Haven

Large outdoor poster installation featuring colorful “HAVEN” community and resilience campaign graphics with photos of people gathered together.

Close-up of a smartphone home screen showing the Haven app icon beside Google Chrome and Instagram icons.

Bold typographic graphic reading “JOIN THE RESIlIENCE WITH HAVEN” in lavender text on a bright orange background.

Crowded coffee shop interior with an orange promotional sign offering a special coffee discount and QR code displayed near the counter.

By Elena Mehlman

Elena Mehlman is a NYC based designer, drawn to projects rooted in social impact, community, and culture. Her creative practice is influenced by art in all its forms, as she approaches every project as an opportunity to merge strategy, aesthetics, and cultural relevance into one cohesive system.

HAVEN is a neighborhood-based resilience platform for urban residents who want to feel more connected to the people around them. It exists to make vulnerable neighborhoods stronger before they need to be. HAVEN reframes preparedness as participation, turning proximity into community, and community into infrastructure.