Workshop: All Together: How Bureaucrats Can Co-Create a Citywide Placemaking Initiative
This workshop will demonstrate how government bureaucrats can partner with a diverse cast of characters—community groups, small businesses, “Big” Businesses, artists, and neighbors alike—to co-create a citywide placemaking initiative. The facilitators will first present Shine On SF, an initiative that sought to rebuild a sense of community and civic pride while reinvigorating public spaces as San Francisco emerged from the pandemic. The workshop will then look to participants to try out this co-creation approach in real time. The facilitators will invite participants to co-create a real-life waterfront placemaking initiative, whose goal is to take early steps to engage the city in a multi-billion-dollar waterfront resiliency capital project that will be implemented over the coming decades. Participants will help assist this effort using stakeholder mapping and program development methodology outlined by the facilitators. Learn the challenges and limitations of working with a messy array of cross-sector actors, including letting others claim ownership (and its accompanying praise), losing control, not having all the answers, and the risk of total failure. Learn the (surprising) benefits of the approach, including that it’s a critical way to rebuild trust between residents and government – and worth the risks – given the challenges of our time.
Register in advance for this workshop: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIldeqtrD4sH9Abe_TgrQKbpfNVZOuzG3aT
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Julia Ayeni
Assistant Director, Capital Planning, University of California, Office of the President,
Amy Cohen
Business Generation Manager, Port of San Francisco
Julie Flynn
Senior Project Director, The Street Plans Collaborative