Dot Exercises
Dot Exercises creates broader perception and input in community meetings
When we are engaged in community-wide planning and design initiatives with public participation, we solicit feedback in the process. We start our projects with Listening, with all participants are asked these three questions, and their individual responses are decided on maps and summarized in written documentation.
Each Participant in a public process is given three green dots to locate neighborhood strengths, three red dots to identify neighborhood challenges, and three blue dots to locate opportunities where within this effort. The discussion around the exercise is documented into notes, and the results are compiled to in a comprehensive drawing. The effort is an ideal record of discussion, and many times a pattern emerges for the urban design plan in the process.
