Community Projects
Remake Talent has a long-term mission to create innovative solutions and alliances that support an equitable and sustainable recovery in the wake of the Almeda Fire. We achieve this through three primary areas: Planning, Activation, and Accountability.
We invite you to use the buttons below to explore the ways we’re working to rebuild our community.
Planning Projects
Remake Talent is focused on expanding capacity within local government planning offices for the immense work of recovery, as well as advocating for upgrades and amendments to our Municipal Code. The goal is to create flexibilities for transitional and long-term housing needs, using the lens of affordability and sustainability. Solid urban planning will lay the groundwork for equitable, innovative, and sustainable redevelopment in the long-term, and is one of the first ways Remake Talent chose to implement its mission. Our Planning Team consists of planning professionals from across the state, land use experts, real estate and GIS professionals, and college interns.
Online Symposiums
Remake Talent and its partners will begin to host online symposiums in the new year to bring together experts in planning and urban design, permaculture
Housing Design Library
Remake Talent is working with local builders, architects, and design firms to create a reference library of code-ready housing designs and floor plans to fast
Create Planning Capacity for the City of Talent
Remake Talent is working to bring together city staff and professional planners interested in assisting with Oregon’s wildfire disaster relief efforts. A collaboration between the
Activation Projects
We are a hands-on organization of builders, fabricators, and artists who are working on creating working prototypes for the type of city we want to live in, enlisting collaboration and feedback from the impacted community, and then ramping up production of what works. More than just ideas, we must begin the real work of affecting change and progress within our communities. To that end, Remake Talent partners with skilled individuals and organizations like the Cascade Builders Association to bring good ideas to fruition, and help those in need.
A Community Rebuilding Center
In a post-disaster setting, scarcities can be all too common. A nationwide increase in the cost of building materials—coinciding almost exactly with the timing of
RT Container House Prototype
Some Quick Facts about the RT Container Home: • This 160 sq ft modular home features 2 queen-size beds; a half bath with shower, sink,
Container Garden Resiliency Project
The Container Garden project is a business-sponsored citizen initiative that strengthens ties between residents and helps support a beautiful, sustainable, and resilient recovery. Using galvanized
Trauma Counseling Pop-up Container
Mental health in the wake of a natural disaster is a community need, as critical as food and shelter. In the rush to supply essential
Snow Globe: The Holidays, Delivered!
By the end of the year, outside resources and aid to fire-displaced people in temporary shelters will be stretched thin. We can come together as
Accountability Projects
We are creating a coalition of accountability to make sure that redevelopment of the valley happens in an equitable way, taking into account the immense losses of our most vulnerable populations: low-income and Latino families, and the elderly. We may not be able to save every family in the short-term, but we can work to provide for their return and preserve our demographic.
Community Micro-grants
We believe that strategic community gifts are the most effective way to begin rebuilding our community, while creating equity and engagement points for residents dedicated
Collaboration Circles
Ours is not the first community to experience a disaster like the Almeda fire, and sadly we will not be the last. As we plan
Zone Captains Program
Using proven success stories from other fire-affected communities, members of Remake Talent and its partner organizations gathered with a stack of printed maps and colored