A better way to design places together

Open Space Sandbox is an interactive map-based tool that helps communities share ideas, give feedback, and shape the future of the places around them.
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Our Why

We believe community input should be easier to give, easier to understand, and more useful in shaping real decisions.

A lot of planning processes still rely on long surveys, public meetings, or boards on the wall. Those tools can be hard to respond to, and they do not always make it easy for people to show what they want or where they want it. We built Open Space Sandbox to make community input more visual, interactive, and easy to understand. Instead of only collecting general comments, Open Space Sandbox helps people place ideas on a map, respond to specific locations, and share what matters most to them. That gives project teams clearer feedback they can actually use.
At its core, this is about access, agency, and joy. We want to spark conversations, shift power, and help communities imagine what’s possible together.

Meet our team

Hayley Oleksiak
Chief Executive Officer
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Theo Goetemann
Chief Operating Officer
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Uros Randelovic
Chief Technical Officer
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Clairissa Chin
Creative Director
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Hayley Oleksiak, CEO
"One might use Open Space Sandbox to re-energize underutilized spaces around town, or to design a crowd-pleasing temporary pop-up event in a public square. If it sounds like a real-life application of SimCity, well, it kind of is."
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