why Asthika Potuhera is building Animate...

Asthika Potuhera saw an opportunity to leverage Animate's skills into a global company...

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"yeah, I learned about Animate drinking coffee while overlooking a vacant site. Later, I found out we would be building a 60-story building on that site.

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Growing up in Sri Lanka and working as a manufacturing apprentice, specializing in process improvement, I had no idea it would lay the groundwork for future roles in planning and operational excellence. 

 

Eventually, and over many years, my cross-industry experience led to a diverse real estate portfolio, and now I use my experience from banking, finance, and process management to drive strategic and innovative solutions in real estate and infrastructure development."  

 

Animate provides developers and governments with leverage to shape environments for highly-mobile and well-connected populations. Modern life travels further, faster, more frequently than ever before. Transportation coordination radically influences the quality of the built environment. Animate’s tools increase the economic utility and cultural connectedness of people and place.

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Animate Spatial Studies developed:

• Kid Cities a mechanism for evolution of physical places

• infiniteTransit flyway a metropolis-wide transportation framework

• Urban Villages a community context for property development. 

These tools assist municipalities and large-scale developers to manage the evolution of their built environment and new infrastructure programs. 

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A changing world has compelled communities to compete against corporations in a size-dominated marketplace– with unrelated competitors in distant cities. Animate Tech~Life’s interaction tools contribute to healthy communities' natural strengths: interdependency, refining innovations, and sharing value.

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