The workshop’s local co-sponsor was the University of Wisconsin Extension, in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin River Falls and the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The keynote speaker was Daniel Marcel from the Design Center for American Urban Landscape at University of Minnesota-Minneapolis. 

Between March 20-22, regional leaders gathered for design lectures, group engagements, a bus tour of local natural resources, case study presentations, and the culminating Your Town workshop based on a hypothetical rural town in West Central Wisconsin. Programming aimed to address the specific needs and issues of rural Wisconsin, particularly the West Central region.

Learn more from the River Falls Workshop Notebook.