
Daniela lives and works on California’s Central Coast, where she is raising her family and building a practice deeply connected to the region. The land and sea, communities and economies, ecological systems and civic institutions of the Central Coast are part of the context through which she understands her work.
Place is not simply the setting for civic strategy; it is part of the knowledge.