About.
Co|Here Campus and Workplace provides consultation in space planning and activation. Our practical experience in space activation — its allocation, scheduling, and programming — gives us a perspective that is too often missing from the planning process.
This complete approach allows us to deliver more effective and sustainable planning recommendations in addition to explicit guidance on activation. Clients appreciate our ability to balance vision and viability when we scope and execute a project.
We conduct solo engagements and partner with design firms and other disciplines on campus master planning initiatives. As a small shop, we have the agility to take on projects that larger firms often pass up. If you have to be mindful of budget, want a smaller project or project segment completed, or need rapid mobilization and turnaround, we are eager to be your partner.
Chris Morett, PhD, MPP
President
Chris has taught at several universities and served as an administrator helping to plan and manage campus spaces. As a consultant, he has worked with organizations in academia and elsewhere to bring a pragmatic, data-informed approach to helping them get the most out of their space. That includes the fundamentals such as efficient utilization and planning, as well as efforts to activate space to support organizational priorities such as teaching innovation and the future of work.
He is the former president of the Higher Education Facilities Management Alliance and is currently a member of the Society for College and University Planning’s Mid-Atlantic Council. His writing has appeared in outlets including SCUP’s Planning in Higher Education Journal, The Teaching Professor, and Allwork.Space.
He is also the organizer of the Faculty Approachability Project, which helps colleges and universities design an institutional-level, broad-based strategy to encourage faculty approachability and faculty-student engagement. The project offers live and virtual workshops as well as open-source resources such as a toolkit and LinkedIn Live episodes.
Chris received his PhD in sociology and Master’s in Public Policy, where he concentrated in work, organizations, workplace flexibility policies, and how workplace culture promotes or hinders the usage of flexibility policies.