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Promotional graphic for the Only Other Designers podcast, featuring a portrait of guest Kathleen Lechleiter.

Only Other Designers

A show celebrating the uniqueness of the design profession and broadening the definition of what it means to be a designer in the 21st century

Launching Soon

Attendees listen to a presentation during the Our Parks Symposium, a workshop on community-centered approaches to connecting Baltimore parks.

Our Parks Symposium

The symposium explores community-centered approaches on creating pathways, both physical and cultural, between Druid Hill Park and Carroll Park.

The official arrowhead logo of the National Park Service, a key partner in the TEN Baltimore initiative.

National Park Service

The National Park Service joins the TEN Baltimore initiative, an SCRD-led project to explore connections to cultural sites between Druid Hill Park and Carroll Park.

A GIF showing scenes from the SCRD and The Nature Conservancy urban forestry design workshop in Baltimore. The images cycle through community members and partners actively participating in the facilitation. They are seen using a design kit, collaborating on site-specific tree planting plans, and networking. This visualizes SCRD's process of community engagement and equitable placemaking in action.

The Nature Conservancy

In September, we helped bring community leaders to the table for a workshop hosted by our partners, The Nature Conservancy. This was the official launch of our on-the-ground efforts to support Baltimore's 5 Million Tree Initiative.

A Braintrust meeting for the Baltimore Vision Zero creative campaign, showing Baltimore-based artists and designers collaborating on concepts for non-vehicular transit.
SCRD team members in a design workshop with the Native American Lifeline community, reviewing architectural plans for their new health center in Mount Vernon.

Native American Lifeline

Members of the SCRD team joined the Native American Lifeline indigenous community at their future home in Mount Vernon to learn how the community envisions the design of their new health center.

A black and white photo collage of the inaugural cohort for Blackspace's Studio KIN, a national accelerator for urbanism design firms featured in Fast Company.

Fast Company: BlackSpace’s Studio KIN is accelerating young design firms.

Fast Company featured SCRD founder Courtney Morgan as part of the inaugural cohort for Blackspace's Studio KIN, a national accelerator for the next generation of urbanism design firms.

Baltimore Vision Zero

We hosted the first in-person Braintrust meeting for the Towards Zero creative campaign at Library 19. The session convened a group of Baltimore-based artists, writers, and designers to explore concepts for encouraging non-vehicular transit.

 Kinfolx Imagining Neighborhoods

Founder Courtney Morgan attended the Kinfolx Imagining Neighborhoods event at the new MoCADA Culture Lab. As a Studio KIN cohort member, she joined urbanists from across the nation to reimagine the value of place and power.

SCRD's Natalia Pizon with fellow panelists at the Neighborhood Design Center's placemaking forum, discussing the TEN Baltimore initiative led by our studio.

Neighborhood Design Center Placemaking Forum

Natalia Pizon was a featured panelist at the Neighborhood Design Center’s “The Vision is Yours” placemaking forum. She joined partners from the National Park Service and ULI Baltimore to share learnings from the TEN Baltimore community engagement strategy.

A candid, black and white photo of the SCRD team working, celebrating five years of collaborative design from their offices in Baltimore and Brooklyn.

SCRD turns 5

We turn FIVE in 2026! Join us as we share the stories of exploration, challenges and triumphs from our offices in Baltimore, Maryland and Brooklyn, New York.

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