services
spatial systems maps are an investment in your networks + impacts. these packages are designed to: align your visualizations with your core values; convey your mission; and provide easy access to shared understanding of ideas, data, and systems—in order to support the communities you serve.
concept package
for: change movements to provide access to understanding concepts.
value: clear shared understanding of your big idea expands buy in and supports decision making.
outcome: create access to clear understanding of your concept.
purpose package
for: networks to present data that is radically accessible, easily understood, and relational.
value: bridge gaps within networks and in external perception. clarify relationships, impacts, resources. powerful impact reporting.
outcome: visualizations that meaningfully connect your communities with your data.
systems package
for: networks to make complex systems change accessible.
value: reduce overwhelm and build shared clarity, trust, and congruent actions across networks.
outcome: convey relationships, leverage, interventions, and impacts.
package components
each package includes these following components:
∘ initial design studio: 1-2h. define content and approach.
∘ feedback loop studio: 1-2h. integrate draft feedback.
∘ spatial systems map package: 1 short video and 4 stills.
∘ instagram kit: 1 reel and 2-4 stills formatted for 3 posts
optional add-ons
you are able to add a combination of the following components to support your ongoing work:
∘ spatial systems map package for additional views.
∘ duplicate social media kit formatted per platform.
∘ ssm retainer (monthly strategy/design): ongoing mapping of systems, concepts, relationships, and impacts, as they develop.
how we work together
∘ discovery: we meet to discuss your values, challenges, goals.
∘ proposal & strategy: we propose a tailored scope of work + provide agreement.
∘ product is a license to a 3d visual map built with your data
∘ your network provides any necessary permissions for data to be built into map.
∘ creative development: iterative design process with feedback loops.
∘ visualization: final delivery of files and guidance for use.
ready to visualize your systems change?
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“I've had the opportunity to experience forest chaffee's work, and what stands out most is their rare ability to make complex systemic shifts feel both intuitive and deeply human.
In recent pieces on systemic investing and community land trusts, forest didn't just explain alternative models, they made visible the transition between paradigms. They bring people into that "third space" where we can move from conventional ways of thinking into more relational, systems-based understanding with clarity and care.
What is often abstract or difficult to grasp becomes embodied through their storytelling. They create access not only intellectually, but viscerally, which is exactly what is needed in this moment. Many people sense that current systems are no longer working, but lack the language or felt sense of what comes next. forest helps illuminate those pathways.
Their work supports a kind of remembering, reconnecting us to our innate capacity to think in systems and to engage with complexity in a grounded, meaningful way.
I'm grateful to be in this field of emergence alongside them and would highly recommend forest to anyone working at the intersection of systems change, storytelling, and regenerative futures.”
Marianne Wyne. Founder & Chief Operating Officer for ThePivot.Earth.