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APRIL 1, 2022 — Editor’s take note: The pursuing concept was despatched nowadays by using electronic mail from ITC Steering Committee Co-Chairs Sabrina Casas-Avila and Carlos Martinez:
Thank you for your ongoing support of UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures (ITC), an institute that presents voices to the exclusive ordeals of people and their cultures throughout Texas. As we search in advance to the up coming 50 decades of the ITC less than our ITC Centennial 2068 Community Stakeholder Visioning exertion, we remain completely dedicated to preserving and endorsing the ITC’s tremendous property when earning the experience even much more available and compelling for the local community, so future generations of Texans can just take in its rich cultural tapestry for a long time to come.
We compose to give an update, share system and timelines, and attract your focus to the resources and reviews that are informing the do the job in the last leg of the visioning procedure by the Steering Committee—comprised of topic make a difference professionals, educators, area business enterprise proprietors, and community leaders. As their function progresses, it is essential the group is aware that its perspectives and strategies are immensely valued and can even now be regarded as and incorporated at any place in the ongoing visioning approach.
ITC Centennial 2068 Neighborhood Stakeholder Visioning Process & Timeline
In 2021, the college embarked on a sturdy ITC Centennial 2068 visioning and local community engagement approach to visualize the subsequent 50 many years of the ITC, the only useful resource in Texas entirely devoted to our state’s rich cultural heritage. To make sure the visioning method was informed by voices all through the neighborhood, stakeholders from across San Antonio ended up invited to participate in endeavor forces and a steering committee to floor the perform in numerous factors of view and experiences. Museum, improvement, and land use industry experts were being also engaged to tell the get the job done of just about every of the 3 structured groups.
In April / May perhaps 2021, 3 Task Forces—one for each topical place of curiosity for the ITC—and Steering Committee membership were introduced and released in June 2021. UTSA also engaged Lopez Negrete Communications (LNC) to facilitate the local community engagement course of action, which included four professional panels, the advancement of the Strategic Price and Ease of Execution criteria and weights, and the neighborhood study. In August / September 2021, the Undertaking Forces and Steering Committee convened for the initially time and held local community discussions, which will continue on by the conclusion of the visioning method. At that time, the Job Forces completed the ideation period with LNC and moved into the future period of getting ready final suggestions for the Steering Committee. In January / February 2022, Job Forces submitted their recommendation stories and invited even further local community conversation via survey.
The Steering Committee is actively conference and collaborating with experts and companions to share thoughts on how to synthesize the recommendations of the Endeavor Forces—while continuing to integrate local community suggestions and expert resources—to establish feasible eventualities for the long term of the ITC to present to UTSA leadership in early summertime.
*Process Force stories and group study outcomes are out there for general public critique on the ITC Centennial 2068: Community Stakeholder Visioning internet site and are in-depth additional under.
Group Engagement & Comments
From the onset of the visioning process, UTSA prioritized engaging a diverse, experienced team of group leaders and stakeholders to provide on the task forces and steering committee. The ITC serves our local community in so numerous ways— educating, informing, and celebrating the rich cultural mosaic of our point out that continues to alter and evolve dynamically with new generations of Texans—and the voices of every San Antonian subject as we perform to build a museum of the upcoming. At many points in the visioning approach, UTSA extensively issued invitations to get involved by way of neighborhood surveys to seize comments that would then be included into the visioning process and perform of every single of the organized groups.
Success from the first two surveys can be discovered on the ITC visioning site. A 3rd chance for feedback will be conducted in the coming months to cap off the get the job done by the Steering Committee.
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- Local community Study 1
- Community Study 2
- *Upcoming group engagement chances – UTSA is planning additional alternatives for the local community to engage with and take part in sharing tips and feedback on the ongoing visioning process. These dates and options will be publicly shared in the coming months.



Process Pressure Membership & Leadership
The Undertaking Forces, composed of several neighborhood leaders with diverse knowledge, were asked to draw on particular person backgrounds and ordeals to create a established of suggestions that address the ITC Centennial 2068 concerns in the adhering to concentration places: Museum of the Future, Group Engagement and Sustaining Support, and Facility and Land Stewardship. Of take note, each and every Task Power integrated authorities from throughout several industries to assure wealthy and varied collaboration and discussion.
Undertaking Drive membership can be found on the ITC Visioning web-site:
Endeavor Force reports can be observed on the ITC Visioning site:
Skilled Sources & Assistance
To complement the enter of neighborhood associates, UTSA also engaged a wide team of issue issue gurus to provide as a resource to the Activity Forces. These skilled resources contributed to the discussions and broadened the perspectives that informed the visioning method for the Activity Forces and keep on to aid information the Steering Committee.
One particular these kinds of resource is the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Advisory Expert services Panel, a team of unbiased countrywide authorities that were engaged to take a look at placemaking and stewardship of the museum’s Hemisfair site. ULI is identified as a person of North America’s most revered and widely quoted resources of objective information and facts on city planning, advancement, and advancement. ULI was recently, and notably, engaged with the regional Hemisfair Visioning process as an expert source to tutorial the site’s ongoing advancement, and in comparable projects across the US.
As soon as engaged with UTSA, and based mostly on prior encounters with nearby entities, ULI’s panel interviewed a variety of neighborhood customers to immerse themselves in the local views of what the museum at the moment implies to residents and what it could ultimately become. ULI’s partnership and report on important parts of thought for the foreseeable future of the ITC resulted in expansive insight for both the Endeavor Forces and Steering Committee to consider though ideating all-around what the ITC of the long term could be.
The ULI report, paired with other pro resources like an accreditation assessment by museum organizing consultant Marcy Goodwin, has assisted, and will keep on to help, inform the broader visioning course of action. Notably, Marcy Goodwin’s museum setting up consulting workforce 1st produced an accreditation evaluation in 2010, and her most current evaluation builds on her ongoing investigation on the feasibility of the current Texas Pavilion setting up conference the American Alliance of Museum accreditation standards—the regarded standard of excellence in the United States. Supplemental expert reports utilized by the Undertaking Forces and Steering Committee include things like: Assessment of the Likely to Relocate the Institute of Texan Cultures, prepared by B. Meyerson Consulting, LLC Exhibition Learn Approach, geared up by The Museum Follow ITC Educational Evaluation, well prepared by Dr. Daniel Gelo, Dr. Mac West and Mr. Charlie Walter and, ITC Assumptions by the ITC Advisory Council, chaired by Dr. G.P. Singh.
Furthermore, different field companions, museum experts and small business leaders from across the town, state and place have participated in and collaborated with the Endeavor Forces and Steering Committee. Various this kind of professionals contain Dr. Jude Valdez, retired Vice President for Community Solutions at UTSA, and Wellington “Duke” Reiter, FAIA architect and urban designer, and a Senior Adviser to the President at Arizona State University. Forthcoming shows contain participation from Kate Rogers, Govt Director of the Alamo Trust, Inc, and Marise McDermott, President/CEO of The Witte.
All specialist studies, panel video clips and other assets can be identified on the ITC Visioning internet site.
Honoring the Past & Searching Forward
The ITC’s history in San Antonio runs deep—in fact, quite a few of us have vivid childhood reminiscences discovering the facility and displays from our K-12 faculty yrs. The ITC’s profound affect on our metropolis and point out is appreciated, and our Steering Committee is fully commited to making eventualities that not only respect the Institute’s earlier, but also generate methods for the Institute to spotlight the evolving cultures that continue on to condition San Antonio and Texas.
We invite you to continue to be educated and engaged with the ITC Centennial 2068 Neighborhood Stakeholder Visioning Approach as we continue to produce the thoughts that will condition the scenarios that will be introduced to UTSA’s management in the coming months. We motivate you to stop by the ITC Centennial 2068 site to study a lot more, inquire concerns and post comments on the perform that has been accomplished and on the operate that is however in development.
UTSA is steadfast in honoring the legacy of the ITC as effectively as effectively carrying the museum perfectly into the upcoming as a dedication to the local community, town and condition. We look forward to incorporating your suggestions as we do the job to develop a museum of the upcoming of which we all can be really very pleased.
