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Meg Kalinowski, AIA, is a New York City-based registered architect, Co-Founder + Design Director of Collective | Collective, educator, and collaborative leader with experience across various creative sectors, leadership roles, within projects both locally and internationally. With over 15 years of experience in strategy and design services on award-winning projects, Meg has collaborated on innovative solutions in architecture, urban design, development + asset repositioning, workshops + events, and retail + brand design. Working closely with clients to provide bespoke design services, including strategic visioning, programming, and collaboration on actionable project goals that may result in a building design to co-authored academic paper. Identifying the intersection of research, strategy, and design, Meg has held teaching positions at The City College of New York, Spitzer School of Architecture, Rutgers University, Bloustein School of Planning and Policy; with her current position as Visiting Faculty at the Pratt School of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York since 2022. Mutual Aid and Volunteer participation spans from Urban Design Forum Lifelong Forefront Fellow (2024-2025), NYC DEP Raingarden Steward in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn to Food + Waste Management with Grow NYC since 2020. With a background in sustainable urban systems research, stakeholder workshops, design investigations, and international project completion, Meg collaborates on creative, conscientious, and effective solutions for project stakeholders.The Collective | Collective is a collaborative, multi-disciplinary design studio located in Brooklyn, NY and Co-Founded by Design Director Meg Kalinowski, AIA. We function as a dynamic practice engaging with public and private collaborators at home in New York City and beyond. We are staunch advocates of local action and champion causes that forge closer bonds between the city, its inhabitants and the natural and built systems we must care for and live within. From being a Rain Garden Steward in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn with the NYC Department of Environmental Protection, to working within a diverse cohort on aging communities in New York City as a Urban Design Forum ‘Lifelong’ Forefront Fellow in partnership with the NYC Housing Preservation and Development, the studio strives for multi-scalar projects which leverage design thinking across disciplines.
Our private client work spans across Design Strategy + Storytelling for a recent Lucas Museum of Narrative Art RFQ submission, to on-going Research and Education from the urban to architectural as visiting faculty at Pratt School of Architecture. Our on-going architectural work includes an Aging In Place Housing Curation, Renovation + Addition near Philadelphia, PA.
With a focus on the living and built environments, The Collective | Collective merges research, discourse, and design exploration to address diverse challenges from the way we connect with each other and our environments to increasingly complex socio-economical and socio-ecological challenges at the city and regional levels. Our collaborative practice embraces each new project with curiosity, and continuously evolves through our diverse, multi-disciplined partnerships with community stakeholders. We are excited to connect with you on your next project to build a collective, design-oriented think tank with actionable goals from micro to macro-level factors.
The Collective | Collective.