We trust your eye.

Young people do not need titles to do important work. You already see what the rest of us miss.

Urbanframe is a field studio for teens. Through collaborative fieldwork in community environments, students apply their unique perspectives to big problems: reading what is happening, decoding the forces at work, and surfacing the insights that point toward solutions experts have missed.

2026 Theme...

Visible Cities

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

— Marcel Proust

For 2026, we focus on the innovation opportunities hiding in contemporary cities.

Instead of seeing problems, teams will learn to identify the forces that actually shape how we live: tribes of trust, seed of trends, unspoken rules, invisible desires, avoidable frictions, silent transactions, and more.

We want your perspective and imagination.

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