Community Engagement ToolsCommunity Engagement Tools‘Do the right projects for your community’

• Understand how residents connect to green/ environment

• Identify entry points for green infrastructure project support (local assets, community issues, green leaders, potential partners)

• Develop green infrastructure projects as part of a broader plan for community sustainability (linked community system)

• Communicate green infrastructure and your vision in ways people will relate to

Listening to, Telling, & Sharing Stories Listening to, Telling, & Sharing Stories is Essential to…is Essential to…

• Building green leadership

• Creating new green community narratives rooted in local, shared values

Community Engagement Tools

Green Practices Visual Collages

Foster Green Partnerships Workshop

Mapping Green Assets Workshop

Instructions & Instruments Available at: http://fieldmuseum.org/explore/department/ecco/downloads

Green Practices Visual Collages6 sets of collagesIndividual or group exercises

“What do you do?” “What have you seen others do?”“What do you want to do but find difficult?”

Guiding Questions: facts → storiesCaptions: spread green knowledge

Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH1pOMp8ziA

Foster Green Foster Green Partnerships WorkshopPartnerships Workshop2-hour workshop with diverse

community leaders (green and beyond)

Goal: Brainstorm ideas for collaborative green projects that address environmental and social/economic issues

Component Goal

What Does Green Look Like? Photo Activity

Discuss and expand notions of “green” in relation to your community

Green Partnership Case Study Videos

Learn about innovative projects linking well-being of people & nature

Small Group Discussions

Brainstorm green issues to collaborate on

Workshop ComponentsWorkshop Components

Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jRg8hPke7Q

Mapping Green Assets Mapping Green Assets WorkshopWorkshop

• 2-hour workshop with residents and leaders (green and beyond)

• Goal: Identify and map green and potential green assets to build on, as well as concerns for green projects to address

What are Green Assets?What are Green Assets?

• Community strengths: springboards for engagement

• Tangible: leaders, organizations, networks, natural resources, etc.

• Intangible: cultural values and practices• What makes an asset green? It is related to

conserving, caring for, monitoring, advocating for, or educating others about issues related to nature and environment (water, land, air, waste, toxics, energy)

Workshop ComponentsWorkshop Components

Component Goal

Discussion: What are Green Assets?

Establish a common definition in relation to your community

Activity: Community Walk or Sharing Stories

Identify green or potential green assets

Asset Mapping Plot assets on a map; create a list of intangible assets.

‘‘Homework’ for June 22 WorkshopHomework’ for June 22 Workshop• Do some of these activities with residents and leaders in your community, ideally:

– Visual Collages or Foster Green Partnerships Workshop– Mapping Green Assets Workshop

• After the Mapping Green Assets Workshop, add additional assets identified through other activities to your asset map and list. Also make 2 additional lists, of: 1) community concerns you might be able to address through green projects, and 2) key residents and leaders you might partner with on green projects.

• Bring your map and 3 lists with you on June 22—or send them ahead of time to Erika Hasle at ehasle@fieldmuseum.org

• Need help? Contact Jennifer Hirsch at jhirsch@fieldmuseum.org

Together, we will start to create the community layer of the Southland GIV Map—resulting in a regional green infrastructure vision that connects natural resources to social, environmental,

political, economic assets and concerns