We start by hosting community workshops, group interviews, and creative activities organized with local partners in four cities – St. Paul, Los Angeles, Syracuse, and Mesa, AZ. – this brings together local stakeholders: housing insecure, policy makers, government workers, commercial and non-profit developers, activists, and advocates to have conversations.
At these sessions, we utilize:
- story circles,
- design thinking technologies,
- group composition exercises,
to build collaboration, open up imaginative thinking, and seed mutual understanding and trust.