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Galveston FuturesSustaining a Livable and Resilient
Community
Bill Merrell & Bob HarrissTexas A&M - Galveston
Purpose of This Meeting
· To initiate a conversation and project on our common, long-term future on Galveston Island
· Community participation is essential to our vision for the design and conduct of a project on sustaining a livable, resilient Galveston Island
· We will present a few concepts, but our primary goal is to get your advice
Galveston Futures Mission
Engage our community in visioning, designing, and sustaining a livable and resilient Galveston Island through broad civic participation supported by state of the art technology.
Foundational Belief
Critical issues facing our city today require:
• Short-term actions should be based on a long-term vision for livability
• We need more civic participation in designing the future of Galveston Island
Critical Gap
• Expert Knowledge
• Public Experience
“Public sentiment is everything.
With it, nothing can fail.
Without it, nothing can succeed.- Abraham Lincoln
Diverse Participants and Neutral Materials
The Technologies
Tools for Learning
Tools for Designing
The Technologies
Tools for sharing
Critical Success Factors for a Galveston Futures Discussion
• Every Voice is at the Table
• Linked to Decision-makers
• Right Content, Structure, & Process
• Deliverables that Make a Difference
The Galveston Futures Challenge
• Ensuring diverse, informed participation
• Building credibility and trust within constituent groups
• Creating dedicated and resilient leadership teams to design and staff the process
• Relatively high cost of achieving and maintaining a long-term visioning and design institution
A Galveston Futures Design Charrette
Phase I – A Spring 2006 demonstration project
The Galveston Visioning and Design Process
Where arewe now?
Where arewe going?
Where do wewant to be?
How do we get there?
Let’s Go!!
CommunityProfile
Trend Statement
VisionStatement
ActionPlan
Implementation
Visioning Action Plan
Livability &SustainabilityAssessments
AdaptiveImplementation
Trends
CaseStudies
Scenarios
AlternativeFutures
Choosinga Future
Vision for 20XX
How are we doing?
Measures of Success
Community Participation
[Modified from EPA/625/R-98/003, p. 16]
Galveston: A Visionary Past
Galveston served as “a laboratory of sorts, a testing ground for new ideas about government, society, and technology”
Patricia Bixel and Elizabeth Turner
Galveston and the 1900 StormUT Press, 2000.
Major Questions for Discussion Today
• Does this basic approach make sense to you? • Would it be an effective method of forming an
appropriate vision and uniting the community behind it?
• How could the approach be improved?
• If successful, how could the Galveston community assume ownership of the vision and the process to continuously refine it and measure progress toward common goals?
Galveston: The Resilient City
“Galveston City is several acres of people, mainly optimists safeguarding a community of interests, endowed with grit, persistency, an abiding faith in their ultimate destiny and a notion that theirs is the best place on earth.”William Phares Chochran
Source: P. Bixel and E. Turner, Galveston and the 1900 Storm, UT Press, 2000.
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