Community-Centered Design 101: Regenerative Governance

Guest Speaker: Alexandra Payne

Join 3×3 for a lively gathering around the challenges, myths, and joys of practicing community-centered design.

We’ve created this recurring gathering space for emerging and established practitioners to connect, learn, and support each other in their use of community-centered design. We welcome all professional backgrounds and experience levels — no prior training or knowledge of community-centered design needed!

Takeaways

Learn more about the core values and applications of community-centered design and hold space for discussion, story- and skill-sharing, and networking! You will walk away with:

An understanding of the lineage and evolution of community-centered design in practice;
A set of core mindsets and values that you can apply to your community-centered practice;
Exposure to fellow practitioners to share challenges, resources, and inspiration;
Pathways to deepen and evolve your practice through more advanced training opportunities and other resources.

Format

This online event will be a combination of a CC101 overview and a guest speaker presentation, followed by an open discussion. A custom Zoom link will be sent to your inbox once you are registered and approved.

Guest Speaker

Alexandra Payne is a food systems and development strategist with Amplify Consulting with over 15 years of experience advancing equity-centered solutions across philanthropy, public policy, and community-led development. With a background in urban and regional planning, policy, and community cohesion, she has led place-based initiatives that increase multi-stakeholder partnerships, strengthen local governance and more build resilient, inclusive systems. Her work focuses on regenerative food systems transition, values-based public procurement, and the intersection of food and health across the urban-rural spectrum, with a strong emphasis on community capacity building, peer learning networks, and locally-driven implementation across both U.S. cities and global regions.

You can read more about Alexandra and her work on her LinkedIn.

Facilitators

Megan Marini is co-founder and principal at 3×3, where she oversees 3×3’s creative planning work, focusing on practical applications of systems thinking to develop design strategies for urban needs.

Thomas Bond is an engagement and communications designer at 3×3 and an advocate for social change who believes that all people are designers in their own right. With a deep commitment to community engagement, Thomas prioritizes working alongside communities to foster mutual aid, shared knowledge, and empowerment.

About 3×3

Drawing from over a decade of experience developing methods that center communities in design, policy, and planning decisions, this event is part of a larger learning series for teams to integrate critical reflection and collaboration into their everyday work.

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