Creating
a timeline for your project
Use this list to
create a large moveable timeline for your wall. Cut out or write the steps in
the design process. Put them on a large piece of paper, along with the date you
began each step. Put drawings, photographs, and examples of your work under
each section.
1. Organizing
a. Meet with
students, teachers, custodian, neighbors
b. Create your
design team
c. Decide what you
need to know
d. Learn what you
can and can't do
e. Plan your budget
and timeline
f. Train adults,
teenagers, and kids
g. Select your site,
project, or theme
2. Fact finding
a. Study your site
(perimeter, sun/shade, soil)
Visit your site. Study site
conditions and people
Study your site's perimeter. Find
& make maps of your site.
Study rain, puddles, and drains
Study sun and shade
b. Find or make maps
and a base model of your site
Make maps with perimeter
measurements
Make maps from memory of site
conditions & how people use it
c. Study people near
your site and people who will use it
Decide who to survey and interview
Write survey questions
d. Study people's
current use and desires for the design
Organize survey answers
Observe people using the site
e. Learn about
neighborhood and citywide resources
Visit parks and playgrounds
Interview experts for design principles
Find community groups to use your new site & help with your project
3. Generating design ideas
a. Make drawings and
lists of design ideas
b. Make moveable
model pieces of design ideas
c. Generate design
ideas on the model
4. Creating a design
a. Create design
ideas on the model
b. Negotiate over
designs
c. Create designs
the team agrees to and present
them to the community and owner of the land
5. Building the new design
Plan a construction
timeline
Plan community
construction and professional construction
Create what your team
has designed & create programs in it