Browse Content: storytelling, Municipality

The New Orleans Survivor Council Story Circles were a meeting facilitation tool used in a larger grassroots effort to organize community members and ensure that post-disaster efforts met the needs of all those affected.

Starksboro, Vermont is working to balance a growing population with a rural lifestyle. The Art & Soul project used storytelling and a series of community arts projects to engage citizens and identify common values that can guide planning decisions.

This Emmy Award winning documentary series, run by the New York Times, shares the lives of everyday New Yorkers through pictures and audio, allowing locals to tell their unique stories in their own words.

The Why Here Why Now project collects and publishes multimedia interviews from community members in Yellow Springs, Ohio in an attempt to increase engagement and collaboration among the town’s increasingly polarized population.

Biddeford is an old mill city working to reinvent itself through a downtown master planning project, using the Heart & Soul Community Planning approach.

When Damariscotta residents came face-to-face with a community-changing development proposal, they used Heart & Soul Community Planning to identify common values and adapt to growth without losing local character and traditions.

Drawn by the striking landscapes and open space, people are flocking to Victor, whose population since 2000 has swelled by 73%. Residents are now using Heart & Soul Community Planning to build bridges and hold on to the town’s unique character.

Urban Earth: (re)Presenting our Habitat is a film project aimed at displaying cities as they are. The films portray the realities of urban life by creating films from photos taken every 8 steps on walks through cities.