Survey on the Practice of Community Engagement

by Eric Higbee, ASLA, PLA

Do you work with communities? What community engagement practices do you use most often? How do you decide? What barriers or opportunities are there for doing more “community building” within your community engagement work?

These are some of the questions I hope to answer through my Survey on the Practice of Community Engagement. I am writing to invite you to take the survey. It takes only a few minutes to complete.

This survey is part of an independent research and writing project. My goal is to garner unique insights into the current practice of community engagement, and with those insights in hand, identify the opportunities to evolve our practices to meet the challenges of our current social era. Stay tuned for a follow-up post in a few months, or sign up for the mailing list through the survey.

Please share this survey link with others. The intended audience is anyone who works with communities: landscape architects, planners, architects, consultants, government or nonprofit program managers, policy makers, community organizers, and more! A promotional graphic for your posting can be found here.

And there’s a prize! A few lucky randomly selected survey participants are to receive a free book from Island Press Books, a non-profit book publisher with amazing books on the built and natural environments.

Eric Higbee, PLA, ASLA, is a landscape architect, writer, researcher, and teacher residing at the intersection of placemaking and community building. His writings and research on community engagement, society, and place-based communities are published regularly on his blog, The Answer is Community. Eric practices as a principal landscape architect at Convene, and teaches as an Affiliate Faculty member at the University of Washington Department of Landscape Architecture.