SUN-C06: Healing Landscapes: Toolkit for Truth-Driven Planning Decisions

Sunday, October 29, 2023

3:45pm – 4:45pm CT

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

McKenzie Wilhelm, ASLA (she/her/hers)

Partner
Coen+Partners
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Speaker(s)

Camille V. Maddox (she/her/hers)

Senior Consultant
MAYA Consulting
Houston, Texas
Alejandra Peña-Gutiérrez (she/her/hers)

Director
Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

How do we meaningfully engage communities in co-creating inclusive open space systems? This session explores a new toolkit (with Minneapolis as the pilot) that uses oral histories, geospatial data, and community partners to examine the complex layers of migration, displacement, and community culture that has evolved in our cities.

Learning Outcomes:

Utilize a toolkit of geo-tagged oral histories and deepened community connections as a new lens for planning processes.
Articulate how past and present policies have helped create and facilitate segregation, inequity, and mistrust .
Examine community engagement processes to identify opportunities to bring community stakeholders into the process earlier. Reimagine community engagement as a top-down driving force shaping our master plans and design briefs.
Define a methodology for qualitative data collection and community healing through engagement, informed by lessons learned from our Minneapolis pilot project.