MASITE - SEPTA & Connect the Dots SEPTA and Connect the Dots explored this topic in a presentation about engagement best practices from the ongoing Reimagining Regional Rail project. This starts by defining engagement values and goals, working with the client to determine the appropriate tools...
The below article, Lessons From Transportation Planners' Pivot to Virtual Engagement, was originally published in the American Planning Association Magazine on October 1st. It was written by Marisa Denker of Connect the Dots and Adrienne Zicklin Kanter of Stokes Creative Group in collaboration with leaders...
Have you joined the Bus Revolution?! Connect the Dots is hard at work alongside SEPTA, Nelson Nygaard, Portfolio Associates, and Merit on SEPTA’s Bus Revolution -- a comprehensive redesign of SEPTA’s entire bus network to make buses more reliable, efficient, and simpler to understand and use....
Connect the Dots founder and director Marisa Denker will be teaching a course at the University of Pennsylvania this fall: Participatory Cities. Participatory Cities will explore how neighborhoods, stakeholders, and other players contribute to cities, as well as how engagement can be designed to bridge...
We think data for civic engagement can help us figure it out We at the Edit the City! team (Marisa Denker/Connect the Dots Insights, Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman/THINK.urban and Stephen Larrick/Stae) have been working hard behind the scenes thanks to an award from the Knight Foundation’s Data for...
Connect the Dots is super excited to be part of the engagement team, along with Portfolio Associates and Merit, to officially launch this once-a-generation undertaking: a total reimagination of SEPTA’s bus network! SEPTA Forward: Bus Revolution needs feedback from all riders to create more accessible...
In anticipation of National Women’s History Month in March, and owing to the fact that Connect the Dots is a proudly founded by Marisa Denker, we wanted to take the opportunity to showcase some of our favorite female activators, collaborators, and all around civic powerhouses....
On September 15th, Naomi Murphy of our team at Connect the Dots joined a panel of experts for Next City’s International Wellbeing Cities Forum The discussion centered on the "DIY City: The Power of Public Participation & Engagement." The conversation was moderated by Orlando Bailey: Director of...
This week at the B.PHL innovation fest, Connect the Dots’ Marisa Denker and Navigate’s Brady Halligan moderated a panel focused on “Designing How We Work Together,” which brought together perspectives on this topic from a $6B health system, the team spearheading innovation for the sixth-largest...
Description of Event Connect the Dots teamed up with the world-renowned Project for Public Spaces to share learnings and build best practice around reimagining engagement and consultation during this time. PPS is leader in public space development and placemaking having completed projects in more than 3,500...