Quality Communities Retreat
The Quality Communities Retreat is a special pilot of a new, intimate and technical assistance format for community leaders. Held in two sessions, it is a cohort of four communities attending a one-day retreat to gain project specific advice from an interdisciplinary panel of professionals.
During this one-day retreat, the four Community Delegations joined creative forces with the IQC team, and a resource team of interdisciplinary planning and design professionals. The retreat featured a facilitated session focusing on each community, during which the participants offered project-specific advice, best practices, examples, and conceptual guidance. After the meeting, the IQC team prepared this meeting summary that covers key takeaways from the discussion on each community project, including sketches, diagrams, maps, photographs, and renderings as needed to illustrate discussion points. Also there is a how-to guide to assist in implementation of all these concepts.
The Quality Communities Retreat builds on IQC’s experience hosting a regional session of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD) in 2019. MICD is a national initiative of the US Conference of Mayors and National Endowment for the Arts, which follows a similar retreat format to equip mayors with knowledge of design principles and best practices related to projects they are pursuing.
The two sessions of the retreat were held on Monday, November 9th, 2020 (Session I), and Wednesday, November 18th (Session II), in Norman.