Building Communities With Legos and Plastic Bottles
17 August 2009 - 12:00pm
GOOD Magazine follows planner James Rojas as he engages a community in the act of planning in his own particular fashion, using everyday objects and building blocks.
"'Many planning meetings are boring, contentious, and fail to stir people’s creative energy,' says Rojas. Even though planners consistently work closely with groups of constituents, they're stuck with the kinds of tools they like to use: maps, words and pictures. Well, not everyone can understand a complex map. Other people are uncomfortable writing. And even the physical tools—Post-It notes, simple blocks, whiteboards—that planners use during charrettes do nothing to get the imagination pumping."
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GOOD Magazine, August 14, 2009
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