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Solutions

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MKThink’s mission is to create intelligent places by focusing on 5 key areas: community strength, healthy environments, learning outcomes, systems optimization, and edge resilience. Leveraging decades of experience, client insights, and global trends, MKThink addresses today’s critical issues with a forward-thinking approach, ensuring meaningful impacts on both people and their environments for the next 25 years and beyond.

Solutions Through MKThink's Design Philosophy

Lagom Ar Bast, a guiding philosophy at MKThink, translates from Swedish as “Enough is as good as a feast.” This approach emphasizes simplicity in problem-solving, focusing on finding the most effective and efficient solutions. By integrating building practices with technology and policy, MKThink aligns with Lagom to innovate beyond just building more, striving for solutions that balance practicality with strategic foresight.

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Solutions Defined

Community Strength

Community Strength focuses on the value created when people gather in physical spaces, harnessing the power of community to achieve more than what individuals can accomplish alone

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Healthy Places

Healthy Places are environments designed to enhance physical and mental health, promoting overall well-being for occupants through thoughtfully crafted surroundings. 

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Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes explores how environments can enhance learning, applicable to any space where knowledge transfer occurs, from schools to commercial settings. 

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Systems Optimization

System Optimization involves the enhancement of large-scale operations—like campuses or networks—ensuring they align with goals, enhance outcomes, and maximize resource use. 

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Edge Resilience

Edge Resilience address sustainability, resilience, and safety at the intersections of diverse environments, cultures, and technologies, tackling challenges in both physical and conceptual edge spaces. 

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