Hyphae Design Laboratory applies a systems-level approach to designing biotechnology solutions, specializing in urban planning applications. The firm works with environmental, social, and economic dynamics of cities through urban planning, prototyping, community participation and policy work to shape urban systems to be more environmentally just, more humane and livable, and more economically grounded in valuations based on the fundamental realities of earth systems and science. Hyphae works in a variety of design and consulting capacities, with projects ranging from a partnership to create a net-zero distillery with Belcampo, a California-based food company that focuses on vertically integrated sustainable food production, to delivering an integrated multi-prong strategy to maintaining sanitation services to the people of Berkeley. The firm pursue s a wide-variety of projects, but the underlying process and ethos is focused on achieving sustainability through systems-level thinking.
