School of Planning, Design and Construction National Charrette Institute

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  City of Fort St. John uses charrette process to confirm direction for 100 Street corridor design

  Published on September 24, 2019
  The City of Fort St. John in British Columbia, Canada, like many communities, has struggled with downtown revitalization. In 2015, the City Council adopted the Fort St. John Downtown Action Plan, an ambitious plan to revitalize it’s downtown.

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  Consensus Building Institute’s Stacie Smith to speak at SPDC Industry Seminar Series in October

  Published on September 18, 2019
  Smith, associate managing director and a senior mediator at the Consensus Building Institute will present on “Building Consensus through Collaboration in Difficult Settings and Diverse Communities.”

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  Using the NCI charrette process to build trust

  Published on August 15, 2019
  NCI was awarded an opportunity to work with the National Recreation and Parks Association to develop curriculum for parks and recreation professionals that ties in elements of diversity, equity and inclusion, in part through building trust.

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  National Charrette Institute discussed collaboration strategies at CNU 27.Louisville Conference

  Published on June 18, 2019
  The Congress for New Urbanism hosted their annual conference, CNU 27.Louisville, June 12-15, 2019, in Kentucky.

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  MSU Interior Design’s Linda Nubani leads efforts for 50th Annual Environmental Design Research Association Conference

  Published on April 18, 2019
  Linda Nubani, assistant professor of ID in the SPDC at MSU, was elected as chair-elect of Board of Directors of the Environmental Design Research Association. She was also elected as chair of the Conference Program Committee of its 50th Annual Conference.

• Preparing your community for opportunity zones

  Published on April 10, 2019
  New economic development tool to impact Michigan communities through a federal tax incentive

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  National Charrette Institute and the Consensus Building Institute collaborate to prepare Lakewood, New Jersey to be charrette ready

  Published on April 9, 2019
  Training practitioners to get ready for a charrette is really important because ill preparation can lead to an unsuccessful charrette process, which not only wastes time and money, but erodes precious social capital.

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  NCI expands use of charrettes in applied research to fight crime

  Published on March 19, 2019
  On Feb. 21-23, 2019, the National Charrette Institute partnered with the City of Lansing, the MSU School of Planning, Design and Construction and MSU Extension on a mini-charrette to fight crime.

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  Want to conduct a charrette but not sure where to start? Try NCI’s RFP Co-Writing Workshop

  Published on February 19, 2019
  Scheduling and conducting a charrette for the first time can feel overwhelming if you’re not sure where to start. It can also be daunting to write a Request for Proposal (RFP) to solicit proposals for a charrette process.

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  National Charrette Institute is published by prestigious American Planning Association PAS Memo

  Published on February 12, 2019
  The American Planning Association invited the National Charrette Institute at MSU to write about our charrette process for the Planning Advisory Service’s PAS Memo.

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  NCI Year in Review

  Published on January 8, 2019
  2018 Year in Review for the National Charrette Institute.

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  Michigan’s Twin Cities Sustainable Harbor project guided by NCI Charrette Ready Workshop

  Published on December 10, 2018
  The Twin Cities Harbor conservancy invited Michigan Sea Grant and others to assist the communities with next steps. Partners developed a process based on NCI's Charrette System.

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  NCI and MSU Extension host placemaking and charrette mash-up training series in Michigan

  Published on November 7, 2018
  NCI and MSU Extension partnered together to offer a training series throughout Michigan that aims to create more successful communities through NCI's placemaking process.

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  National Charrette Institute taught engagement strategies at Work in the Age of Intelligent Machines Workshop at Michigan State University

  Published on October 9, 2018
  NCI was asked to create and facilitate a series of interactions during a workshop designed to produce an agenda for research on the social, economic and policy implications of autonomous vehicles and to propose infrastructure to support that research.

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  NCI’s Holly Madill guest lectures in MSU School of Planning, Design and Construction classes

  Published on June 12, 2018
  NCI's Holly Madill introduced undergraduate students to the four types of placemaking: Standard, tactical, creative and strategic in Urban & Regional Planning’s land use planning course.