Civic Design Labs
Civic Design Labs are facilitated gatherings that bring together civic leaders, practitioners, and community members to think more clearly about the systems, relationships, and imaginative capacities that shape community life.
Lab StructureEach lab creates a structured container for deep engagement with a theme — regenerative economics, institutional collaboration, place-based governance, civic storytelling — drawing on systems thinking, design practice, and relational facilitation. The format is participatory and exploratory, designed to generate insight rather than prescribe solutions.
Collaborative Community Design
Labs are extended by invitation to leaders across the civic, financial, philanthropic, and institutional sectors, and open to community members including artists, educators, organizers, and neighbors. No prior expertise is required — only a genuine interest in how communities think, design, and act together.
2026 Civic Themes
March — Relational Foundations: Building the Civic Container
April — Civic Storytelling: Signs, Stories, and Social Futures
May — What Happened Here: Measuring Cultural Economy and Social Impact
June — Designing Local Economies
July — Designing Institutional Relationships
August — Thinking Ecologies: Place, Stewardship, and Interdependence
September — From Insight to Action
October — Regenerative Community in Practice
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.John Dewey
Dates, Times + Registration
Labs run monthly, March through October, following a cumulative arc from relational foundations to applied practice. Each session stands alone and can be attended independently.
For upcoming lab dates and registration, contact daniela@fieldandformca.com
FIELD + FORM
CIVIC DESIGN FOR REGENERATIVE, RESILIENT COMMUNITIES