Creating Places & Spaces
through Story & Design

CREATING PLACES & SPACES
THROUGH STORY & DESIGN

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Who We Are

Destination Design • Creative Placemaking • Community Reinvention

The Nish Initiative Team strives to apply our passion and expertise in placemaking and hospitality design to public and private use developments, and branded experiences alike. From community enhancements and urban revitalization projects to authentic guest engagements, we provide comprehensive management and creative leadership to our clients by facilitating project planning, design, and implementation from start to finish.

We provide tools and solutions that provoke and inspire people in new ways, leading to a greater joy, understanding and appreciation of the world around them, always respecting and celebrating the history, culture and unique story of every project and community.

Nish Initiative, LLC, is a woman-veteran-owned business.

Our Process

WE LEAD

the design process by guiding the client through all phases – from concept design to full implementation.

WE CREATE

by working with your specific needs in mind, to identify potential revitalization opportunities for communities and developers alike. From a simple building facade addition, color palate revision or cohesive naming, branding and graphics plan, to an entire transformation of buildings and streetscapes, we create places and spaces for communities to gather and connect.

WE RESOLVE

to collaborate with communities, by holding organized public charrettes, compiling the needs, wants, and concerns that surface from these brainstorming sessions. Ideas are put into motion by planning and executing a new design.

Our Principles

WE BELIEVE

that all impactful guest engagements share some common elements. At Nish Initiative, we are passionate about looking for ways to enhance people’s everyday experiences by engaging interactive and effective storytelling through design.

OUR MISSION

by way of smart placemaking and reuse, is to help harmonize the world one art installation, one neighborhood district, and one urban revitalization project at a time.

OUR MOTTO

"Let us help you help yourself" begins at the start of every venture by establishing that the team and the project are following the path to success together.

What We Do

CREATIVE PLACEMAKING & PLACE ATTACHMENT

 

Our clients usually come to us with a goal in mind. It could be as simple as, “Where would these trees and benches best serve the community?”, or as complex as, “How can we revive this neighborhood?”

With an objective identified, the process may begin by hosting ideation and creative sessions, engaging the public, the city, and targeted specialists.

What We Do

BRANDING & BRAND DESTINATIONS

 

Our team has a unique and insightful, client-focused approach to every project that has driven results on award-winning brand destinations around the globe.

We work closely with Developers and our clients, to create thematically rich and emotionally inspiring destinations. While we remain equally committed to discovering new ways to enhance people’s everyday experiences through engaging and effective design.

What We Do

GUEST EXPERIENCE & COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT

 

We design and develop small to large-scale guest experiences.

Using an all-inclusive creative approach, we start with the Developers Community Master Plan. From there we zoom in to create exactly what the story is, where the experience will lead, and how it unfolds for each and every guests’ encounter.

What We Do

URBAN DESIGN & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

 

From masterplanning to landscape architecture, we work closely with our clients to create vibrant public spaces, urban plazas, trails, streetscapes, waterfronts, campuses, and other areas in the public realm.

We synthesize all of the ideas and feedback into a preliminary plan incorporating visual reference, concept designs, and feasibility data to illustrate custom solutions for the city and the community to consider.
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How to Build Public Spaces for Teen Girls

Teen girls are neither children nor adults, meaning they have specific needs and behaviours different from both these groups. Unfortunately, like many marginalized groups, these needs and behaviours have not been met or encouraged through our built environment as it has for others. For example, playgrounds are built for children to let off steam and […]
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EPCOT: Walt Disney’s New Urbanist City

Beneath the Spaceship Earth geodesic sphere and the display of world cultures that symbolize Disney World’s EPCOT lies the buried vision for a utopian city. The original EPCOT – a community built around innovation – was one of Walt Disney’s last visionary projects. Bothered by haphazard urban sprawl,Disney had bold ideas for an urban fabric that would […]
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Neuroarchitecture: How Your Brain Responds to Different Spaces

Have you ever heard of neuroarchitecture? What would spaces look like if architects designed buildings based on the emotions, healing and happiness of the user?
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" The Nish Initiative Team shares a desire to apply our expertise and understanding of guest experience design to urban revitalization and public use projects. "
Judy Nish
Founder Nish Initiative, LLC
" It is the creative force that has allowed me to work with clients to develop projects that create magical places and experiences that result in inspiring people to participate, learn from, and inspire their lives. "
Zofia Kostyrko
Designer - Dezign Skape LLC

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