A practice of strategic advisory, writing, and interdisciplinary projects.
Dialogue? Projects lives through the work collected here. Companies being built. People figuring out what comes next. Films and photographs. Workshops. Writing. Products you can hold. Places to gather. Old projects finding new lives and new ones taking shape.
LANDSCAPES OF RESILIENCE
The Unexpected Similarities Between Urban and Rural Worlds
The bustling energy of the big city and the vast power of nature—we often assume these environments are opposites. They are pure in their essence—unfiltered, undiluted, and entirely themselves. The energy, movement, and inertia that arise from these environments reflect the raw nature of their origins. Beneath their surface differences, these environments share profound commonalities.
Both demand adaptability. Both challenge their inhabitants to be resourceful. Both cultivate resilience and an appreciation for the unpredictable rhythms of life...
STRONGER TOGETHER SHORT FILM
“Helping build skateparks on Native reservations to create positive outlets for youth in communities facing significant mental health challenges.”
Dialogue? started in New York City in 2003.
Ely was in high school when his older sister, Mckendree, asked him to help with an art project. She was writing messages in the windows of her apartment, visible from across the street, neighboring buildings, rooftops and passing double-decker buses.
The idea led to long conversations between them.
In New York, you can live ten feet from another person for years and never speak to them. That anonymity can be wonderful. It can also create boundaries, miscommunication and loneliness.
The question was what might happen if you interrupted it.
They called the project Dialogue?
THE MAKING OF
DIALOGUE? PROJECTS