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Collaboration Lab 2025

In this two-part event, community members gathered to develop ideas for neighborhood projects that foster better relationships with each other, with our more-than-human neighbors, and with broader social and ecological systems.

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We used a Group Concept Mapping (GCM) framework, to brainstorm, organize, and evaluate project ideas.

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Eight themes emerged among the 114 project ideas brainstormed by participants:

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  1. Housing

  2. Green space/green infrastructure

  3. Transportation

  4. Waste reduction/recycling

  5. Sharing economy infrastructure

  6. Community information and engagement

  7. Events

  8. Other

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Group Concept Map

Each point represents a project idea. Each participant organized the ideas into groups of what they saw as related ideas. The more people placed two ideas in the same group, the closer those two points are to each other. Clusters of nearby points are grouped together to identify overall themes.​

Rating

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Participants rated each idea on three scales:

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  • Impact - How many people and actions could the project influence?

  • Feasibility - How challenging would the project be to implement?

  • Personal commitment - How involved would you be willing to be?

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All three scales were rated from 1 to 5, with 5 being the most favorable.

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We calculated the average ratings over all participants for each idea and the average for each theme over all the ideas in the theme.

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Rating patterns by theme

For example, ideas in the Housing theme were seen as having high impact but challenging to implement, and with relatively low personal commitment across all participants. Green space/green infrastructure projects also ranked high on impact and were seen as moderately challenging with many people interested in being more deeply involved.

Explore the Themes

Each theme's page includes a list of all project ideas that were grouped with the theme along with rating data. Themes with active working groups, marked with a green light bulb, also identify volunteer opportunities.

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Help support the Collaboration Lab and other TT-ASAP projects!

The Collaboration Lab events were made possible by a grant from the St. Anthony Park Community Foundation.

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