Community Visioning News

 

Community Visioning will be on display at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this summer

AMES, Iowa – Community Visioning will be featured in Iowa State University's exhibit at the Smithsonian's Folklife Festival this summer. The exhibit, "Transforming Communities: Design in Action," will highlight the central role of design in the land-grant mission, and extension's past, present and future impact on communities. Read more about the exhibit.

Assessments under way in visioning communities

AMES, Iowa – The 2012 visioning communities are currently in the assessment phase of the process. Each community is having focus group workshops to better understand the transportation needs and opportunities.

 This year, we are providing focus group participants with GPS-enabled digital cameras, so they can go out into the community and photograph what they've just discussed. At the end of the workshop, the photographs are uploaded to an online map of the community. Participants are able to see the locations of the barriers and opportunities that they identified, as well as those identified by other focus group participants.

 

 

2012 VISIONING COMMUNITIES CLICK HERE FOR WORKSHOP DATA

 

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