lowercase is a design lab and studio partnering with community-led organizations to co-design and craft accessible, impactful civic tools rooted in data and lived experience.
lowercase launched officially in 2025, grounded in a commitment to justice, dignity, and community-led impact. It's for mission-aligned communities, organizations and civic leaders seeking to co-create solutions that are equitable, thoughtful, and rooted in the actual experiences of the people they serve. By weaving together data, research, and lived experience, _lowercase_ amplifies community voices and turns that insight into clear, accessible materials—supporting organizations to engage stakeholders, communicate complex ideas, and drive meaningful social change. You can engage through co-design sessions, consulting, or retaining our design team. Whether you bring lived experience, research data, or civic leadership, joining forces with _lowercase_ opens the door to collaboratively building more just and dignified civic tools. We also develop and build products and services designed to shape a world where everyone is able to live a dignified life. Sharing our story / projects would be a great way to show support.
CHSR is dedicated to developing empirically-based knowledge to improve the design and delivery of services that address social issues and meet community needs in the Capital region, across New York State, and across the United States.
Community Technology Empowerment Network (CTEN) is a refugee-founded and led organisation, which began in 2016 as community-based initiative in Rhino Camp refugee settlement West Nile region of Uganda
The Digital Garden is designed to bring together two fields of research: participatory research and Indigenous research.
The New Practice Lab's theory of change is deceptively simple: we should design public goods and services the same way we design the most successful private goods and services— in partnership with the people who use them, and suited to the digital age in which we live.
