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ASK QUESTIONS AND LISTEN.
1. What topics sparked your Creative Placemaking process?
2. What partnerships do we need to achieve our objectives?
3. In what ways do we engage youth, seniors, disabled, marginalized?
4. How can we use art and culture to engage civic activation? Who can lead creative sessions where you
use post-its, white-boards, game pieces, maps, photographs, toys, art supplies and any other material to
allow free expression and new ways of seeing the community, its assets and needs?
5. What are visions for a future, how are they different from the present?
6. What outcomes do you hope to achieve?
7. What is or is not in the built-environment that can be seen as an asset or need?
8. How will you and what are the qualities or quantifiers to measure success?What bench-marks can we
use to measure improvement from?
9. What sub-goals will lead to outcomes, list activities or steps?
10. What strategies can be implemented towards the vision?
11. How can goals be divided into short-, medium- and long-term?
12. How shall information, reports, calendar events, updates and other information be communicated and
managed?
13. What city or county policies and procedures exist, e.g. rules, zones, uses, permits?
14. What barriers or changes to city or county policies and procedures would support goals, incentivize
resources or leverage existing plans? (https://www.policylink.org/our-work/community/arts-culture/plan)
Seek planning checklists that suit your location, for example:
“A Plan to Plan Checklist” in Developing a Strategic Cultural Plan: A Work Kit” Louise K. Stevens
(https://intranet.americansforthearts.org/by-program/reports-and-data/legislation-policy/naappd/ developing-a-strategic-cultural-plan-a-work-kit)
HIGH-ALTITUDE LOOK AT THE NEEDS AND ASSETS
The “Placemaking Assessment Tool” by the Michigan State University Land Policy Institute has made very helpful distinctions that will facilitate exploration, ways of seeing, and understanding that will inform the entire planning team and process. (See charts below.)
Check and recheck you have invited a spectrum of sectors. Refer to the Citations section “Planning” for more resources.
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