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April 9, 2013
The Open Office

A new project at London's Architecture Foundation, run by the architecture practice We Made That, aims to educate citizen planners by putting elements of localism on display for citizens to explore – and take part in.

In the UK, local planning is now in the hands of communities, following the passing of the Localism Act, which has the potential to give anyone a voice in neighborhood planning. The problem is that not many citizens are sure how the process should work.

October 22, 2012
Currents: Engaging Explores Innovative Outreach as Key to Urban Space Design

Nearly every public project conducted in the United States incorporates some form of public outreach. Today, in an increasingly global and digital era, traditional public meetings often fall short of reaching the increasingly diverse and information-saturated citizens of today’s American cities. Or, the efforts fail to incite the interest required to achieve the long-term buy-in for planning and design strategies that’s needed to see a project through to successful implementation.

Nearly every public project conducted in the United States incorporates some form of public outreach. Today, in an increasingly global and digital era, traditional public meetings often fall short of reaching the increasingly diverse and information-saturated citizens of today’s American cities. Or, the efforts fail to incite the interest required to achieve the long-term buy-in for planning and design strategies that’s needed to see a project through to successful implementation.

September 28, 2012
Civic Action: Re-Envision the Future of Neighborhoods

Community leaders and planners share their experiences engaging in place-based neighborhood renewal, exploring what happens when fine artists collaborate with city builders to plan for the future of a neighborhood and what role art can take in exploring creative, integrated approaches to planning? 

August 4, 2011
The Revival of Mental Maps

Recently, a team of students from the School of Information at University of California in Berkley, working on their final master project, enlisted the help of San Fransisco residents to find out how people see vs. imagine their city. The purpose of this research? To discover whether an age old process in planning, such as Mental Mapping can be combined with today’s digital mapping tools tools (ie: GIS ) to create a balance of accuracy and precision, truth and objectivity using unconventional combinations of techniques and imagination that comes from access to “local' knowledge of any respective place.