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VALUES
VALUES
Design Values
Design Values
Our work is driven by our shared values.
Our work is driven by our shared values.
We want to be resourceful, working within real-world scenarios towards impact at scale. We don't sweat the small stuff.
Our work aims to be balanced — built environment and people within living systems and Country. We engage with leaders who care.
To be equitable means design that creates value for community now and in the future. Purpose and profit can coexist.
We want to be resourceful, working within real-world scenarios towards impact at scale. We don't sweat the small stuff.
Our work aims to be balanced — built environment and people within living systems and Country. We engage with leaders who care.
To be equitable means design that creates value for community now and in the future. Purpose and profit can coexist.
Services
Services
Design for
impact at scale
Design for impact at scale
Macro Design Strategies
Macro Design Strategies
Design strategies help set a trajectory. Our focus is on the regenerative, innovative and materials-led potential of each project. We collaborate with technical consultants and construction industry to verify and inform urban, development, design and material innovation — macro to micro.
Design strategies help set a trajectory. Our focus is on the regenerative, innovative and materials-led potential of each project. We collaborate with technical consultants and construction industry to verify and inform urban, development, design and material innovation — macro to micro.
Industrial Design Systems
Industrial Design Systems
We develop design systems for the built environment that enable regenerative approaches, material reuse and spaces that are able to adapt over time. We engage with experts in design, fabrication and material technologies.
We develop design systems for the built environment that enable regenerative approaches, material reuse and spaces that are able to adapt over time. We engage with experts in design, fabrication and material technologies.
Human Scale Environments
Human Scale Environments
Although we work at many scales, we are finely attuned to how people experience the built environment on a human level, in relationship with living and material flows.
Although we work at many scales, we are finely attuned to how people experience the built environment on a human level, in relationship with living and material flows.
Research and Development
Research and Development
We research urban, building and material intelligence to consider new methods and models. Material circularity must respond to resource, cultural and technology shifts over time. This is not just about disassembly but also designing to adapt to future contexts.
We research urban, building and material intelligence to consider new methods and models. Material circularity must respond to resource, cultural and technology shifts over time. This is not just about disassembly but also designing to adapt to future contexts.
TRANSDISCIPLINARY
TRANSDISCIPLINARY
Collective
expertise
Collective expertise
Impact happens when specific knowledge and perspectives are brought together. Our model is based on the relationships between collective expertise, and we operate as a distributed group, outside of the traditional fixed team environment.
Relative's founder Dhiren Das has 20+ years experience across strategic, built environment and industrial design disciplines. He convenes agile team members around each project challenge, working across strategy, urban, material and industrial design as an integrated workflow.
We collaborate with clients, design partners and construction industry to find pathways to material circularity. This work is built on our shared purpose. We engage in whole-of-project thinking — working upstream to frame what is possible with project teams, and downstream to explore circular fabrication and design integration with industry.
Impact happens when specific knowledge and perspectives are brought together. Our model is based on the relationships between collective expertise, and we operate as a distributed group, outside of the traditional fixed team environment.
Relative's founder Dhiren Das has 20+ years experience across strategic, built environment and industrial design disciplines. He convenes agile team members around each project challenge, working across strategy, urban, material and industrial design as an integrated workflow.
We collaborate with clients, design partners and construction industry to find pathways to material circularity. This work is built on our shared purpose. We engage in whole-of-project thinking — working upstream to frame what is possible with project teams, and downstream to explore circular fabrication and design integration with industry.
Design Strategy Partners
Design Strategy Partners
Design Strategy Partners
Design & Urban Strategy
Regenerative Innovation
Materials-led Feasibility
Design & Urban Strategy
Regenerative Innovation
Materials-led Feasibility
Design Systems Partners
Design Systems Partners
Design Systems Partners
Industrial Design
Design for Reuse Feasibility
Architectural & Spatial Design
Design Innovation Research
Materials R&D
Industrial Design
Design for Reuse Feasibility
Architectural & Spatial Design
Design Innovation Research
Materials R&D
© Relative Systems
On Wurundjeri Lands — Melbourne
84 Rupert Street Collingwood VIC
On Gadigal Lands — Sydney
Level 4, 180 George Street Sydney NSW
© Relative Systems
On Wurundjeri Lands — Melbourne
84 Rupert Street Collingwood VIC
On Gadigal Lands — Sydney
Level 4, 180 George Street Sydney NSW
© Relative Systems
On Wurundjeri Lands — Melbourne
84 Rupert Street Collingwood VIC
On Gadigal Lands — Sydney
Level 4, 180 George Street Sydney NSW