Report (PDF): Designing Resilient Native Communities
Our overall goal of this Innovation Working Group gathering was to develop a conceptual framework for resiliency as a foundation of community design and planning. Additionally, we identified barriers and opportunities Native communities cope with when working toward resiliency and sustainable design practices. Finally, we established keylong-‐term goals the group sees as essential to establishing a field of knowledge and community of practice around designing resilient Native communities.
On November 1-3, 2012 our group met in Santa Fe, New Mexico and worked for three days toward our goals. Through readings, discussions, and presentations, one-‐on-‐one conversations and reflective exercises we cast a wide net and identified a range of challenges and opportunities. Prior to the gathering the below goals for the IWG were identified:
- Explore relevant concepts and the relationships among cultural, economic, and natural systems in Native communities designing toward resiliency;
- Gain understanding of challenges and opportunities facing change agents and Native communities working to design and build resilient communities;
- Identify knowledge and skill gaps related to designing and building resilient Native communities;
- Create team of inter-‐disciplinary scholars and practitioners engaged along similar lines of research and program development;
- Identify short-‐term opportunities for impact; and
- Set long-‐term goals and working teams.
Santa Fe, NM
November 1-3, 2012
Activity Lead: Alice Loy
Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship
