New Guidelines For Engaging the Public in the Community Design Process To Be Developed

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What’s one way to build healthy communities? How about giving the community a voice in the design process?

That’s what the Center for Active Design hopes to accomplish by developing new guidelines to promote civic engagement as part of the design process. Thanks to the support of a $115,000 grant from the Miami based, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Center for Active Design will build on previous work such as the Active Design Guidelines, through its new “Designing for Robust Engagement, initiative.

“We believe that design plays a key role in developing communities that are more civically engaged, and we want to understand its true impact,” says Reena Agarwal, Center for Active Design policy director in an American City and County news article. “Funding provided by Knight Foundation will allow us to initiate a collaborative process that explores design and its impact on civic engagement. Our goal is to help build communities that are stronger, healthier and more sustainable over the long run.”

Once complete, this design manual will provide cities with a much needed resource to foster greater engagement and collaboration throughout the process of designing healthy communities.

Read the full press release here.