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We are strategists, designers, and developers who believe that responsibly-designed technology can empower meaningful change.

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Collaboration Creates Better Results

You and your community can get to better ideas when working together, not apart. Civil Space provides a trusted, welcoming digital home in which to meet and collaborate.

Context is Critical

Whether you’re reaching out about a particular project, or gathering feedback on your organization as a whole, use our platform to provide in-depth contextual information to help build informed communities. Civil Space integrates with and comes alongside your in-person engagement efforts, providing audiences with a full spectrum of robust outreach activities.

Empathy Builds Consensus

Your audience members need to understand what is important to each other and why, as well as the processes and realities at hand to work through. Organizations need to understand the future their communities are hoping for. Build empathy and consensus through visibility, dialogue, and context-sharing.

Engagement is Iterative

Truly collaborative decision-making ensures that audiences feel heard and are content with the outcomes of the engagement process. Establish ongoing cycles of informed dialogue and timely reporting, and build trust with your community.

Trust Starts With Data

Audiences need to know that their data is safe and secure with your organization, used solely for the purposes for which it was collected. Safeguard your participants’ data, and reassure them with Civil Space’s robust privacy measures.

Design Thinking Adapted for Engagements

Our toolset is informed by the proven tenets of effective design thinking: ensuring that context is understood, problems and opportunities are clearly defined, a broad array of solutions are proposed, and consensus is built around the final approach.

Our network

Civil Space evolved from a collaborative partnership between UX and digital strategists at Domain7 and a veteran team of public servants. Today, we work closely and consult with city planners, public engagement advisors, and senior strategists from public service organizations, municipalities, and government bodies across North America.

The Civil Space network includes user experience designers, engagement strategists, content strategists, full-stack developers, visual designers, community facilitators and product owners who have worked with projects across the IAP2 spectrum, ranging from high-touch content management systems for municipalities and public organizations, to complex digital permitting applications, intranets, and mobile applications that serve citizens across the world.

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"We wanted to be able to engage with people when they’re standing in a grocery store line up, or sitting on the bus. Make it quick and mobile friendly.”

Mairi Welman, District of North Vancouver

Engagement Strategist

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