ABSTRACT
Communities are not built through the making of a thing within a community. They are built around the making of a thing. Meaningful community engagement has the potential to reshape the way a community builds relationships with their members and partners. Community engagement processes directly influence the success of community building and building in a community. This chapter reflects on the challenges and opportunities community members and partners faced as they developed mutual trust, and a sense of shared values and goals, while engaged in a sequence of three community-engaged projects with landscape architecture, architecture, and planning students over a two-year period.
