ARCHOTUS is a design think-tank based in Washington DC and Berlin. Our work is informed by the milieu in which we operate, by our close relationships with human rights campaigners, public interest lawyers, environmental activists, and others attracted to these two world capitals to create change. We wish to leverage design to provoke thought and action. Our first order of business is to understand the things we are about to change. We look for the inherent value and latent potential in any place, object, building, situation, or idea; at our best we identify the unseen and offer the unexpected, collaborating across oceans and timezones on projects that challenge us and allow us to challenge norms of material and social culture. We also make nice houses.