Timbre Consultants

About Us 
Timbre Consultants is committed to the design and implementation of urban policy, communications and bricks and mortar initiatives that embody and build upon community strengths. We believe that meaningful collaboration is the best way to achieve creative and tangible results.
Our Services
Whether through research, project planning or public relations, we know how to work with the public, private and institutional stakeholders that can influence a project’s outcome. We guide our clients through complex planning processes - from conception to implementation - so that the project vision is met and is delivered within budget.

RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS TO UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNITY CONTEXT, FRAMEWORKS AND RELEVANT BEST PRACTICES.
  • Legislative and policy research
  • Demographic and socioeconomic research
  • Market research and analysis
  • Environmental impact studies
  • Land use and zoning analysis
  • Community needs assessment
  • Urban trend analysis
  • Design and user research
COMMUNITY AND POLITICAL ORGANIZING FOR AN ENGAGING AND COMMUNITY-ORIENTED PLANNING PROCESS.
  • Campaign strategy and management
  • Outreach
  • Advocacy
  • Political strategy
  • Public relations
  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Workshop facilitation: collaborative design, public feedback
  • Message development
ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT TO HELP YOUR ORGANIZATION RESPOND TO COMMUNITY NEEDS.
  • Visioning and concept development
  • Communications strategy
  • Social media strategy
  • Government affairs strategy
  • Project briefing and marketing
  • Funding support and grant writing
  • Program design
  • Tool design
  • RFP process design and writing
Focus Areas
We collaborate with community-based-organizations, community development corporations, public agencies and research institutions making impacts in the following areas:

Land Use Planning

Neighborhood Transition

Smart Citizen Initiatives

Learning and Cultural Environments

Community Schools

Community Services Design and Delivery

Collaborative Workplace Models 

Selected Projects
Perspective
Our cities and towns are rapidly changing, as are the technologies we use to measure, predict, design and build with. In the race to ride this momentum we see public agencies, private developers and service providers alike favoring technocratic, big data-driven and large-scale solutions. Something very important is being lost in the shuffle: the existing knowledge, character and strengths embedded in our communities. We believe in planning practices that are participatory and targeted and we work to advance initiatives that demonstrate creative ways of working together, that are designed with empathy and that respond to real community needs.
Our Team 
We are a network of urban planners, organizers, public affairs professionals, designers and engineers. We have experience working with community-based organizations, elected officials, business and institutional leadership, and seek to work with those aspiring to make change and willing to do the hard work to make it happen.

Antonina is an urbanist committed to creating new models for economically and environmentally sustainable development. She is interested in participatory planning and place-based interventions that challenge traditional planning processes and frameworks in order to creatively meet broad policy goals. Her professional experience includes non-profit program management, design strategy, public policy research, user research, teaching and environmental impact analysis. 

Antonina has worked with a range of stakeholders including government agencies, elected officials, community-based organizations, business leaders, cultural and higher education institutions, designers and educators. She holds a master’s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Brad’s career has taken him from urban planning to organizing, public advocacy, politics and post-disaster recovery project and program management. His career has allowed him to learn and navigate all channels required to build an effective public project.

He is deeply committed to a holistic planning process that considers the social, economic and the physical needs of a community. He is especially interested in folding in the arts as well as technological tools and trends to empower a community to reach its goals. He holds a master's degree in urban planning from Hunter College.
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