Services

The consultancy is built on a foundation of cultural change analysis, strategy, sustainability, communication, place making and intelligent trend forecast

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Strategy

Define what you know today and how to focus on tomorrow

  • Strategy roadmaps
  • Brand strategy
  • Place Branding
  • Experience

Sustainability and transparency

Fit in the present, a strategy towards sustainability

  • Sustainability roadmap
  • Communications to proof sustainability
  • Supply chain analysis
  • Social impact analysis
  • CO2 impact analysis

Futures intelligence and innovation

Understand external forces and audiences that affect your business, identify intelligent futures

  • Trend and consumer intelligence
  • Consumer insight
  • Innovation research, analysis and report
  • Innovation roadmap
  • Retail innovation

Cities

Designing strategies to boost participatory experiences in our cities, updated uses in grown floors and inclusive place branding, strategy and positioning

  • Strategic plans
  • Use of empty space
  • New grown floor uses
  • Place branding
  • Participatory cities
  • Urban revitalization
  • Service design
  • Place experience
  • Place Sustainability

Selected Work

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1/10

Place Branding

Scope
Sustainability, strategy, editorial, transparency, strategy, blockchain, retail, innovation, communications, visual identity, photography, coffee, tea, clothes, meat, artisans

Client
Born Comerç

Team
Marc Monguilod (Design) Jara Varela (Photography) Provenance (Technology)

Year
2019

A publication to boost retail transparency with Tiny Cottons, Cafés El Magnífico, Tes Sans&Sans, Sagardi Restaurant, Artisans from El Born and Gravin restaurant

2/10

Product sustainability and transparency

Scope
Sustainability, transparency, strategy, blockchain, retail, innovation, communications, visual identity, photography, coffee, tea, clothes, meat, artisans

Client
Born Comerç Barcelona Oberta

Team
Provenance (Technology) Case study

Year
2019

A project to boost retail transparency with Tiny Cottons, Cafés El Magnífico, Tes Sans&Sans, Sagardi Restaurant, Artisans from El Born and Gravin restaurant. Using the blockchain tech platform to make supply chains more transparent

3/10

Place Branding

Scope
Strategy, retail, lively cities, user experience, participatory cities, Cultural and Retail Destination, innovation, communications, social impact

Client
Rambla Catalunya Retailers

Team
Marc Monguilod (Visual Identity)

Year
2019

We designed a strategy roadmap to define the positioning, the experience and visual identity of La Rambla Catalunya new brand

4/10

Brand strategy

Scope
Strategy, retail, intelligent trend forecast, innovation, communications, visual identity, branding

Client
Gremi Carn

Team
Marc Monguilod (Visual Identity)

Year
2019

Re-thinking the meat market narrative and strategy in Catalunya by developing an intelligent trend forecast and building the Catalan Meat Association brand strategy and positioning, a new visual identity, storytelling and communications road map

5/10

Place Branding - Local community

Scope
Strategy, retail, city, local community, sustainability, lively cities, communications, social impact, visual identity, place branding, photo, video, magazine

Client
Sant Andreu District

Team
Pol Solsona (Visual identity)
Leo Croma (Photography) Anna Pla-Narbona (video)

Links Eix Sant Andreu

Year
2019

Define a brand strategy and visual identity to bring together retailers and the local community at Sant Andreu Retailers Association

6/10

Empty spaces strategy

Scope
Strategy, retail, urban revitalisation, intelligent trend forecast, empty space, sustainability, lively cities, participatory cities, entrepreneurs, innovation, communications, social impact

Client
Barcelona Comerç

Year
2019

Strategy to re-think Barcelona's grown floors uses in commercial areas. Bespoke and exploratory study on innovative uses, urban revitalisation and local community needs

7/10

Place strategy

Scope
Strategy, retail, urban revitalisation, intelligent trend forecast, empty space, sustainability, lively cities, participatory cities, entrepreneurs, innovation, communications, social impact

Client
Barcelona City Council

Team
El Rissell Cooperative

Link
News

Year
2018

Strategic Plan that re-thinks the Paral·lel Avenue bringing together local business, hospitality sector, retailers, cultural sector and the local community from the three districts surrounding the Avenue.

8/10

Place strategy

Scope
Strategy, local community, retail, lively cities, participatory cities, workshops, cultural and retail Destination, communications, urbanism, business

Client
Sant Andreu Retailers Ass

Year
2018

Strategic actions plan to transform Sant Andreu Retailers Ass into a BID (Business Improvement District) One of the two first pilots in Barcelona to define BIDs opportunities in Barcelona

9/10

Place revitalisation

Scope
Sustainability, strategy, retail, empty space, lively cities, entrepreneur,participatory cities, Cultural Destination, innovation, communications, social impact

Client
El Bòlit Centre d'Arts

Year
2018

Working with 6 European Cities to revitalize urban areas through activating empty spaces for creative benefit (The Spur project)

10/10

Place Branding

Scope
Strategy, branding, experience, cities, innovation, communications, visual identity

Client
Future Places Global Cultural Districts Network

Team
Future Places

Year
2017

A research on Branding Cultural Districts and Destinations. A joint research by Future Places from Barcelona and the Global Cultural Districts Network

Working with us

Clients

Main clients are private business, settled brands, new brands, institutions, cities and public bodies

Studio

Collaborations are key to some projects. We set up teams to create digital expressions, content and to guide brands to honestly and effectively communicate and share their stories online and in-store.

These are some of the talented people we use to collaborate with:
Graphic Designer Marc Monguilod, Photographer Jara Varela, Visual Communicator Pol Solsona or Space, object and Set designer Santi Guerrero

Partners