Planning By Design in Community: Making Great Plances, CIP/MPPI Conference, 13-16 July 2008

Concurrent Sessions Tracks

Notes:

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Planning for Community by Design (PCD):

For those who prefer their planning and design with a strong community content – community-based and community-driven - this track could be for you. This will be a venue for the community designers at the conference to find one another, and make their mark together. Arthur Mehrhoff, who wrote one of the main primers on community design, will anchor the track, and offer a keynote. The importance of place, and the placemaking perspective, will also be on the agenda – for exploration, and possible rehabilitation into our work.

PCD-CS1 Monday, July 14: 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
Calling All Community Designers: Exploring the Call and Cause Underlying Community Design with Placemaking in Mind

The Place of Community Design/The Place in Community Design and Placemaking

Arthur Mehrhoff (Former Director of the Minnesota Design Team; Emeritus Professor, Academic Coordinator for the Museum of Art & Archaeology, and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Agriculture, Resource, and Environmental Systems (CARES) University of Missouri. He has worked in community design and heritage preservation for three decades, including a lengthy appointment at St Cloud University, Minnesota).

Place: Replacing the Fabric of Human Experience

Don Alexander, Ph.D., MCIP (Professor, Department of Geography, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC; representative of the Smart Growth Canada Network and the New City Institute)

Moderator: Sheri Blake, PhD, MCIP (Associate Professor, Department of City Planning, University of Manitoba)

PCD-CS2 Monday, July 14: 1:30-3 p.m.
Creating Cultural Spaces and Places: What’s Planning Got to Do With It?

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Presentation 3

Michael Gordon, MCIP (Senior Central Area Planner, City of Vancouver, and Adjunct Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia)
Jeanna South, (Urban Design Manager, City of Saskatoon, SK)
Jason Granger, (Executive Director of Art City, Winnipeg, MB)

Moderator: Rae Bridgman, PhD, MCIP (Professor, Department of City Planning, University of Manitoba)

PCD-CS3 Monday, July 14: 3:30-5 p.m.
Planning for the Seniors Surge: Age-Friendly Design

The Geography of Aging: Preparing Communities for the Surge in Seniors

Gerald Hodge Ph.D. (Community and Regional Planner, Hornby Island, BC).

Planning and Place-Making for an Age-Friendly Community

Lucy Tompkins (Planner with the City of Richmond, Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Department, Richmond, BC).
Laura Piette (South District Manager, Recreation and Parks, City of Mississauga, ON).
Michael Cleland MCIP RPP (currently leads a team responsible for Business Development in the City of Mississauga’s Recreation and Parks Division)

Creating Older Adult Clusters – The Mississauga Experience

André Robichaud is a recent graduate of the Master’s in Science (Planning) program at the University of Toronto, in the environmental planning stream
David Wachsmuth is a recent graduate of the Master’s in Science (Planning) program at the University of Toronto, in the social policy stream.

Moderator: Richard Milgrom (Assistant Professor, City Planning, University of Manitoba)

PCD-CS4 Tuesday, July 15: 10:30-11:30 a.m.
How planners working in northern communities are adapting approaches to planning

Place in the Making: Adapting to North of Sixty

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Ian D. Robertson MCIP (Principal of Inukshuk Planning & Development Ltd, a Whitehorse, Yukon environmental planning and landscape architecture firm).
Margaret J. Kralt, Provisional MCIP (a recent graduate of the University of Guelph’s Rural Planning and Development Program, now a planner with Dillon Consulting Limited in Yellowknife, NWT)

Moderator: Marc Brown MCP (Community Planner, Community Planning Services, Manitoba Intergovernmental Affairs, Beausejour, MB)

PCD-CS5 Tuesday, July 15: 1:30-3 p.m.
Shaping the Future: Community Involvement in Planning

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Frank Palermo, FCIP FRAIC (Professor of Architecture and Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Dalhousie University)
Dan Pitera (Executive Director of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture).
Peter Burch (Planner, City of Vancouver).
Katie Rabinowicz / Andrea Winkler (Both potential presenters, who work with Multistory Complex and PlanningAction in Toronto. Andrea also works with Urban Strategies).

Moderator: Sheri Blake PhD MCIP (Associate Professor, City Planning, University of Manitoba)

PCD-CS6 Tuesday, July 15: 3:30-5 p.m.
New Neighbourhood Revitalization and Community-Based Development Initiatives.

Community Visioning as a Tool for Community Engagement

Nilgun Erkoc (Community Developer, HRM Community Relations & Cultural Affairs, Halifax, NS)

New Initiatives in Neighbourhood Revitalization: An Analysis of Action for Neighbourhood Change and Neighbourhoods Alive!

Reuben Koole (MCP Candidate, City Planning, University of Manitoba)

Regent Park Revitalization – Lessons Learned

Mitchell E. Kosny (Chair-Board of Directors, Toronto Community Housing Corporation, Toronto, Ontario Associate Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University-Toronto).

Moderator: Molly Johnson (Policy Analyst, Urban Development Branch, Manitoba Inter-Governmental Affairs, Winnipeg, MB)

PCD-CS7 Wednesday, July 16: 9-10:30 a.m.
Placing Community Design in the Planning Universe

Building Community Identity: Planning By Design in Community

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Wins Bridgman (Director of BridgmanCollaborative Architecture, which specializes in sustainable architecture through participatory community design and integrated design processes)
Michael Robertson MRAIC (Of Cree descent, Michael was the first Aboriginal graduate from the M. Arch. program at the University of Manitoba. Now a Director of BridgmanCollaborative Architecture Ltd. and an Adjunct Professor with the University of Manitoba’s Department of City Planning).
Marcella Poirier (MCP Candidate, Director of Planning and Communications, BridgmanCollaborative, Winnipeg)

Track Wrap-Up Commentary

Led/Moderated by Arthur Mehrhoff (including an invitation to lunch together – see below) – an effort to synthesize the lessons learned from the track sessions, and to strategize the next steps for Canadian Community Design.

Moderator: Sheri Blake, PhD, MCIP (Associate Professor, Department of City Planning, University of Manitoba)

Wednesday, July 16: 12 p.m.
Community Designers Luncheon Meeting

(to consider forming a Community Design ‘community of practice’/CIP interest group, and/or launching a ‘Manitoba Design Team’ initiative)
Centre Place Café (West Overflow/Patio Area), Winnipeg Convention Centre