Based in Traverse City Michigan and available worldwide – Influence Design Forum (IDF) is a collaboration of professionals exploring the seams that make up the ecological and social context of landscape, art, pop culture, and the built environment. We work at many different spatial scales - We design public spaces, prepare cities for the future, celebrate rural landscapes, inject art into the landscape, design dwellings and insert creativity to retail and storefronts, explore intimate spaces, and imagine new possibilities by testing design ideas.Our unconventional project teams bring our clients together with a diverse group of designers, planners, artists, scientists, engineers, and policy makers to problem solve, innovate, and research new ideas for the future. Part think-tank, part creative agency, we like to think of ourselves as visionaries who think systematically how design works - From the importance of building a strong identity to support a brand to understanding social behaviors of public spaces to the workplace and back home again, transportation, rural landscapes, and entire neighborhoods

We are a shared community workspace with desks available to rent by the day, week, or month.Located just a few doors down from Brew on the 2nd Floor above Green Island. Daily rates starting as low as $10/ day. Stop by and get to work! Members get 24/7 access, otherwise we are open daily Monday-Friday 8am-5pm.

Working together with the Arts Commission in the interest of furthering their goals and making a bigger impact on the community. Responsible for fund development efforts, leading the planning process for public events held by the Arts Commission, attracting and launching traveling and temporary art installations and advising and developing proposals brought forward to the Arts Commission.