MKThink

For over a decade, MKThink has worked closely with its sister company, RoundhouseOne, to make places better through spatial intelligence. Discover more about their synergistic partnership in our latest blog and the success they have achieved together, optimizing the performance of physical spaces for a sustainable future. #MKThink #RoundhouseOne #BetterPlaces #BuildLessSolveMore #SpatialIntelligence #Design #Data #SustainableFuture #Architecture

Placemaking designs public spaces to build community and strengthen connections. At MKThink, we embrace this approach to create intelligent spaces that enhance health, happiness, and well-being. Our client, Hawaii State Department of Education, partners with the Art in Public Places and Mele Murals programs to connect local artists with schools. These projects celebrate Hawaii's history and inspire pride in youth and the community. Examples of artworks in Hawai'i schools include: https://lnkd.in/ekUkWQBW Want to know how you can incorporate placemaking into your school to optimize student and community engagement? Contact us at office@mkthink.com

Are you ready to take your career to exciting new heights? We're hiring an Operational Systems lead at MKThink. #Hiring #JobOpening #Strategy #Consulting #CareerOpportunities #JoinOurTeam #InnovationLeaders

Learning outcomes are central to MKThink's practice, evaluating how spaces and environments enhance knowledge. We integrate design, psychology, culture, and environment to create learning spaces that guide our work with schools, universities, and beyond. In our latest blog post, we explore the importance of education specifications (Ed Specs) in learning outcomes. Ed Specs define the programmatic, functional, spatial, and environmental needs of new or remodeled educational facilities, illustrating how the built environment supports the academic program and vision of school leadership. #MKThink #EdSpecs #HigherEducation #K-12 #LearningOutcomes #Architecture #FrameworkPlanning #EducationalFacilities #FacilitiesPlanning

MKThink creates better places. In carrying out our mission to build less and solve more, spatial data and its intelligent analysis are essential to creating intelligent places. Essential to MKThink's success in creating intelligent places is the collection and analysis of spatial data. Such data translates environmental, structural, and human conditions into information that guides design, removing guesswork and creating room for innovative solutions. MKThink collaborates with its sister company, RoundhouseOne, to deliver intelligent spatial analytics by leveraging quantitative data. The RoundhouseOne team ensures rigorous and precise data collection, auditing, gap identification, and comprehensive analysis. Read more about how MKThink and RoundhouseOne work together to create and empower intelligent places through #SpatialIntelligence. 💡 #MKThink #RoundhouseOne #RH1 #SpatialIntelligence #CreatingIntelligentPlaces #IntelligentPlaces #BuildLessSolveMore #DataAnlytics

Last week MKThink attended, “Blue Glue: Cities, Ports, and People - Writing the Next Chapter,” a webinar supporting Capitol Hill’s Ocean Week and World Ocean Day on June 8th. An inspirational discussion organized by Janelle Kellman, Esq. (She/Her) from the Center of Sea Rise Solutions and Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy, WEDG from the World Ocean Council brought minds and thought leaders from across the Ocean and Coastal space to share their organization's actions and efforts toward supporting Blue Glue. This event continued conversations from the topic's first launch at the UN Ocean Decade conference in Barcelona this past April and featured speakers Caya Dhuique-Hein from AIVP and Juliette Lassman from OECD - OCDE. 💡 "Blue glue" is a newly proposed term that captures the idea of ports and harbors serving as connectors among neighboring communities, the maritime industry, and coastal stakeholders. This concept explores new opportunities in workforce development, innovation, and economic growth, all while addressing the climate crisis and promoting equity and inclusion. Read our latest post to learn more about our key takeaways and connection to Blue Glue. 🌊👇 Looking forward to joining more conversations like this one! #BlueGlue #BlueEconomy #Community #MKThink #ClimateChange #WorldOceanDay

Building off our blog post from last week, our team dove into Adaptive Reuse opportunities and examples here in San Francisco's downtown area. San Francisco has been faced with high level of commercial vacancies since the pandemic, raising concerns over the future of downtown. To reinvigorate the downtown area, the City of San Francisco and Mayor Breed created the "Roadmap to Downtown San Francisco's Future." A key element of this strategy is Adaptive Reuse, a concept central to the practice at MKThink. Read more about active projects in place that rely on Adaptive Reuse to turn San Francisco's downtown area back into a vibrant community space. Interested in learning more about how adaptive reuse can enhance your space? Contact us here: https://lnkd.in/gwFWvh9c #AdaptiveReuse #SanFrancisco #Downtown #VacantToVibrant #MKThink #BuildLessSolveMore https://lnkd.in/g2g_9CBQ

Model projections show that over 2.5 billion people are expected to live in urban areas by 2050. Concerns over space scarcity, resource allocation, and climate resiliency push cities, architects, and urban planners to search for answers within an existing infrastructure. Adaptive reuse, put simply, is the repurposing of old, outdated, and abandoned structures and spaces for new use. Today, it is considered one of the best architectural strategies to promote social justice and address the climate crisis. It functions as a tool to realize urban regeneration, preserve cultural heritage, and reduce costs and environmental impacts from construction and new materials, all while creating prosperity and redistributing opportunity in condensed urban centers. Research shows that in most circumstances, adaptive reuse "better establishes or retains community identity and does more to foster local pride than new construction." 👇 Read more about how MKThink demonstrates the benefits of adaptive reuse across their projects.

MKThink’s mission to create intelligent places shapes solutions in community strength, healthy environments, learning outcomes, systems optimization, and The Edge. By leveraging extensive experience, client insights, and worldwide perspectives, MKThink addresses pressing contemporary concerns as well as anticipates future challenges through its meaningful designs. Learn more about what our solutions mean to us. Interested in working with us? Contact us here: https://lnkd.in/gwFWvh9c

MKThink not only works ON the edge, with office locations on the Pacific Ocean border in San Francisco, California, and Honolulu, Hawai’i, but AT the edge, where its projects address pressing issues in uncharted territory. Co-founder and chairperson, Mark Raymond Miller, FAIA, LEEDap states, “Edge, to us, is both a physical and metaphysical place.” Working beyond consistency and comfort, MKThink thrives at the intersections of environmental, cultural, architectural, and technological edges. 👇 Read our latest blog to learn more about our relationship to the edge across a range of projects. https://lnkd.in/g83eY7as