We use design thinking to help clients diagnose the urban social, market and policy environment, and ideate, prototype, and scale solutions to address urban development and business challenges.

 

Many development challenges and opportunities now, and into the future, will be in urban settings; they magnify global threats, such as youth unemployment, climate change, migration, water and food security and resource shortages. These urban challenges are particularly problematic for vulnerable urban communities with limited access to infrastructure and services. Only through innovation, collaboration and partnership, can organisations, authorities and businesses have social impact in these spaces, places and neighbourhoods.

We believe the development sector needs new approaches, business models, products and service innovations and ways of creating value to solve these urban development challenges. International development organisations and local authorities will need to be more agile in their approaches and willing to innovate through ideation, prototyping, and scaling program and policy reforms, to attract new investment and meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

We know these new solutions will require shared value and multi-sectoral partnerships to address funding needs and explore new pathways to creating sustainable impact at scale.

The Urban Platform Studio is a social impact advisory, project management and research consultancy, specialising in program design and delivery, social innovation and policy, social entrepreneurship, social investment and research across a broad range of topics, such as settlement planning, affordable housing, mobility, land use, smart cities, migration and urbanisation.  Our clients include NGOs and NFP's, community and mission-driven organisations, city government authorities, universities, impact organisations and for-purpose businesses, including social enterprises and social venture start-ups. We are registered in Australia with personnel located across the Asia and Australia.

 
 

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