On-Demand Webinar

Urban Design + Digital Dialogue: Unlocking Meaningful Community Engagement

Educational Credit: 0.5 (APA AICP CM)  


What does it take to bring more voices into the urban design process so decisions reflect lived experience and lead to more equitable, community-driven outcomes?

In this 30-minute webinar, we unpack what’s working and why in building more inclusive, effective public engagement in urban planning and design today.

Led by Social Pinpoint Practice Leads Martina Wolf Battistone and Sophia Robison, this webinar spotlights five standout projects — from Santa Fe to Honolulu — that show how accessible, well-designed digital approaches can build trust, surface meaningful input, and lead to better outcomes. You’ll leave with real-world strategies, practical tools, and actionable insights you can apply directly to your own engagement work.

Key takeaways:

  • Proven approaches for engaging diverse communities in long-term planning
  • Tactics for making online discussions around urban design more inclusive and effective
  • Tools that capture meaningful input (and what makes them work)
  • Lessons learned from five leading digital engagement initiatives across North America
Lots of great tips packed into a bite sized bit of time - pace was excellent and content very interesting.
Great info packed into a short session.
Great webinar! Very thorough. Examples were easy to follow.
Practice Lead | Social Pinpoint

Martina Wolf Battistone

As North America Practice Lead at Social Pinpoint, Marti supports and cultivates best practices in online community engagement within the public and non-profit sectors. Previously, Marti worked as Principal Environmental Planner at the City of Pittsburgh, which received the 2024 IAP2 USA Core Values Award for Organization of the Year. As a member of the Department of City Planning’s Sustainability and Resilience Division, Marti led park planning across the city, working to create long-term visions and investment strategies that reflected resident priorities in parks and open spaces.

Practice Lead | Social Pinpoint

Sophia Robison

As North America Practice Lead at Social Pinpoint, Sophia Robison supports and builds a community of best practice in public engagement within the public and non-profit sectors, particularly as it relates to the use of digital technology. Previously, Sophia worked in local government, with the City of Pittsburgh's Department of City Planning and as an Economic Development Planner for the Town of Brookline, MA. She graduated from Cornell University where she received a Master of City and Regional Planning in 2017, and continued training with the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2).

Thank you to our sponsors. AICP CM credit is available from the APA.

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