The Yes! House
2018-2019



The Yes! House

Granite Falls, Minnesota


PARTNERS
Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership
Department of Public Transformation

FUNDER
ArtPlace America

Collaborative work as Homeboat


Working as the design collective Homeboat, we led an open, inclusive, collaborative exploration of what a community-oriented building could be in downtown Granite Falls, Minnesota, a town settled on Dakota land now bordering the Upper Sioux community. This creative community design/build process spans from discovery to implementation and centers on community-created solutions and culturally inclusive futures. 

During a six month period, we spent 200 hours on-site doing neighbor-to-neighbor outreach and hosting intergenerational engagement events. We translated our findings, community resources, crowd-sourced suggestions, and potential strategy in a series of reports for the Department of Public Transformation.





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