Design Day Workshop

The workshop was helpful even with most of the room having already participated in a design charrette. The role playing was entertaining especially since they include the students as the facilitator and scribe. Most of the information was self explanatory, but there were several points that applied to setting up a charrette that will prove to be helpful in the future.

Later in the day we broke up into our town groups and discussed the game plan for Design Day. The Allendale group decided to split into 2 groups (both gateways). I did most of my initial analysis at the USC-Salk gateway so I joined up with that group. We laid out the ground work for what we want to accomplish on March 7th. We all have our separate tasks to do before that date to prepare for the all day Design Day. We really want to promote pedestrian traffic from the campus into town. Its currently automobile oriented with no real streetscape. A driver can actual speed right by the campus and not even know they are entering the main street of Allendale. We'll be working on ways to tie the residential and campus streets to downtown. I'm real interested to see how it turns out.