A Thought from the Founder and CEO, Space 6 Studios

Our Coastal Communities Initiative seeks to forge community partnerships with community-specific coastal communities to provide and promote well-researched, planned, design, engineering, and training for disaster, emergency, and climate change preparedness. This will help create organized local assistance for early childhood-to-seniors pre-event, during, and post-emergency survival and sustainability. These skill sets are critical for the development of our SUV concept using an all-hands-on-deck, excuse-removal approach

We have increasingly culturally diverse coastal communities that bring new and untapped cultural exchange opportunities that will enable robust ongoing relationships between small and micro-businesses with the coastal communities they serve. And go beyond the primary transactional relationship level.

However, whatever your cultural, political, ideology, etc. views might be, we see that current disaster events including earthquakes, hurricanes, major flooding, fire pandemics, etc. do not discriminate on an ideological/cultural/geographical, etc. basis. We have not kept pace with the realities of our public-built environments, particularly in our coastal and adjacent communities worldwide  

I reflect on the need to redesign public spaces to serve as multifunctional community hubs that integrate evacuation and emergency preparedness plans, especially in high-risk, underserved coastal areas. While progress has been made in identifying major evacuation routes, there is a significant gap in pre-event planning for essential life support systems like clean water, electricity, and food sources during emergencies.

Our Studios promote “our past is not our future,” development thinking for the implementation of healthy, environmentally-friendly, sustainable communities with a focus on the development of scalable Sustainable Urban Villages (SUVs) and Enclaves that will enable the immediate implementation of low-cost, portable, multi-use, disaster-resistantspaces for public emergencies, disasters, and climate events. Specifically in coastal and adjacent communities.  

I reflect on the need to redesign public spaces to serve as multifunctional community hubs that integrate evacuation and emergency preparedness plans, especially in high-risk, underserved coastal areas. While progress has been made in identifying major evacuation routes, there is a significant gap in pre-event planning for essential life support systems like clean water, electricity, and food sources during emergencies.

Combining these systems with initiatives can link local communities to international resources, addressing needs before, during, and after disasters. This includes focusing on small businesses and entrepreneurial training programs that collaborate with local entities to promote sustainable economic initiatives in areas of shared-interested.

Strengthening local communities with user-friendly technologies is essential for daily use and for maintaining health and wellness resources. A scalable, portable, and low-cost approach is needed to develop robust disaster and sustainability strategies tailored to at-risk coastal communities worldwide. This involves reimagining the use of public spaces for various events and integrating advanced research, training, sustainable technologies, and cultural exchange initiatives to create environmentally friendly and sustainable communities that go beyond traditional development methods.

We conducted extensive research on six sites, referred to as Space 6 Studios, to analyze and align with our proposed business model for addressing specific needs. Some of these sites are moving forward to become designated prototype Sustainable Urban Villages/(SUVs)/Enclave sites.