(Photo credit: Team Lihue Lines Phoebe White, Ariel Dungca, Lynn Mayekawa, Kristyn Yamamotoya)
To help Kauaʻi and Honolulu counties respond to the challenges and opportunities that emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Hawaiʻi Community Design Center (
UHCDC) and
ISR) hosted a week-long Mayors’ Institute Design Tank that gathered planning and design teams from three universities. “Design Tank” is a hybrid problem-solving process developed by
UHCDC to integrate stakeholder and community engagement with proof-of-concept design inquiry, offering client institutions additional tools to define, prioritize, and plan capital development and improvements.
UH Mānoa design tank participants included