Children’s Museum in Easton Charrette

COG designers, museum staff and board members, and community participants explored the site of a new Outdoor Learning Center.  A day-long community design workshop encouraged creative brainstorming for the project.  


The Children’s Museum in Easton is located in a 100-year-old fire house.  The site of the new Outdoor Learning Center (OLC) is in the foreground.

Children’s Museum staff, board members, volunteers, and COG designers met in July 2005 for a day-long design workshop to brainstorm ideas for the OLC.  Museum director Paula Peterson (center) describes the museum’s vision for the space.  

Each design team included museum staff, COG designers, and community members.  Team 1:  Dennis Carboni, facilitator and landscape designer; landscape designers Viola Augustin and Kath Holland; Pam Borbely, museum staff; Andrea Cady, museum staff; Joe Richard, Easton Water Department; Nancy Cohenno, Easton Garden Club member.

Team 2: Jan Childs, facilitator and landscape designer; landscape designers Margery Stegman, Susan Pashman, and Beth Ranahan; Steve Hill, Children’s Museum Operations Director; Deborah Sovinee, community member.

Team 3: Ginnie Norman, facilitator and landscape designer; landscape designers Ferrell Mackey and Carol Spitzer; Steve Keohane, Children’s Museum Development Director; Ruth Riske, Children’s Museum Board of Directors member; Darya Cotter, Easton Garden Club president.

Design Workshop Moments

 
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