Corsica’s Storyboard

Learn more at designsd.org!

The Corsica Commercial Club will host a FREE informational gathering for the whole community on April 24th, with design:SD team members on hand to answer questions about the process. Stay tuned for details!

The event. Design South Dakota is a new way to help rural communities create a better future by design. In May, 2007, a team of design and community development professionals will spend four intense days (called a design “charrette”) working with the people in the Corsica region to gather and illustrate local ideas. The event will help us to build a shared vision for the future, and to demonstrate ways to turn those ideas into reality in our regional community.

Corsica will become the first ever Design South Dakota community. The event will be talked about all over the state, as we help celebrate 150 years of the American Institute of Architects, and Corsica’s history and future by design.

The team. 20-30 professionals from all walks of design and community development will come to Corsica to work on the design:SD team. These volunteers from all over our state care about rural places and the future of our state’s small communities. They will work long and hard together for four days to help the people of Corsica think about and design the future.

And you. The focus of the four-day event will be ideas from local people. The design:SD team will listen to and interact frequently with all of us during the “charrette.” They will build and illustrate our ideas as we go, and make changes along the way based on our input. The event will help the Corsica region to dream about the future, and recognize how important design is to that future. A charrette can bring us together and energize us toward a shared vision–a better way to see our community.

Learn more at designsd.org!

You can see the design:SD flyer by clicking the image below.

Principles of Livable Communities

design:SD is sponsored in part by the American Institute of Architects South Dakota chapter. Learn about AIA’s 10 principles of livable communities by clicking here. These principles will the guiding force behind the design team’s work in Corsica.