weareMIXD
Who looks after a street
once it is built?
weareMIXD is a place management practice based in Singapore. We take on a street, a precinct or a cluster of buildings and run it with the people who own and use it, month after month. We report what changes: the hours it stays alive, the reasons people come back, the mix of people who stay.
Our method is the Experience Improvement District, XID, first set out in a peer-reviewed study of Singapore's pilot business improvement district scheme.
XID pilots are under way with Better Place Foundation in Mumbai and Remixd CIC in Ramsgate.
Anyone can build space. We work on what it feels like to be there.
Tell us about the place you want to bring aliveWe stay long enough for the trees to grow.
We report on what changed, not on what we did.
We work wherever people are still hopeful about the future of urban life.
Why it matters
Cities are good at giving people something to do. They are far less certain about how it feels to be there.
A new district that people only pass through. An office quarter that empties by evening. A beautiful stretch of ground that is awake for a few hours a day and asleep for the rest.
Culture, nature and community are what keep a place awake. Give a place more reasons to be lived in, and it gives far more back.
How it works
Not a report that sits on a shelf. A keeper who stays.
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A place wants more
Owners, businesses or a district group want their place to do better.
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They appoint us
One agreement, a clear boundary, steady yearly funding.
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We look after it
We bring the people, the improvements and the programme together.
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We report what changed
How it feels, what was resolved, who came, what grew.
Who appoints us
A single owner of a building or a cluster. Or the owners and businesses who share a district and want one keeper for it.
Our method
XID, the Experience Improvement District. A way to understand a place, plan for it, measure it and make it better, month after month.
The work continues every month.
What we look after
The place, every day
Walks, small repairs, the right people called. The ordinary care that keeps a place in good order.
The people who share it
Owners, businesses and neighbours brought to one table, with one keeper answerable to them.
Reasons to return
Improvements, programmes and public art, tried small, kept when they work.
An honest account
A yearly plan, a monthly report, and a clear record of how the place has changed.
Selected work
On the ground since 2022
Placemaking strategy and district programming across five hundred restored acres on the edge of Jaipur.
DhunEvery place deserves a keeper.
If you hold a place, or share one with neighbours, and want it looked after with imagination and care, tell us about it.
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