Our Vision

Design that honors land, people, and the stories between them.

DesignJones LLC is dedicated to ecology, culture, urban environments, and the celebration of community, history, and knowledge through creative planning, design, and innovative technology.

Capabilities

Capabilities that define the DesignJones approach.

Our work connects community engagement, environmental knowledge, preservation, planning, and cultural landscape design into places that are grounded, useful, and meaningful.

Community & Cultural Practice

Engagement, storytelling, and design rooted in cultural knowledge, community voice, and shared history.

Community Engagement African American Communities Diversity Multi-Media Expertise

Planning & Resilient Systems

Planning strategies that connect land use, water, infrastructure, and long-term community resilience.

Urban Design Site and Land Use Planning Water Management Planning and Design Sustainable Design and Resiliency

Memory & Preservation

Landscapes that honor memory, protect cultural places, and preserve meaningful histories in the built environment.

Memorial Landscapes Historical Preservation Environmental Landscape Preservation

Ecology & Planting Knowledge

Ecological design thinking grounded in native plant knowledge, stewardship, and environmental care.

Native Plant Knowledge Environmental Knowledge Landscape Stewardship

Design Ethos

Research, resilience, preservation, and community are central to the practice.

Our landscape architecture team at DesignJones LLC is adept at tying neighborhood empowerment, disaster recovery, innovative planning, and design solutions together.

We implement unique approaches to landscapes forged by intensive research in areas that include comprehensive water management, building resilient communities, preservation of the built environment, a wide range of planting strategies, and effective land use and planning.

Sustainability has been at the heart of our planning and design, particularly over the past eight years.

Aerial view of a designed landscape by DesignJones

Experience

Planning and design shaped by recovery, preservation, and community.

Both principals of DesignJones LLC have engaged in planning and design efforts related to the rebuild and recovery of the Lower Ninth Ward; cypress forest restoration in the Bayou Bienvenue Wetlands Triangle; the dismantling of the I-10 freeway and regeneration of Treme within the Claiborne Avenue Corridor; and the rebuilding and restoring of the Historic District in post-earthquake Jacmel, Haiti.