What We Do
We work in the urban and transportation space, helping communities, companies, organizations, and cities design and visualize more equitable and sustainable urban futures.
Enea Sernesi
Design and Research
Enea Sernesi is a generalist designer and researcher grounded in design justice and contextual practices. With a background in industrial design, and strong foundations of research and public-oriented strategy, he’s work focuses on approaches that center lived experience, local histories, and collective futures.
He has worked with a diverse range of organizations—including the California Department of Transportation, Blue Zones, ArtCenter College of Design, Italdesign, and several companies in the technology sector as a strategy and design consultant, contributing to initiatives across product innovation, service design, and mobility/urban design.
Enea holds an M.S. in Transportation Systems and Design from ArtCenter College of Design and a B.A. in Industrial Design in Transportation from I.A.A.D. in Turin.
Anshdeep Malhotra
Design, Research and Business Strategy
Driven by the triangulation of design, business and technical background Anshdeep blends top-down and bottom-up approach transforming the ways we envision mobilities and urban spaces. As an active pedestrian, cyclist and public transit user, his works merges creative practice with strategy and planning.
His multidisciplinary skill set is the result of his experience at Ernst and Young as a consultant for technology companies, working in academia at ArtCenter College of Design, combined with M.S. in Transportation Systems and Design from ArtCenter College of Design, M.B.A. and B.E. from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India
Nick Polyzoides
Design and Photography
Raised by New Urbanist Architects, Nick is an urban designer dedicated to building the next generation of beautiful, walkable communities in the United States. He is committed to the Gehlian design philosophy of human scales in urban spaces, community focused design solutions, and building urban equity through design. He integrates his background in documentary photography in his current work building visual narratives.
Nick has an M.S. in Transportation Systems and Design from ArtCenter College of Design and a B.A. in Art and Documentary Photography from Syracuse University.
Selected Works
These are snippets and vignetes of the diverse range of work that we have developed for
Reimagining LA Freeway Transport
Concept and Visualization
Contributed with Caltrans to the early development of a visionary project aimed at transforming Los Angeles’ freeway system into a more sustainable, accessible, and community-oriented infrastructure. Designed multi-use spaces and transit stations that integrate with surrounding neighborhoods, promote local economies, and ensure equitable access to transit.
Complete Street Design
Early Concept and Visualization
Developed concept design and visualization for a vital urban corridor reimagined as a people-centered street. The plan promotes walkability and active mobility through slow-speed zones, safe midblock crossings, park-assist lanes, landscaped medians, and roundabouts that calm traffic and enhance connectivity.
Designing for Multimodality in J Line Stations
Early Concept and Visualization
Redesigned and visualized Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) stations along the Harbor Freeway in Los Angeles, focusing on improving last-mile connectivity through enhanced multimodal access and integration with surrounding urban infrastructure.
Long Beach Mobility Vision
Concept and Planning
Developed the mobility vision for the city of Long Beach, California for 2045, with a focus on community building, sustainability, and equity through transformation of the port as well as building mobility hubs integrating slow, medium and fast mobility
Los Angeles Mobility Vision
Concept and Visualization
Designed a car-free future for Los Angeles through a speculative mobility plan that rethinks the city’s transportation paradigm. Produced immersive visualizations of futuristic mobility devices and infrastructure to provoke reflection on the present by imagining a city no longer governed by car-centric logic.
Mapping Memories, Imagining Futures: [Re]thinking Lincoln Heights
Visualization
Organized and facilitated a series of speculative and critical futures workshops with longtime residents of Lincoln Heights (CA). Through creative activities centered on access to public space and freedom of movement, residents imagined empowered, community-driven futures beyond displacement.
Bridging Mobility and Urban Design Education
Facilitation and Design
Conducted research and developed an illustrated report analyzing how mobility and mobility strategies are underrepresented in traditional architecture and urban design programs. Synthesized findings into an actionable education plan proposing a series of Mobility Systems workshops integrated into graduate design curricula.
California Green Transition
Visualization
Visualized strategies and timeline to achieve the California Energy Commission target of 100% renewable energy by 2045
A Move Away from Plastics
Visualization
Developed strategies and a revised timeline to achieve the sustainability goals for the European Union region through reduction and/or elimination of the use of plastic products
Discovering Autonomy amidst Surveillance Capitalism
Research
Workshop building the necessary critical reflection through personal experience on how we navigate a highly surveilled environment, often oblivious of its dubious nature.
The Commodification of the Future: Designed Social Imaginaries
Research
Illustrated Mobility Studies research project which examines how design and techno-futurist narratives in urban design shape social imaginaries in ways that reinforce social spatial inequality.
Expanding Mobility Frameworks in Planning
Facilitation and Design
Organized co-creation workshops with graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Notre Dame to embed mobility theory and strategies into their design projects, validating the potential of mobility-centered frameworks in planning practice.
