We had another good night of drinks and discussion. Thanks for joining us last Thursday. Our first project will be, drumroll please!
Crossing the Crosstown Create a pathing, and signage which will make automobiles more aware of the pedestrians that are crossing. Signs could include ways for educating the pedestrians about safety while crossing. Ideas, planning, and implementation should be done in one to two days. This can culminate with a kick-off party, for our next project, in the park on Line St. or in front of Mitchell Elementary School.
The plan right now is to have another planning meeting with the Design Selection Team. We are still looking for memebers to join our various committees.
Project Design Selection
Fundraising/Event Organization
Administration
Project Managment Committee: which will be specific to a project and is a short term commitment, as it will run until the project is completed.
Since we have our first project we will be creating the Project Management Committee in tandum with the Design Selection Committee.
The hope is to schedule a day in January, possibly a Saturday, and run a charette for ideas on creating awareness for the issue of Pedestrains vs. the Crosstown. Plese keep an eye on the Blog, your email (if your not on the list email afh.charleston@gmail.com) and the Facebook page for dates and more information. We are also throwing around the idea of having a casual Happy Hour sometime in December.
Once again thanks so much we are all really excited about this first project!
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Projects
There have been a few project ideas already posted and for those of you that have emailed me, I will start adding them as comments to this post. Please use the comment function below to add your ideas for projects.
Here are a few of the ideas we discussed at the committee meeting last week.
Sustainable Awareness Project | Help people in need upgrade their homes to make them more efficient and more sustainable with good design in mind. This can also be an awareness project where we have a competition to design a better looking efficient or sustainable item. We might be able to team up with the Sustainability Institute.
Crossing the Crosstown | Create a pathing, and signage which will make automobiles more aware of the pedestrians that are crossing. Signs could include ways for educating the pedestrians about safety while crossing. Ideas, planning, and implementation should be done in one to two days. This can culminate with a kick-off party, for our next project, in the park on Line St. or in front of Mitchell Elementary School.
Playground Redux | Select a park that is either in dis-repair, under used, lacking in equipment to refurbish. We might even look for a place that a formal park doesn't exist, but the neighborhood uses. This project could be a competition, we would need to raise the funds initially and use the amount of money as a restriction to the project. There needs to be involvement from the community that uses the park, which will also be a requirement of any participant in the competition.
Accessible Ramp | A lot of us really like the basic idea behind this project. We have access to lists of people in need. We should be able to fund the project easily and hopefully a few times over to help as many people as possible. Client involvement with the design team is vital.
Transportable Elderly Cottage | This should be a goal for the year, but definitely need to be more established to take this on. We are still very intrigued by this project, and we hope to take it on in the near future.
Crossing the Crosstown | Create a pathing, and signage which will make automobiles more aware of the pedestrians that are crossing. Signs could include ways for educating the pedestrians about safety while crossing. Ideas, planning, and implementation should be done in one to two days. This can culminate with a kick-off party, for our next project, in the park on Line St. or in front of Mitchell Elementary School.
Playground Redux | Select a park that is either in dis-repair, under used, lacking in equipment to refurbish. We might even look for a place that a formal park doesn't exist, but the neighborhood uses. This project could be a competition, we would need to raise the funds initially and use the amount of money as a restriction to the project. There needs to be involvement from the community that uses the park, which will also be a requirement of any participant in the competition.
Accessible Ramp | A lot of us really like the basic idea behind this project. We have access to lists of people in need. We should be able to fund the project easily and hopefully a few times over to help as many people as possible. Client involvement with the design team is vital.
Transportable Elderly Cottage | This should be a goal for the year, but definitely need to be more established to take this on. We are still very intrigued by this project, and we hope to take it on in the near future.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Fund-raising
Please use the comment function below to share ideas, questions, and answers related to fund-rasing.
Clients
The Clients can be anyone from non-profits to community organizations or individuals that are in need of design help. Please use the comment function below to add to a list of potential Clients.
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