Welcome to Philadelphia WELCOME SLIDE Civic Commons Studio #1 December 6 – 8, 2016
Civic Commons Philadelphia: Physical Assets
Civic Commons Philadelphia Centennial Commons East Parkside
Centennial Commons East Parkside
Civic Commons Philadelphia Viaduct Rail Park Callowhill /Chinatown
Viaduct Rail Park Callowhill / Chinatown
Viaduct Rail Park Callowhill / Chinatown
Civic Commons Philadelphia Bartram’s Mile Southwest Philadelphia
Bartram’s Mile Southwest Philadelphia
Civic Commons Philadelphia Discovery Center Strawberry Mansion
Discovery Center Strawberry Mansion
Civic Commons Philadelphia Lovett Library and Park Lovett Library & Park Neighborhood: Mount Airy Mt. Airy
Lovett Library & Park Mt. Airy
Civic Commons Philadelphia: People Are Critical Assets
Reimagining the Civic Commons Case Study: Bartram’s Garden • Model of programming that leads to social and economic integration • Risk-taking part of organizational culture • Civic engagement core to the mission • Cross neighborhood connections
Reimagining the Civic Commons Case Study: Bartram’s Garden • Data shows good mixing around overall events and number of different program areas – ex: boating and getting people back to the river • Opportunities with other activities (fishing, nature watching) that are solely local or external visitors
Reimagining the Civic Commons Case Study: Bartram’s Garden
Learning from the Commons: Innovation Fund Innovation Fund goals: Collaboration Integration Learning Try, fail, share, inspire, but most of all - learn
Learning from the Commons: Neighborhood Exchange Boxes If a Philadelphia neighborhood could send a gift box to another neighborhood, filled with all of the things that make its community unique, what would go in the box?
Learning from the Commons: Neighborhood Exchange Boxes LEARNINGS MT. AIRY USA FINDINGS Asking how to identify your neighborhood as unique • Most visitors were local; very diverse • created opportunity for neighborhood pride – how to 53% learned about the event through • measure this joy? word of mouth How do we continue this energy with projects in active • Over 50% had never been to construction? • How to better cross-collaborate to promote distant assets? Bartram’s Garden • Experiential Learnings: survey data – hard to measure kids; • • 41% used Lovett Library regularly creating spectacle brings people in; allow opportunities for prior to its closing people to linger BARTRAM’S GARDEN FINDINGS Most visitors were local • Half learned about it through social • media or on our website. 63% did not know about or visited • the Viaduct Rail Park
Learning from the Commons: Viola Alley Connector Project How can we bring creative placemaking into the neighborhood to employ skills from across civic assets, enliven a community space, generate foot traffic, share community stories and activate underutilized space? Activity : Takeover of an alley to create a gateway of art, information, and programming
Learning from the Commons: Viola Alley Connector Project • 500 attendees passed through the alley / adjacent lot • Findings: Good mix of visitors in and out of neighborhood; most met someone new; word of mouth best promotion • Learnings: • How can we integrate this programming into other local civic assets? Centennial Commons, Letitia • How do we use prototyping as an engagement tool – this event got more people out asking questions and engaged, how do we maintain momentum? Experiential learnings: seating @ tabling events; condensed spaces & picnic tables encourage interaction
Reimagining the Civic Commons: Strategies Civic Commons Collective • Learning Exchanges : share knowledge and expertise among partners • Learning Labs : learn from international experts • Learning Journeys : travel to other cities for hands-on learning from colleagues • Innovation Fund : field-leader driven programming and prototyping for collaborative learning Learning Themes • Utilization of assets • Perception of asset / neighborhood • Economic integration • Civic engagement • Political/public support • Talent attraction/retention • Collaboration among Collective partners • Growth of Collective
Reimagining the Civic Commons: Partnership Structure Civic Commons Steering Committee Civic Commons Collective & Innovation Fund • Bartram’s Mile: Bartram’s Garden, Schuylkill River Development Corporation • Centennial Commons: Fairmount Park Conservancy; Philadelphia Parks & Recreation • Discovery Center: Audubon PA; Outward Bound • Lovett Library & Park: Free Library of Philadelphia; Mt. Airy USA • Reading Terminal Market • Viaduct Rail Park: Center City District Neighborhood organizations connected to the assets: • Centennial Parkside CDC • Friends of the Rail Park • Strawberry Mansion CDC
Learning from the Commons: Challenges & Opportunities Challenges Opportunities How do you deepen? Deepen the Commons further into the • Collaboration neighborhoods; among the partners • Integration • Learning • Communication (!) How do you broaden? Establish broader network of organizations • Learning and learning partners, reach more • Organization participation neighborhoods • Communication How do you scale? Scale up - Rebuild as citywide Civic • Hyper-local Commons Opportunity • City-wide
Rebuilding Community Infrastructure One of Mayor Kenney’s five proposed investments to address the city of Philadelphia’s largest and most crippling problems $300 million in bonds + $200 million from public/private sources = $500 million investment in parks, recreation centers, and libraries over six years
Rebuilding Civic Infrastructure
Learning from the Commons: Questions We Hope To Gain Insight On Learning & Communication • How do you make time for learning when the demands are so big? How do you make time to communicate learning across platforms? Capacity & Resources • How to build dynamic team infrastructure across neighborhoods and organizations? How can we be inclusive without overtaxing? Scaling up • How to influence citywide strategy with limited resources and capacity? How do we make this sustainable long-term?
Thank you! Questions? Please feel free to follow up with us Jennifer Q. Mahar: 215-607-3487 Questions? jmahar@myphillypark.org
Recommend
More recommend
