Blog Post
Practicing Accessible Design in Community Development
How do communities design for accessibility? What can we learn from co-creating living spaces with people with disabilities and their…
We envision a world where every person has the potential to be a CivicMaker, with tools, skills, and capacities to advance collaborative decision-making, and every community has what they need to co-create solutions. Being in and contributing to a community of practice brings new opportunities and layers of meaning into our work.
Check out our blog posts, events, and curated human-centered design resources below.
BLOG
The latest ideas from our team
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Blog Post
CivicMakers’ 2022 Team Retreat
Last week, we brought our team back together for the first CivicMakers retreat in over three years. In addition to…
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Blog Post
2021 Year in Review
The CivicMakers team is committed to continuously reflecting and learning from our work. For the past few years, we’ve tried…
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A resource library for sharing our tools with you
To our community of civic designers–and our community members who don't yet see themselves as designers–we're excited to announce the…
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EVENTS
CivicMakers started as a meetup group, and we still host as many community events, trainings and other learning opportunities as we can.
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New Year, New Brand, Same CivicMakers: A Community Celebration!
CivicMakers launches our new brand and website, and celebrates the talented community of civic design partners who helped get us…
January 13 @ 5:00 pm
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RESOURCES LIBRARY
Tools and resources,
from our work for yours
We’ve learned so much from our community, and we want to return the favor. Our Resource Library features some of the tools and resources that we use most often in our work. Each has been used, iterated and improved upon through numerous client projects. We hope you find them useful for your own work. If you have questions, or would like to see other tools or resources, drop us a line!
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Stakeholder Identification
Last Updated: November, 2021 A key step to engaging the humans in human-centered design is identifying your stakeholders. This framework…
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Data Synthesis Plan
Last Updated: November, 2021 Telling a clear and defensible story with your insights is essential to transforming data into meaningful…
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Journey Mapping
Last Updated: November, 2021 Think of the journey map as a glorified table that helps you map different types of…
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Communications Strategy & Messaging Guidelines
Last Updated: November, 2021 When engaging stakeholders (whether it be the general public, partners, staff, etc.), it is important to…
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