Practicing Engagement: A Post-COVID Field Report

Among the many challenges presented by COVID-19, requirements for sheltering-in-place and social distancing continue to prompt new approaches to community engagement. In the summer of 2020, the University of Hawai’i Community Design Center (UHCDC) conducted two community engagement exercises for two very different projects. The first engaged the University of Hawai’i at Manoa community around the re-envisioning of Varney Circle, a historic campus focal point. The second engaged the rural Wahiawā Town community around the redevelopment of the Wahiawā Civic Center. Both engagement processes reached out to communities of approximately 20,000 people, however, the contrast in constituencies and contexts for engagement shaped distinct approaches and takeaways.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.109.81

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978-1-944214-37-1