Community engagement

Springboard for the Arts and the Blandin Foundation offer "Heartland, Heartwork: A Field Guide to Place and Possibility for Rural Leaders." This resource is primarily designed for rural leaders in both formal and informal capacities (community development staff, artists, volunteers, board members, activists, elected officials, etc.)—the people who are starting, managing, or exploring a creative placemaking project in their community.

Source: CIRD’s Building Momentum for Your Long-Term Vision Webinar. Authors: Emily Schmidt and Jun-Li Wang. This resource guide contains resources and examples of successful community design projects and exemplary storytelling.

Source: CIRD’s Models and Practices for Meaningful Community Engagement Webinar. Author: Jaime Horter. This crowdsourced resource guide for creative community engagement was created by participants of a CIRD webinar, Models and Practices for Meaningful Community Engagement, led by rural artist Jamie Horter.

Source: Heartland Center for Leadership Development. Author: Milan Wall. Milan Wall discusses strategies for successful public engagement processes centered around effective group discussions, participant input, and best practices for maintaining momentum (presented at the Lincoln, NE rural design workshop).

Source: Place It! Interactive Planning. Author: James Rojas. James Rojas describes his unique Place It! Process of engaging people of all ages, cultures, backgrounds, and ethnicities in visualizing future community places based on childhood memories, and how everyday objects can be used to translate dreams and ideas into reality (presented at the Las Vegas, NM rural design workshop).

Source: Detroit Collaborative Design Center. Author: Ceara O’Leary. Ceara O’Leary draws on the work of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center to demonstrate how the residents of Salmon, Idaho, could undertake a successful process for community engagement (presented at the Salmon, ID rural design workshop).