Empowering Organizations Through Collaborative Design.

At IGM Design Consultants, we’re dedicated to making sure everyone has a voice in the design process. We focus on transforming design engagement by recognizing and using the valuable insights that your staff and clients bring, based in their lived and living experience.

We provide practical tools and lead engaging workshops rooted in trauma- and violence-informed, intersectional, and equitable practices, to help your organization understand and describe your spatial needs. With our expertise in research, architectural design, and the social service sector, we’re committed to designing engagement processes that truly reflect your values.

Services

Engagement Planning + Facilitation

Create and facilitate a personalized engagement plan to meet your design goals, using a trauma- and violence-informed, intersectional and equity-oriented lens.


Tailored Tool Development

Adapt our research-backed engagement tools to the specific needs of your organization so that you can be confident you are asking the right questions to the right people.


Graphic Design and Knowledge Mobilization

Design a variety of documentation to seamlessly transition the learnings from your organization or project into action with continued support throughout the dissemination process.


We tailor all of our services to your needs and project goals, including:

  • Review and consultation on project goals and processes using a trauma- and violence-informed, intersectional and equity-oriented lens
  • Designing a variety of documentation to seamlessly transition the learnings from your organization or project into action with continued support throughout the dissemination process.
  • Ongoing engagement consultation and facilitation throughout your project

Free Resources

Designing to Empower: An Action Kit for Engaged Design Literacy in Women’s Shelters

‘Even our physical buildings are f* cked’: Navigating Spatial Shocks in Women’s Shelters During COVID-19 and Recommendations for Future Resilience

Planning Shelter Service Spaces and Structures for Resilience: A Spatial Analysis of Women’s Shelters During COVID-19

Shelter Spaces and Pandemic Response: A Best Practices Handbook for Flexible Space Planning

“Our services are not the same”: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on care interactions in women’s shelters

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