Co-design Dashboard Pilot

To showcase Rochester Area's Co-design projects and to track the progress toward implementing their recommendations.

Confirmed: OpenBeam

Potential: City of Rochester, MN ; County of Olmsted, MN ; DMC EDA

Age-Friendly Olmsted County (AFOC) Plan ; America's City for Health ; Building Out Community Mobilization Resources Coalition ; Developing and Executing on Cradle to Career Plan ; Rochester Vision 2050

A sample of collection of Beam-aware Community Co-design Reports including:

Discovery Walk, Child Care, Equity in Built Environment, Food access, etc

Learn more on Dashboard Beam.

October 2, 2023 City Council Study Session; September Co-design Meeting (Co-Design Preparation Guide, Pilot Co-Design Dashboard) 

Public realm along the 2nd Avenue corridor from 2nd Street to 6th Street (Soldiers Field.)

Confirmed: City of Rochester, MN ; County of Olmsted, MN ; DMC EDA ; Diversity Council ; Mayo Clinic ; Mortenson ; Olmsted County Public Health Services ; OpenBeam ; RSP ; Rochester Area Family Y ; Rochester Public Library ; Rochester Public Schools ; United Way of Southeast Minnesota ; Well Living Lab (A Delos and Mayo Clinic collaboration)

Potential: Lotus Health Foundation

America's City for Health ; Community Health Assessment Process ; DMC Discovery Square ; Destination Medical Center (DMC) ; Discovery Square One ; Education, Health and Recreation Space (DMC UMR/Rec sub-district) ; Residence at Discovery Square (Third Ave Lofts Residence at Discovery Square) ; Rochester Y Community Health Living Index Assessment (CHLI) ; Rochester, MN Transit Development Plan Update ; University of Minnesota, Rochester Master Plan

As a member of the Community for Health Steering Committee and piloting the use of co-designing in the Discovery Walk project, OpenBeam participated in developing the Community Co-Design Toolkit as a guide for other community projects to consider and adopt a co-design process to maximize inclusive engagement. 

March 2021 DMCC approval for Bid

Summary of Co-design of Discovery Walk and Codify the co-design process. 

 Meeting material from Jan. meeting:

Macro and micro expected outcomes of the project. 

First pass at co-designer list -- Convening Co-designers

Started first as a mayoral initiative to apply and leverage the knowledge and learning from Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Program (that offers leadership and management training to mayors and city leaders) to affecting organizational change and to foster city leaders' professional growth and the advancement of key capabilities within Rochester metro area which leads to Rochester being a finalist for the 2021 Global Mayors Challenge.

Confirmed: City of Rochester, MN ; Community Development Department (Formerly Rochester-Olmsted Planning Department) ; County of Olmsted, MN ; Diversity Council ; OpenBeam

Potential: Community Mobilization Resource Coalition (CMRC) ; Community Networking Group (CNG) ; DMC EDA

America's City for Health ; Destination Medical Center (DMC) ; Targeted Business Enterprise Utilization ; Update Intercultural Cities Initiative (ICI) Index

1. Part of Feb 26, 2024 City Council Study Session on DEI: Presentation Slides include actions and measures to City Council Study Session and Link to City Council video 

2. Career Opportunities for Women of Color

1. PB Reporting Empowering 11th-grade students

2. Trade Readiness: Message from program manager and program flyers; Trades Readiness Certificate program

3. Video recording at Jan 10. 2024 Equity Alliance Talk 

4. Star Tribune Feb 17, 2024 Reporting

(1) December 2022, Featuring Chao Mwatela, DEI Director, Rochester, MN (2) Bloomberg News (local infrastructure Hub (3) Keep it local grant recognized by Bloomberg

 (1) Updates to Feb. 2022 DMCC Board; 

(2) 2022-01-18 Press Release City of Rochester Winner;

(3) September 2021 DMC Presentation;

(4) References: 90 Second Pitch Video, Public Media