Method, not formula. Every project is different. The orientations we bring are not.
What follows are five things that show up in the room, no matter what we're making. They aren't steps. They're ways of being present.
Bricolage is a design practice grounded in attention, adaptation, and recombination. We pay close attention to any imbalance, constraints, materials and possibilities already in the space.
Nothing starts from nothing. Most projects already know what they're becoming. The first job is listening for it. Not to requirements. To the project tension itself.
We consider the materials already in the room, the histories, and the half-formed instincts everyone has been working around.
A half-built system. A roadmap that's slipped. A wall that wants something. A team that's lost its common language. These aren't problems to be cleared away. They're the materials.
Bricolage is iterative. We try. We look. We adjust. Sometimes the breakthrough is simply noticing what everyone has been working around.
We say what we think, and we try to do it with care. We negotiate where flexibility helps the work and hold steady where something important is at stake.
The relationships we build tend to outlast the projects themselves. We think that's a sign the work was done well.