The program is designed to help community leaders, designers, building owners and policy makers to examine how living green infrastructure investment could work on the streets, roofs and walls of their own communities. The Green Infrastructure Design Charrette involves engaging multi-disciplinary volunteers to redesign specific neighbourhoods in need, with fifteen generic types of green infrastructure as their tools. The results are then subject to an aggregate cost-benefit analysis. The Charrette planned for November 9th, at CitiesAlive in Toronto is being sponsored by the Green Infrastructure Foundation, and will feature sites from three communities - Chicago, Minneapolis (Brooklyn Center) and Toronto. Sites in each of these communities will be subject to a green infrastructure makeover, conducted by the Charrette attendees.
The Charrette includes a short lecture on green infrastructure elements by David Yocca, FASLA, Blacks in Green, Chair, Green Infrastructure Foundation, followed by the opportunity to re envision one of the three sites using green infrastructure elements.
Participants will:
learn about the elements of green infrastructure
learn the benefits of different types of green infrastructure
learn how to apply green infrastructure in different settings with real opportunities and constraints
learn how to participate in a group design setting and achieve consensus on design objectives and strategies