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Want To Attract People to Your Space? Grab Them by the Edge!
If semi-enclosures are the secret to our comfort in public spaces, then the quality of borders and edges determine our experience through them.
From once a year to every day: creating long term vitality from big events
Using big events as opportunities to reshape habits
Creating Connections Through Surprise & Delight
Using play and creativity to foster ongoing connections between people and place.
6 Ways to Draw a Crowd When it's Freezing Outside
How to make magic happen no matter how low the temperatures go.
Winter Magic-Making: Turning Challenges Into Opportunities
Creating meaningful experiences that not only withstand, but celebrate, the cold weather months.
Predicting the Future Through Pilots
Even the best surveys can't predict the future; we can use pilots to gauge what may happen with more accuracy and accountability to the end-user. Part 3…
Good Questions Lead to Good Answers
Focusing on experiences over objects, and linking questions to actions. Part 2 in our series on Engagement and Accountability.
The 6 Traps of Community Engagement (and their remedies)
Kicking off our ongoing series on how to collaborate with users to create thriving places which reflect their needs and desires.
Creating Real and Perceived Safety
Sustained safety can only be achieved through positive activity
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Max Musicant
A Hierarchy for Habits: Experience & Event Strategy for Activation
How important have events been in the life of cities and human settlement?
6 Design Relationships to Create Great Places
The Musicant Group’s work is guided by a focus on experiences and a dynamic process rather than a static one which creates places through individual…
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Max Musicant
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