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Framing
How to support what you have decided to do
Framing Model & Procedures for Framing, Methods Manual, pp 24-25.
Framing is to secure the support of people within communities, groups, organizations, and formal structures in order to move toward a successful project. It is often used to open an arena of authorization or funding for a project.
Accelerate Neighborhood Climate Action is a nonprofit organization launched by Denver ICA colleagues to ramp up place-based citizen involvement in climate change mitigation. The project has required careful framing across the Denver Metro with other climate-related organizations as well as for each neighborhood. See Applications and Results in the Resources section for an example from these events.
Gridding
Gridding is a way to see rational patterns and relationships in geography. It is a process for becoming familiar with geography by walking the boundaries and internal arteries (streets or paths) and noting what is seen and then drawing a map. Gridding helps a group to form a consensus about responsibility for a particular geography. The documents below explain the underlying depth and value of the process as well as clear instructions on how to do it.
Gridding Geography Using the Artform Method, attributed to Larry Phibrook, ICA Taiwan,
Methods Manual – Historial Document, Gridding p.16
Teaching Gridding, attributed to Ann Avery, United Kingdom, 2008
Then There is the Job of Gridding, a paper written from Manual of Model Building, Ecumenical Institute, undated (probably late ‘60’s or early ‘70’s)
Gridding can be applied beyond a neighborhood by symbolically creating the reality for a city, a region, a state, a nation, or the globe. See the samples below.
