Interboro Partners

Big thanks to everyone who joined us for the first beta test of Temperature Check, our new board game about the messy, funny, and all-too-real politics of climate adaptation. In the game, players are a Mayor of a coastal community that has to juggle everything from heatwaves and flooding to development proposals, federal grants, and the ever-rising pressure of public opinion. Over the course of four years in office, players have to make hard calls: should they approve that new hotel to boost the tax base, or invest those funds in a living shoreline? Should they take a bribe from the developers (and risk indictment later), or hold out for a grant that might never come? The game board may be fictional, but the trade-offs aren’t!

In the coming weeks, we’ll be putting the finishing touches on the design.
 

The Resource Expo
Midwest-Tireman Framework Plan
📍Equity Alliance, Detroit, MI

A variety of engagement tools and methods were used throughout the process in order to reach the widest audience possible, and to learn from a broad range of perspectives. For this Framework, resident needs and priorities are synthesized and paired with urban design analysis to form the building blocks of the recommendations. Some of the engagement tools included public meetings, steering committee meetings, focus groups, story booths, podcasts, interagency meetings, phone interviews and surveys, collaborative mapping, roleplaying activities, critical observation, and a resource expo.

The resource expo was a large component of the final public meeting inviting local businesses, nonprofits, farmers, and City agencies to set up tables and share resources and information with residents who attended the meeting.