Arcana Services
Research Activation Studio
At Arcana, we partner with researchers, community organizations, and institutions to transform research into living knowledge systems that people can actually access, use, and trust—research that connects with communities, shapes policy, sparks discussions, and changes conversations.
As your creative partner, we help you strategize, build capacity, and collaborate to bring your findings to life with tangible impact in the communities they’re meant to serve, ensuring your work is ethical, accessible, and designed for the real world.
Transform your research into a living knowledge ecosystem
Arcana supports research across the full lifecycle, from early-stage project design to long-term knowledge systems.
Our work is organized across three integrated pillars:
Co-Creation & Research Foundations
Core Research & KT Outputs
Research Longevity & Story Systems
Co-Creation & Research Foundations
Build the conditions for meaningful knowledge translation.
We work with research teams and community advisory boards as collaborators to develop shared frameworks, language, and practices. Through workshops, we help facilitate the strenghtening of internal capacity for teams and communities to translate knowledge over time.
View Our Workshops
Each workshop can be engaged as a standalone session or as part of a sequential process that takes you from initial alignment through to production planning.
This is a good fit for teams who want to:
- Embed community engagement from the start
- Clarify audiences and use-cases
- Strengthen internal KT capacity
- Align community needs with dissemination goals
Services include:
- Facilitated co-design workshops
- Participatory KT strategy development
- Audience mapping and use-case design
- Capacity-building sessions on KT methods and storytelling
Core Research & KT Outputs
Turn research into accessible, public-facing knowledge products.
This service area focuses on designing and producing high-quality KT outputs tailored to your project and audiences. Teams can enter through any format and move across multiple over time.
This is a good fit for teams who want to:
- Share research with community, policy, and public audiences
- Meet funder and reporting requirements
- Translate complex findings into accessible formats
- Use creative and digital approaches to dissemination
Services include any creative output you might dream up, including:
Research Longevity & Story Systems
Build research programs that last.
This service area supports teams who are thinking beyond a single project or funding cycle and want to build long-term visibility, coherence, and impact.
We help teams develop the narrative and digital infrastructure that allows research to exist consistently in the world.
Research Story Systems
A strategic foundation for long-term research communication.
Services include:
- Research brand identity
- Narrative positioning and story strategy
- Core messaging and language guide
- Audience segmentation
- Theory of change for KT
- Editorial and content strategy
Digital Infrastructure for KT
Build the home for your research.
We design and develop:
- Research program websites
- Digital knowledge hubs
- Project microsites
- Interactive archives
- Resource libraries
Ready to give your research a life beyond the PDF?
Let’s talk about how your findings can reach the communities
they’re meant to serve.