\ WHAT WE DO

Founded in San Francisco, Backslash Urban Studio is a multi-disciplinary studio providing Design services. We collaborate across multiple studios to provide fluid and cohesive consulting to all communities, partners, and collaborators that we work with. We provide innovative design solutions and policy recommendations focused on creating memorable experiences for the people that are impacted. Our studio believes in enhancing the built environment and developing relationships by creating energy, identity, and value for all of our clients. We provide and are not limited to the following services:

  • Conceptual Design 

  • Space and Programmatic Planning 

  • Comprehensive City Plan Development

  • Public Space Improvement

  • Graphic and Visual Representations

  • Identity Branding 

  • GIS, Tabulation, and Data Research 

  • Community Engagement Workshops

  • Redevelopment City Strategy

\ MISSION

Social Design is our passion and we strive to improve and impact communities in positive ways by collaborating with clients, communities, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and stakeholders that are aligned with our mission to advance equity.

\ PHILOSOPHY

Backslash Urban Studio is an interdisciplinary Design Firm. We cultivate innovation through a collaborative and creative process. As a Minority Owned Collective (MOC), our priority is to bring our distinctive experiences and devotion for cultural empathy into valuable design solutions. We collaborate with communities and organizations to cut through the complexity that bars them from imagining and creating the places they want. Our goal is to amplify the voices of the communities we serve to help them create healthy, resilient places that are responsive to their needs and can adapt and grow with the community.

\ WORK CULTURE

Work culture at \BACKSLASH is to work hard and play hard. We truly believe in cultivating a positive work environment that organically allows for team members to build comradery amongst each other in order to achieve great outcomes for the work we produce. Growth of all team members within \BACKSLASH is essential to our work culture.