Our Clients are discreet. Our strategies are uniquely curated and developed confidentially to meet their needs. We honour the trust our collaborators invest in us, so we share mindfully to honour them.

Decanthropy delivered services for the Ontario Professional Planning Institute to implement a 5-year sector-transforming strategy embedding foresight, equity, social justice, and reconciliation to engage change for those impacted by Ontario’s planning system. Using foresight tools, co-creation workshops, and culturally grounded evaluation, the strategy delivered a three-tiered change framework to align and reshape organizational practices through governance, data, education, and community-led innovation.  This work exemplifies Decanthropy’s ability to engage at systems, policy, and relational levels—relevant to municipalities, communities and rights-holders committed to measurable future-ready strategic planning, implementation and monitoring.

Decanthropy is delivering services for the executive leadership of Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre to design a holistic, foresight-informed, equity-based physical environment audit and framework. The strategy and design recommendations embed cultural safety, trauma-informed design, and universal accessibility principles into infrastructure planning, aligning spatial standards with community wellbeing, Truth and Reconciliation, and inclusive healthcare excellence across changing Indigenous, settler, and vulnerable populations.

This dynamic project highlights Decanthropy's capacity to lead large-scale systemic planning. It draws on multidisciplinary insights and culturally responsive methodologies to tackle socio-economic issues. The goal is to mitigate risks and enhance value, envisioning a future of care for both northern Indigenous and settler communities.

Decanthropy helped define an approach to develop more than a building. As a result, we are setting out to eliminate societal stigma assigned to individuals with intellectual disabilities by design. Reframing a project from this perspective reimagines community care. 

Decanthropy supported The Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) an independent, non-profit accrediting organization navigate uncertainties by modeling future opportunities through resilient, innovative, and adaptive strategies. Decanthropy engaged leadership teams with strategic planning tools to establish long-term viability of their enterprise and stakeholders. The plan is bold, we are also crafting content to tell a story as unique as the organization itself.  

Decanthropy led an executive team at MillerKnoll in exploring a desired future where trust and belonging are deeply embedded in interactions and processes to support their dynamic teams. We believe those closest to any issue are best equipped to impact change. We just help facilitate. 

Food waste and insecurity encompass an enormous scope of several issues, globally. This includes, but is not limited to food production, commercialization, societal inequities, human greed or poor environment stewardship. The Crisis of Care insights represents an early stage investigation to finding possible opportunities and unmet needs at the intersection of the “Last-mile” for food waste within the Hotel Industry in Barbados and the food insecurity of its ageing population over 65 years old. 

Hohm is a daytime senior and childcare service set in a residential enclave in St. James Barbados. Hohm represents a cross-generation approach to care and programming to support the connection between primary kids 1-8 years old and seniors aged +65.  The main residence provides senior-centric care and gathering, while the pavilions support studio activities for learning and exploring. The central gathering space provides an intentional place to engage in traditional storytelling. The concept for the project seeks to provide alternative care models to bridge generational gaps and strengthen the community.

Durham College retained Decanthropy to reimagine interior decoration and design education for our future world. The exciting 2-Year Program project launches in FALL 2025 and will seek to restate the value of design within an established educational framework to drive change and innovation. 

The anticipated decommissioning of the airfield provides a unique opportunity to reconsider the potential of this large site, strategically-located in a growing city and region. Ian Rolston of Decanthropy collaborated with a research and foresight team led by OCAD’s Sara Diamond and Jeremy Bowes and U of T’s Robert Wright and Fadi Mousad. Rolston worked with a exceptional group of researchers to analyze case studies, develop personas and scenario planning for Toronto’s latest phased future neighborhood. Rolston’s equity-informed perspectives provoked dialogue and considerations received by a diverse team of real estate developers, technians, educators and generative design experts. 

CEE Centre for Young Black Professionals 3YR Strategic Plan (2024) Decanthropy developed a 3-year strategic framework for the CEE Centre for Young Black Professionals Executive Leadership, aligning operations, data systems, and programming to enhance resilience for system-level change and economic engagement. The plan integrated equity, foresight, viability analysis, environmental scans, futures skills analysis, workshops, culturally informed measurement frameworks and stakeholder engagement. The comprehensive strategy positioned CEE to respond to rapid socio-economic change while enhancing its mission to support Black youth. The results reflect Decanthropy’s capability to develop system interventions with scalable tools for resilience, community engagement, and implementation.