About
About
We take cities personally. Malovey Labs works at the intersection of urbanism, art, culture, and technology.
The graffiti that goes up overnight. The storefronts holding a street together. The corner everyone calls by a name no map uses. None of it gets written down, and most of it is gone before anyone gets around to it. Someone has to keep that record, and it has to live somewhere the public can actually reach. That's the work.
In practice that means maps, registries, archives, and the data work underneath them. We build with business improvement districts, cultural institutions, tourism boards, and architecture firms, usually on-site, usually alongside teams carrying more ambition than budget. We keep the team small because the best work comes from people with something at stake.
We built Ottawalls, a bilingual street-art archive, from scratch. Institutions across Ottawa adopted it with no marketing budget, and the work was covered by CBC and the local press. The index is the public record of everything since.
Background
- Work
- Ten years in technology at Shopify and SurveyMonkey, currently at a Y Combinator-backed startup. Malovey Labs is the independent practice alongside it.
- Focus
- Civic software, built on-site with the teams who use it: large datasets, transit and cycling infrastructure, street art and public art archives, and cultural placemaking.
- Based in
- Ottawa, Canada.
- Regions
- Canada and the EU. Dual Canadian and Croatian citizenship.
Shopify and 
SurveyMonkey, currently at a Y Combinator-backed startup. Malovey Labs is the independent practice alongside it.Let's chat about
- 01civic and cultural technology
- 02architecture firms and studios
- 03community infrastructure tools
- 04large civic datasets and mapping
- 05transit systems and cycling infrastructure
- 06urban documentation
- 07public and street art archiving
- 08business improvement areas and main streets
- 09neighbourhood placemaking and wayfinding
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