Youth and Community Participation in Planning Burke Park

Growing Up Boulder has completed an exciting collaboration with the City of Boulder Parks & Planning and Horizons K-8 School to engage students and community in visioning the design of Burke Park.  GUB assisted with the implementation of a Horizons "Make A Difference" class, a 4-week course from October 22-November 15th, 2012, where students explored their biohabitat, participated in design charrettes and model making, and presented their ideas to the city as a whole.  The project was followed by a CU Environmental Design design/build studio.

For more information, visit the Explorations in Burke Park website.
For related press click here and scroll down to "Children help design Boulder’s Burke Park."
To see how CU's Environmental Design students have integrated ideas into a design/build studio, click here.  And here for related press on the design build process.

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Horizons K-8 Celebrates!!  On September 18, Horizons K-8, the City of Boulder Parks and Recreation, Growing Up Boulder, Great Outdoors Colorado, and CU's Program in Environmental Design celebrated the opening of the playground that was a result of a participatory planning project.  See news of the celebration here or the project's website here.