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insight: change
Change Leadership, Design Strategy, Community Design, Interior Design Process, Library Design, Stakeholder Engagement, Historic Preservation Jenna Walker Change Leadership, Design Strategy, Community Design, Interior Design Process, Library Design, Stakeholder Engagement, Historic Preservation Jenna Walker

insight: change

The space is finished, the layout works, and two weeks after opening the staff are still walking the long way around. That is not a design failure. It is what happens when a building changes faster than the people inside it were prepared for. A look at how change leadership works across every phase of a renovation, and what it costs to skip it.

change leadership in renovation projects

stakeholder engagement for community spaces | staff resistance to renovation | co-design process | change management in design

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insight: One Day Inside a Vacant Church
Historic Preservation, Adaptive Use, Onsite Insight, Design Strategy, Stakeholder Engagement, Community Design Jenna Walker Historic Preservation, Adaptive Use, Onsite Insight, Design Strategy, Stakeholder Engagement, Community Design Jenna Walker

insight: One Day Inside a Vacant Church

A historic church in Benton Harbor sits vacant. Its owner arrived at our June workshop with a full vision for the building and no way to know what any of it would take. Here is what a one day Onsite Insight produced, and why the answer was a sequence rather than a number.

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