LANDiMERA (land of mine) is an organization aiming to engage, empower, and educate marginalized population or the unpopular populations through research and design. We believe in the importance of social design and trust that public engagement, collaboration of the creative minds, and the impact of landscape architecture to create places that are made by the people, for the people.

Design, and landscape architecture specifically, is a very creative and engaging tool that will allow for changes in quality of life, safety of spaces, and creating a sense of belonging for individuals and groups who may need it most.

Globalization, although positive in many ways, has increased outsourcing of jobs, one of which is design and planning for communities and cities thousands of miles away. LANDiMERA aims to bridge that gap by engaging, co-creating, and working on implementation of research findings and designs that are for and by the people of a given community.

LANDiMERA is a platform for conversations, a canvas for creation, and a space for innovation. The organization seeks for opportunities to engage, educate, and empower the interested unpopular populations through community building and design solutions. Every person counts. Every opinion matters. Age, race, gender, ethnicity, belief, education, economic, and social status of individual should not be a reason for poor built environment. They matter. Places matter, and the two are interactive to make an active, safe, and a vibrant society. 

When there is a sense of place, there is care, when there is care, there is humanity, when there is humanity, who knows, the world might just get a little bit better.