ABSTRACT
Community design and engagement processes, especially in service-learning projects, rely on methods for eliciting information about communities in off-site (i.e., remote) group settings and not always in the physical locations of the places where physical change or revitalization will occur. Tools and techniques range from discussions and interviews to mapping and the use of design models to visioning exercises intended to gather perceptions of proposed community changes. In many cases, these forms of engagement happen in public meeting and workshop settings. The designers and planners in these settings ask community stakeholders to recall information about a place by providing prompts to encourage constructive community dialogue.
