workbook.pdf

Work-

book

Minnesota

Design

Team

Table of

Contents

Minnesota Design Team Mission Statement

Your Community and the Minnesota Design Team

Your Community’s Shared Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Your Community’s Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

What is a Minnesota Design Team Visit?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Is It a Good Time to Apply for a Design Team Visit? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Getting Community Support for a Design Team Visit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Making a Commitment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Application for a Community Visit

Preparing for the Visit

Your Community Has Been Accepted for a Minnesota Design Team Visit — Now What?. . . . 21

A Typical Timeline: The Visit isn’t the First Deadline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

What the Design Team Does . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

What the Community and the Design Team Do Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Your “People Infrastructure” — Making Participation Broad and Deep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

The Nuts and Bolts of Getting Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Understanding Your Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Community Action Research — The Four Environments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Written Survey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Photo Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

The Weekend Visit

The Weekend Visit is the Culmination of All Your Hard Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Typical Weekend Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

For the Weekend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Thursday Evening — Arrival. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Friday Morning — Community Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Friday Noon — Lunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Friday Afternoon — Community Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Friday Late Afternoon — Team Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Friday Evening — Community Potluck Dinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Friday Evening — Town Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Friday Night — Social Gathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Saturday Morning/Afternoon — Team Work Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Saturday Evening — Community Gathering and Design Team Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Saturday Night — Social Gathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Making It Happen After the Visit

Organizing Your Implementation Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Evaluating Your Community’s Implementation Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

The Design Team Visits Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Appendix

Minnesota Design Team Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Hiring Professionals to Help Your Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Preparing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Work Your Community Wants To Do. . . . . . 80

The Minnesota Design Team Workbook is the

product of many hands. Those who

contributed their

experience and expertise are:

Myles Alexander

Paul Baltzersen

Bob Claybaugh

James R. Dean

Judie Erickson

Joe Esker

Mike Lamb

Richard McLaughlin

Arthur Mehrhoff

Peter Musty

Lucy Thompson

Judith Van Dyne

Janet Whitmore

Photos

James R. Dean

Editor

Penelope Simison

Graphic Design

Rubin Cordaro Design

We gratefully thank the following

contributors to the

Workbook project.

American Institute of Architects Minnesota

American Planning Association, Minnesota Chapter

American Society of Landscape Architects, Minnesota Chapter

Otto Bremer Foundation

College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota

Minnesota Design Team Steering Committee

The

Minnesota

Design

Team

Statement

The mission of the Minnesota Design Team is to use design and community development prin-

ciples to help Minnesota communities, particularly those in rural areas, develop and act upon

a shared vision of their future.

The Minnesota Design Team has three objectives when it works with communities —

We want to increase awareness of the benefits of quality design in the development of com-

munities. As architects, landscape architects and allied professionals, we use planning and

design concepts to illustrate each community’s unique vision.

We want to preserve each community’s identity. With images and words, we construct a

sustainable vision with existing assets, including people and institutions, buildings, and the

natural environment.

The Minnesota Design Team is committed to participatory democracy and grass-roots initia-

tive. We hope to inspire community-based development through a positive experience of

bringing together people to better understand their community, one another and the future.

Mission

Your Community and

the Minnesota Design Team

Your Community’s Shared Vision

Look at your community today.

Now, imagine what you want it to look like in 5

years, 10 years or 20 years. What do you see?

Maybe you see a new community center for your

teenagers…or trails connecting your parks…or

restoration of the 1900s bank building on Main

Street. Some of your neighbors probably have the

same ideas you do. Others have different ideas —

perhaps a new industrial park on the edge of town

or a spruced-up downtown business street.

Now, imagine that there’s a way to bring all these

ideas together into one shared vision for your

community.

The Minnesota Design Team process is a way of

bringing people together to generate ideas to

improve their community and create a sustainable

future. It is also a way to develop a process for turn-

ing many of those ideas into reality.

The process of creating a shared vision begins

with a community that wants to make the most of

its physical and environmental elements. Creating a

shared vision also happens when a community real-

izes that no one person or group of people

can know the best course of action. So,

the community sets out to involve

as many people as possible, gath-

ering together the ideas of all

segments of the community.

A Design Team visit is a way to crystallize these

ideas and to energize the community. The Design

Team is a volunteer group of architects, landscape

architects, urban designers, planners and others

with expertise in community development. During

an intense weekend visit, the community shares its

history, current problems, opportunities and dreams

for the future. The Design Team combines this infor-

mation with its knowledge of design and community

development and gives back to the community a

series of design concepts and drawings—a pictorial

representation of the community’s shared vision.

This is the Design Team process.

Since 1983, the Design Team has visited more

than 80 communities, helping them as they evolve

their shared visions. Shared visions are unique to

each community. In many ways, though, the process

produces similar results. More people become

involved in the community—sometimes many, but

always a few new people willing to take more

responsibility for the community’s future. Most

importantly, Design Team communities have a better

idea of what their residents envision for

the future. And because it’s a

shared vision, Design Team

communities have a better

chance of turning their

visions into reality.

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