Not just checking the box. Through fun, active, and celebratory engagement, we capture your community's story. We build community support around goals and aspirations by hosting community workshops and organizing community tours, creating a clear vision that ensures understanding and incorporation of local preferences. The outcomes are both strategic and transformative. Our engagement strategies range from conversations around homemade pound cake and coffee to digital engagement through social media platforms, as well as initiatives rooted in tactical urbanism. Every community receives a customized engagement strategy to meet the analog and electronic preferences of the community.
Community tours
Sometimes it just takes a different pace. Traveling by bus, bike, golf cart, or on foot allows you to absorb your community in an unconventional manner. Through the narration of an urban naturalist during our community tours, your environment will be beautifully revealed, explaining how the public and private realms are or are not functioning. That distinction is the difference between the places you linger and enjoy and those you cannot wait to escape.
The insights gained from these tours can also inform future policies, budgets, and development standards, especially when considered in community workshops focusing on tactical urbanism. Let’s tour your community, capture its story, and map the journey forward.
tactical urbanism
Measure twice, cut once. Before allocating public money on big projects, it’s crucial to garner community support by bringing paper plans to life. Engage the local populace through community workshops and tours, allowing them to experience your vision firsthand. Using items like temporary chalk paint, moveable furniture, plywood sidewalks, and food trucks, let Simplecity.Design help your ideas be observed in real life. Tactical urbanism is an effective approach to validate street improvements, overhaul development codes, and inspire support for capital investments.
But... be ready to go! The community is going to get excited, and expectations will be set!