Designing
infrastructure
that advances
health &
well-being

Grounded in lived experience.
Backed by evidence & operational excellence.
Proven in practice.

01/05

Efforts to improve health often focus on solutions. We focus on people. And design services, systems, spaces & technologies alongside those who use and deliver them. Because outcomes don't change unless people do. And people need infrastructure to help them understand and navigate change.

02/05

By integrating science, lived experience, and operational innovation throughout the design process, we help organizations:

Discover what drives behaviors, operations and outcomes

Create infrastructure people understand, trust and use

Optimize infrastructure as conditions evolve

Build the capacity to learn, unlearn and innovate

03/05

When services, systems, spaces, and technologies are designed to support people through change, progress compounds.

Capacities expand

Insight becomes action

Outcomes improve

Capacities expand

Insight becomes action

Outcomes improve

04/05

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Public Works.

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Collaborate with us.

Join our team.

Stay in the loop.

©2026

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We transformed a clinically valid digital cognitive assessment into a commercially viable tool for the early detection of mild cognitive impairment in doctors' offices and homes across the U.S.

Close-up of doctor’s hand touching patient’s hand while holding cognitive assessment.

Transforming cognitive assessments. Strengthening Alzheimer's care.

We analyzed workflows across North America. Then, designed strategies that reduced friction, enhanced experiences, and improved operational visibility—recovering $2.5M in annual capacity without reducing staff or increasing workload.

Frontline assisted living team member smiles and puts their arm around a resident as they walk to breakfast..

Streamlining operations. Elevating experiences and capacity.

We redesigned how cognitive assessment results are experienced and understood—reducing emotional burden, improving interpretation, and supporting proactive brain health monitoring.

Older couple reviews the redesigned Cognigram report with simplified visuals of cognitive data, clear summaries, and an easy-to-use mobile app.

Humanizing data. Advancing early detection of mild cognitive impairment.

We guided the development of an integrated care model that translates science, lived experience, and operational realities into services, systems, and spaces for children with complex needs and their families across a new $220M hospital.

Rendering of a pediatric hospital atrium featuring a multi-story ramp and integrated care model designed to support children with complex needs and their families.

Building a coordinated care model. Expanding care for the whole family.

We designed an 8-month learning experience that helped teams at one of the largest insurance companies in the U.S. better understand the people they serve and create more responsive services, systems, spaces, and technologies.

CX & UX team membe gather around a table during a hands-on human-centered strategic design workshop facilitated by Public Works Collaborative.

Expanding human-centered innovation. Rebuilding trust.

We built a sonification system that turned groundwater data into a participatory model for environmental monitoring and protection—including remote monitoring stations, a public art installation, and an educational outreach program.

Two young children in park play with a large green pipe that emerges from the grass–part of an interactive public art installation built by Public Works Collaborative.

Sonifying data. Expanding groundwater protection.

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Their
innovative
approach transformed
the product experience
and made it an essential tool
for primary care physicians
and patients.
Brad O'Connor
Cogstate

With their
expanded
understanding
of the built
environment,
they designed
a system of experiences
that are exceptionally
responsive
to the human
psyche.
Ersela Kripa
Agency
Architecture

We can
always count
on them for
their strategic
visioning
and creative
problem-
solving.
Emma Raynes
Magnum
Foundation

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5

Designing
infrastructure
that advances
health &
well-being

Grounded in lived experience.
Backed by evidence & operational excellence. Proven in practice.

Efforts to improve health often focus on solutions. We focus on people. And design services, systems, spaces & technologies alongside those who use and deliver them. Because outcomes don't change unless people do. And people need infrastructure to help them understand and navigate change.


Building a coordinated care model. Expanding care for the whole family.

Rendering of a pediatric hospital atrium featuring a multi-story ramp and integrated care model designed to support children with complex needs and their families.

Expanding human-centered innovation. Rebuilding trust.

CX & UX team membe gather around a table during a hands-on human-centered strategic design workshop facilitated by Public Works Collaborative.

By integrating science, lived experience, and operational innovation throughout the design process, we help organizations:

Discover what drives behaviors, operations and outcomes

Create infrastructure people understand, trust and use

Optimize infrastructure as conditions evolve

Build the capacity to learn, unlearn and innovate

Their
innovative
approach transformed
the product experience
and made it
an essential tool for primary care physicians
and patients.
Brad O'Connor
Cogstate

With their
expanded
understanding
of the built
environment,
they designed
a system of experiences
that are exceptionally
responsive
to the human
psyche.
Ersela Kripa
Agency
Architecture

We can
always count
on them for
their strategic
visioning
and creative
problem-
solving.
Emma Raynes
Magnum
Foundation

When services, systems, spaces, and technologies are designed to support people through change, progress compounds.

Capacities expand

Insight becomes action

Outcomes improve

Contact us.

Collaborate with us.

Join our team.

Stay in the loop.

©2026

NOW IN :

Transforming cognitive assessments. Strengthening Alzheimer's care.

Close-up of doctor’s hand touching patient’s hand while holding cognitive assessment.

Streamlining operations. Elevating experiences and capacity.

Frontline assisted living team member smiles and puts their arm around a resident as they walk to breakfast..

Expanding human-centered innovation. Rebuilding trust.

CX & UX team membe gather around a table during a hands-on human-centered strategic design workshop facilitated by Public Works Collaborative.

Sonifying data. Expanding groundwater protection.

Two young children in park play with a large green pipe that emerges from the grass–part of an interactive public art installation built by Public Works Collaborative.

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