A client meeting and midterm in one week! And we’re still in week three!
Wednesday, we had our second client meeting of the term. It was held in a small building near our site in Springfield. Present at the meeting:
Meghan Murphy – Our contact at the city, from the Environmental Services Department
Amy Chinitz – Our contact with the Springfield Utility Board
Matt Stouder – Springfield Public Works Engineer
Rachel Chilton – Public Information & Education Specialist
Ed Naylor – Springfield Schools’ Facilities’ Maintenance
Janet Beckman – Brattain House Manager
The meeting could not have gone better. We presented all of the material we have been working this term, which up until now has been coming up with strategies on how to achieve our clients’ goals, namely the education and demonstration of storm water management. Our goal was to get the go ahead from our clients to move the project into the design development stage.
And: we got the go ahead!
Everyone seemed happy, excited, and anxious to see the project move forward.
Today, after only a single day turnaround, we were back at the review boards, this time with several professors and one former graduate student, Howard Davis, Otto Poticha, Erin Moore, and Jonathan Chesley.
The review also went well. Our ideas were sanctioned with most of the critique going towards thoughts and ideas to make the project more integrated and simpler, and still achieve all of the clients’ goals.
The big push forward will now be the sharpening of ideas, the crystallization of designs, the paring of excess. How do we bridge the oft divided extremes, the artistic and the technical, the beauty and the science, into a single, inseparable whole.
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