As part of the planning process we are developing Themes and Goals and Topics around which the interpretation and exhibiting of maritime heritage can be created. This structure o f this chain of ideas outlined below goes from broad, big ideas to the specific and implementable.
Themes: Big ideas, Overall goals to be communicated.
Goals: What we want the communication with the community to accomplish.
Topics: Programs and physical manifestations. (To be determined)
Below you will find the first draft of these themes and goals. We hope that you will consider these ideas and submit you comments and ideas by using the comment button at the bottom of this posting.
Draft Themes:
Big Idea: Union of communities around the lake.
Draft Theme: A diverse community tied together by lake.
Big Idea: Union of experiences across time.
Draft Theme: A vital part of the history of the city and its development can be traced to the changes over time at Lake Union
Big Idea: Union of land and water (Maritime)
Draft Theme: In a city made up of water and land, Lake Union was/is a critical part of moving people and things around.
Big Idea: Union of human and natural world
Draft Theme: We have a choice of how to care for our lake and its surroundings.
Draft Goals:
- Relax have fun and be enriched by the information they learn. (feel welcomed)
- Do activities that spark their interest in the messages we want to convey
- Take advantage of physical site lines and gain insight to present and historic places an events
- Make personal connection to the community, to the past, and to shaping the future.
- Be invited to learn maritime skills
- Have their experience at Lake Union Park extended by the interpretive stations(make the park bigger than it is physically)
Download a PDF file of these Draft Themes:
(Lake Union History Themes DRAFT Feb 23.PDF 88kb)
