Hi, I’m JanosI am an artist, community design strategist, and inventor.
I empower individuals, leaders, and organizations to realize their innovation initiatives and nurture the communities they aspire to create.
This deliberately designed approach fosters an environment of new ideas, equity, and camaraderie. Because maximum creativity only happens when the entire community is safe, welcome, and heard.“The true potential of a creative space lies in its diverse cultural ecosystem, which nourishes equitable exploration, fosters audacious transdisciplinary collaboration, and empowers community members throughout their lives."
Janos' community strategy design embodies a holistic community-building ethos, ensuring that equity and safe, audacious exploration remain central to the creative process.
1. Community
Intentionally assemble a diverse team of members representing the full breadth of identities, sociocultural literacies, and skills.
2. Safely
Your diverse team defines the approaches necessary to blend perspectives, designing the style, systems, and initiatives that ensure a mentally and physically safe community.
3. Explores
Your mentally and physically safe community fosters inclusive, audacious initiatives and events, establishing a community of respect, open-mindedness, and a culture of unrestricted ideas.
4. New Ideas
Your community's culture of unrestricted ideas fosters a unique approach to collaborative thinking, leading to innovative questions and deeper intellectual exploration.
5. Assembles
Intellectual exploration promotes a growth mindset that transcends disciplinary boundaries within your community, leading to collaborative interdisciplinary thinking and making.
6. Solves
Collaborative interdisciplinary thinking and making supercharges your community to invent novel solutions that create value by every definition.
“My life has taught me that the most profound discoveries come when a creative community balances a little risk with thoughtful exploration and intentional design. Like blending new spices for an experimental dish — while risky, this calculated risk is essential for creating something unique and delicious.
Summer of 1980 painting with my brother and grandfather
I love to help everyone to be an audacious explorer of their own creativity.
I was raised by artists and activists known for their big ideas about art and society. It’s who I am to question, explore, and create community and culture. Attending art and design school (twice!), it was no surprise to anyone that I forged my own path both times, driven to redefine what art and creativity meant to me.
My creative journey has taken me in unexpected and diverse directions. I’ve founded five companies, each designed to celebrate and amplify everyone’s unique spark of creativity. As an educator, inventor, and leader, I have thrived at the intersection of art, community, and entrepreneurship, guiding transdisciplinary teams to build a supportive culture where bold risks are taken and transformed into meaningful, impactful projects.
"Sometimes, a winding road is the only way to reach your destination."My spirit of artful exploration and team-based problem-solving led me to become a community design strategist committed to uplifting everyone’s inherent creativity, fostering human connections, and weaving cultural threads by designing supportive initiatives and environments where diverse thinking and backgrounds combine to find big solutions.
Every day, I love helping people prioritize safety and inclusivity in community design so they can expand their creative potential and experience breakthroughs alongside others.
As a Community Design Strategist, I will work with you at the intersection of design, community engagement, and cultural innovation to create inclusive and equitable creative spaces that empower individuals and organizations. Together, we’ll explore community needs, facilitate collaborative processes, and design programs and initiatives that foster creativity through equity, ensuring they are culturally responsive and future-focused.
By integrating a transdisciplinary approach, we will develop programs, initiatives, and spaces that enable you and your organization to solve problems collaboratively and generate sustainable, innovative solutions. This work includes building strategic partnerships, implementing data-driven solutions, and advocating equitable access to resources and opportunities, ensuring you can authentically express yourself, innovate, and connect.
