Working with school staff, students, and community members, Convene Principal Landscape Architect Eric Higbee designed a series of creative interventions to breathe life and play back into the school grounds for this culturally diverse elementary school. Through a series of community meetings, Eric established the...
Convene is helping bring to fruition the renovation of this popular five-acre Pierce County Park in southeast Tacoma. The project includes multiple components, including the renovation of an existing playground and basketball courts, a new perimeter path, new ADA accessible entrance and walkways, and more. ...
Convene is proud to release its most recent collaborative effort: Out and Under, a design and feasibility study for the emergency deployment of outdoor covered learning spaces during COVID-19. Some of Convene's most recent work has focused on re-envisioning and redesigning schoolyard spaces, with an emphasis...
A wetland is a habitat of rich biodiversity. A neighborhood is a habitat of rich cultural diversity. What happens when a neighborhood has the opportunity to restore a wetland and integrate it into the surrounding community? Convene has been working to discover that answer through...
Based on student and community input, Convene’s work with Highland Park Elementary has set a new precedent for natural play in the Seattle School District. The future playground incorporates natural play elements such as a log scramble, boulder climb, outdoor classroom areas, digging areas, rain...
For the Hawthorne Elementary PTA, the acre-plus of asphalt comprising it playground was an opportunity missed during the years of investment by teachers, staff and parents to turn-around this Title 1 “High Poverty School.” The PTA tasked Convene PLLC to utilize a re-visioning of the...