Expertise Projects Ideas About News Careers Research Our Purpose Our Programs Our Experts Our Investigations Inform radical solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. Our research uncovers new insights by investigating the trends and data behind our shared global challenges. From the climate crisis to a shift towards urbanization, the places in which we live, work and play must meet a new set of imperatives. We believe an insights-driven, human-centric approach elevates design to solve complex challenges in an increasingly interconnected world. Rising to this opportunity, we have launched CallisonRTKL Research. A team focused on developing solutions that can quantifiably and positively impact our behaviors, our businesses and our cities. Check Up While You Fill Up How can the use of telemedicine in underserved communities improve access to high-quality specialized care? Read More A Case for Disruptive Innovation Here are three strategies to create disruptive innovation in your organization. Read More CallisonRTKL Research Fellows: Our Global Brain Trust Our Fellows are selected to drive regional impact by supporting, inspiring and guiding research efforts in their local markets. Read More CRTKL Doubles Down on Research We highlight the importance of investing in architectural and design research in 2020. Read More Ten Principles of Resilient Cities Resiliency in Planning and Urban Design Read More How COVID is Reshaping the Cultural Space Our firsthand experience assisting the National Museums with several major renovation projects during the pandemic. Read More Happiness – Now More Than Ever A primer on Happiness By Design and why it matters — by Katie Sprague Read More 2020 Sustainability Report Shaping a better world through performance–driven design. Read More Front Lines of Crisis Resiliency To protect the health, safety and welfare of people. Read More Field Guide For Virtual Collaboration An effective primer with strategies to foster virtual collaboration. Read More Mall Resilience in a Time of Viral Events Leaders in Hong Kong rethink shopping in the age of pandemics. Read More Hotel to Acute Care How to reposition a hotel from luxury to acute care. Read More Our Programs: Innovation Ecosystem CallisonRTKL Research builds upon decades of innovative ideas by formalizing and building a platform for investigation. Our research programs and activities are not siloed. Rather, they are an ecosystem of ideas, hunches and thoughtful investigations. We foster research and forward-thinking design solutions that are directly applied to our work. Our research programs allow for an open innovation process. Ideas can come from anywhere across our organization and are matched with the resources and scale they need to reach their full potential. A collaborative platform that crowd-sources ideas from across the firm, improving the way we work. A flexible platform for problem-solving, strategizing or innovating around complex issues with industry partners and clients within a short, sprint time-frame. A program that fosters new knowledge by funding focused research investigations across the globe. Microgrant Series View 2021 Microgrant Projects View 2021 Microgrant External Jury View 2020 Microgrant Projects View 2020 Microgrant External Jury Our Experts: Global Research Fellows The Global Research Fellowship expands the expertise and network of our people contributing to research across the globe. Our Fellows are appointed to drive regional impact by supporting, inspiring and guiding research efforts in their local markets. Interested in starting a conversation with your local Research Fellow? Contact them at research@crtkl.com Chris Xu Senior Staff APAC Ekaterina Dziadkovskaia Senior Designer UK/London Apoorva Alankar Associate Middle East Rachel Foster Senior Designer Chicago Velma Jackman Associate Vice President Dallas Brian A Cravens Associate Vice President Los Angeles Joel Camden Associate Miami/Mexico City Christopher Steinberg Senior Designer DC/Baltimore Sahil Dagli Senior Designer New York Ning Wang Associate Seattle Our Investigations We are hard at work delivering innovative design solutions, while strategically building a formal engine for research and innovation. This requires the partnership of business strategy, collaborative opportunities and rigorous investigations. We are broadly focused on the world’s most pressing challenges. Defining insights for questions around: Value of Wellbeing: How can design measurably contribute towards positive health outcomes across spaces we live, work and play? Human-centric Design: How might we optimize our design process to empathize, understand and adapt to the changing needs of users? Resiliency: How can building re-use and adaption strategies respond to rapidly changing urban space uses post-COVID? Technology & Mobility: How can technology and mobility enhance a seamless human experience? We invite clients and collaborators to help us explore future solutions to topics we are currently focused on. Select in-progress applied research includes: Impact Analysis Study: Quantifying the economic, social and environmental impacts our projects have on communities. Deconstruction and Reuse: Understanding how we can be facilitators of waste diversion with a purpose. Spatial Metrics Study: Utilizing computational design and sensor monitoring technology to quantify our design decisions post-occupancy. Healthcare Surge Study: Investigating the impact of patient surges on individual healthcare organizations and how the built environment can be optimized to cope. Contact Us We invite clients and collaborators to help us explore future solutions with us. Contact us at research@crtkl.com. Contact Locations Careers Legal Compliance Privacy An Arcadis Company © 2021 CallisonRTKL