Founded in 2010, Visiones Collaborativas, or Collaborative Visions is a New Mexico-based 501(c) 3 corporation created to serve the people and the watershed of Mora county and the surrounding Sangre de Cristo bioregion.
Plaza Design Charette, Saturday, February 15, 2025
A design charrette is a collaborative meeting where people from different backgrounds and disciplines work together to develop a design or vision for a project.
As you probably know, Visiones Collaborativas-Collaborative Visions has been working the past year gathering input from Mora residents and stakeholders on the planning and design of the Mora Plaza Nueva Project.
As we move into the new year, VC-CV is going into the final phase of preliminary planning for this project and we need your help! Please join us on Saturday, February 15th to take part in the Mora Plaza Nueva Design Charette. This event is an opportunity to establish community priorities for the design, physical elements, and services to be included in the Mora Plaza Nueva.
The Charette is held from 9:00am to 3:30pm in the Distance Learning Center the the Helping Hands Building (where Guadalupe Credit Union is, across from Family Dollar). Sign in starts at 8:30 with light breakfast, lunch is provided to all participants.
In person attendance is limited to 35, so please register here as soon as possible
Visiones Collaborativas-Collaborative Visions staff and volunteers spent Labor Day weekend talking with Mora folks about the Mora Plaza Nueva Project. Forty-six citizens completed our survey at our booths in La Cueva and Wagon Mound, and we spoke with scores more. We send a special thanks to our friends at the 100% Mora Initiative, with whom we shared spaced at Wagon Mound Bean Day!
Here are a couple of the insights the survey yielded –
These two images illustrate the importance of community input in this planning process, and the need to center the community as we design and build Mora Plaza Nueva.
We have more opportunities coming during the next few months for Mora citizens to give us their thoughts about community wants and needs for Mora Plaza Nueva. Please follow us on Facebook, Instagram, or sign up to get on our mailing list. You can also look for more information on public bulletin boards and other places where Mora meets.
Labor Day is here and that means this weekend we’ll be celebrating the historic mills of Mora County and enjoying the rodeo and eating the famous barbecue and pinto beans in Wagon Mound.
Visiones Colaborativas-Collaborative Visions will be out again offering up information about the Mora Plaza Nueva Project and offering opportunities for you to give your thoughts about what you think the Plaza should include.
We’ll be at La Cueva Mill on Saturday, August 31 from 10:30 am to 3:00 pm. Take a few minutes during your mills tour to give us your opinion. On Monday, September 2, we’ll have a booth at the 114th annual Wagon Mound Bean Day along with our friends from the 100% Mora Initiative. Come out and enjoy the parade and the barbecue and learn about the great things happening in Mora County!
No time this weekend? Please take a few minutes take our survey The Mora Plaza Nueva Project has the potential to become a true community anchor spot, but that’s only possible if as many Mora community members as possible take the time to tell us what is wanted and needed.
Here are a few responses from our earlier survey –
The Visiones Collaborativas-Collaborative Visions team had a great time meeting folks during Mora Fiestas 2024. Not only did we get to team up with our friends from the 100% Mora Initiative, we got to talk with dozens of Moreños about the Mora Plaza Nueva Project!
One concern we heard was that Mora Plaza Nueva would compete with or duplicate the Mora County Veterans’ Memorial Plaza. Rest assured, the two projects complement each other. We whole-heartedly support the Veterans’ Memorial and are taking great care we do not duplicate the efforts of the County and the Mora Creative Council in style and scope of the Memorial.
If you have done so already, take a few minutes to take the survey linked at the bottom of this post. It only takes about 5 minutes to complete. If you need to know a little more, check out this page https://visionescollaborativas.org/plaza-nueva-project/
More than 65 Mora community members and stakeholders have given Visiones Collaborativas-Collaborative Visions their thoughts about the Mora Plaza Nueva Project. In a perfect world, we’d hear from everybody in the community, so we are going to continue reaching out and asking for your opinions.
Learn More about the Plaza Nueva and Voice Your Ideas on this Proposed Recovery Project
Come join us for one of the Mora Plaza Nueva Community Meetings! These in-person events are an opportunity to connect with your neighbors and share your ideas about community resilience and long-term recovery.
