This Month: Hub in the time of COVID By Karen Gingras, Director of Neighbourhood Development at Edmonton CDC We are excited to announce that, in early July, the first session in the Fraser Community Hub integrated design process (IPD) was completed. As you might recall form last month’s HUBdate, IPD is a novel, collaborative approach…
This Month: Introducing the Integrated Design Process By Karen Gingras, Director of Neighbourhood Development at Edmonton CDC Welcome to the first edition of Fraser HUBdates, a blog series from the Edmonton Community Development Company aimed at keeping friends and neighbours of the Fraser Community Hub project updated on the latest stages of development. Projects like the Fraser Hub depend on the…
By Mark Holmgren, Executive Director of Edmonton CDC When it became clear that COVID-19 required self-isolation and social distancing, the Edmonton CDC immediately turned its attention to how to adapt to the new normal. We closed our offices and instituted restrictions on staff and operations. We immediately got to work on moving the Social Enterprise…
Posting by Karen Gingras, Director of Neighbourhood Development Having been raised on a small farm in northeastern Alberta, I associate vacant land with fields that produce food for people and animals. Oddly enough, the land in Fraser has always been a field. Houses were built around it, yet the land remained vacant even after the…
The Edmonton CDC does not charge neighbourhoods for community engagement work on its projects, but there are groups who have inquired about us offering community engagement on a fee basis. We are already in discussions with a few groups interested in this assistance and we have decided to create this consultancy to bring our style…
posting by Karen Gingras There are various strategies for involving people in land development and at the Edmonton Community Development Company, we are taking instruction from people who reside in neighbourhoods to create effective community engagement. For example, while data provides us with valuable information, understanding a neighbourhood’s history and culture is often best sourced…
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