Firm Description

The Urban Conga is a Brooklyn, NY-based award-winning multidisciplinary design studio led by Ryan Swanson and Maeghann Coleman. The studio is focused on sparking community interaction and social activity through open-ended play. They achieve this by utilizing play methodologies as a critical tool implemented not just in their work itself but in the participatory design process in which the work is created. The studio explores the idea of working with communities to create more playable cities as an ecosystem of inclusive multiscale playable opportunities intertwined with our existing urban fabric.

Through this work, they have had opportunities to collaborate with local communities, NGOs, businesses, municipal agencies, and institutions worldwide, delivering multi-scaled urban interventions, playable products, workshops, lectures, development plans, and public policy recommendations.