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February 26, 2000, a workshop was held for residents, students staff and
faculty in order for the participants in the project to get to know and
trust each other and to gather as much information as possible about the
changes that residents would like to see happen in their neighborhood.
Student, Staff and faculty served
as facilitators while the main role of residents were to provide information
and produce the outcomes of the different agenda items.
Only a small fraction of the residents
of the 21 Blocks actually showed up to the meeting. However, we were still
able to gather a lot of information and impressions from them. Overall,
the meeting was a success.
See also Weekend Workshop Process
under Process.
In the following the agenda and
the "tools" used for the workshop are presented.
Meeting
Agenda
At the meeting, we gave a PowerPoint
presentation to start out and to illustrate that we had been doing research
prior to the meeting.
Secondly we did a Cognitive
Mapping Exercise, where residents complied important information about
their neighborhood on maps. In addition to maps we used a worksheet :
Problem
Areas & Positive Areas Exercise for recording resident impressions
of neighborhood
After that we broke down into discussion
groups to generate ideas about how we could improve the neighborhood through
physical design. The following links contain specific information about
the "tools" used during the Break Down Discussion groups:
Information
Handout (written explanation for residents)
Brainstorming
Format Worksheet (for recording ideas)
Priority
Chart Worksheet (for delegating priorities)
During this session the students
helped generate disscussion by presenting boards with infromation on the
topics that they had gathered prior to the workshop. For more information
on this see Litterature research
Results
of the Workshop
The result of the first session
is a series of maps showing the areas that resident percieve as problem
areas and positive areas alon with a list of what caracteristics make them
positive or problematic. Follow the link below to see the maps:
Cognitive
maps
The final product of the workshop
was a list of priorities for the changes that resident would like to see
happen in their neighborhood and a summary of the items from this list
that the university team will be able to help develop further. Follow the
link below to see the list:
List
of priorities for change
Pictures
from the work shop
This section
shows a number of pictures taken during the different parts of the work
shop.
(click to enlarge)
 Erick,
HK, and Jimmy present a special topic board on CPTED (Crime Prevention
Through Environmental Design) to residents during a lunch break.
 Mark
and Mel present another special topic board on Streetscape options to residents
while Erin listens to a resident who was interested in her board on Open
Space options.
 Mel
records information in a break down group while residents speak their minds.
 Professor
Bob Selby, Erick and residents listen as Mark elaborates on a comment made
by Mrs. Jones (a prominent resident of the 21-Blocks).
 Brian
and Jimmy record information gathered during the break down groups in order
to set priorities.
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