About Outwith
Outwith Studio is a planning, design, and spatial strategy practice. We critically apply data analysis, community process, storytelling, and digital tooling to make better plans and community processes. We want to build new worlds for equity, autonomy, and fun, and we like to get messy in the space between the physical and digital.
Services
Master Planning
Housing Planning
Redevelopment Strategy
Community Engagement Processes
Design Strategy
Pop-up Design
Event Design
Mapping Platforms
Geospatial Analysis
Real Estate Financial Analysis
Graphic Storytelling
Civic Tech
Firm
Outwith Studio LLC is a LGBTQ-owned, Pennsylvania-based limited liability company.
Team
June McCartin
June is an urban planner, teacher, and researcher based in Philadelphia. She began her career in Baltimore City politics and policy, before turning to planning. She previously served as a planner and Director of Urban Design at Utile and as a housing planner at Boston’s regional planning association, MAPC. In these roles, she gained rich experience in comprehensive planning, housing policy, planning for public health, industrial land uses, scenario analysis, and community engagement (both IRL and virtual).
She has taught GIS for Architecture at Wentworth Institute of Technology and Community Practice at the Boston Architectural College, and she has lectured and reviewed student work at Northeastern, Harvard GSD, MassArt, and Vassar College. A former Fulbright scholar in Glasgow, she holds a BA in Urban Studies from Vassar and a Masters in Urban Planning from Harvard GSD.
Willy Mann
Willy is a design strategist based in Oakland. He was been telling stories, analyzing data, and designing experiences in various capacities for over a decade. Currently a workplace design strategist at Slack/Salesforce, he previously held workplace strategy roles in real estate (Newmark Knight Frank and Savills Studley) and performed design strategy in the architecture world (Vital/Nash Hurley and MK Think). Willy has immersed himself in industrial land use data, and previously held a research fellowship at SF Made and produced visual stories for the Cradle 2 Cradle Products Innovation Institute.
