co-design sprints 🌿✨ they're the heartwood of a community-rooted project like towardTreeEquity, where technical design meets political imagination and relational trust. let’s shape this together as a series of gentle, generative steps that ground your team in shared authorship and meaningful modularity.

🌱 what is a co-design sprint?

a co-design sprint is a structured, time-bound collaboration session where everyone — not just engineers or data scientists — helps define the structure, logic, purpose, and ethics of a system. you’ll blend:

• ✨ community insight,
• 🛠 data/modeling knowledge, and
• 💞 governance + narrative values.

🌀 recommended sprint arc (3–4 sessions)

Each sprint is ~1.5–2 hrs and can be repeated for new layers, models, or narratives.

SPRINT 1: “the roots” — defining purpose & relationships

goals:

• clarify what the layer/module is for and who it serves
• define its relationship to the rest of the ecosystem (schema, models, community)

activities:

• ✏️ draw a story map of how someone (planner, organizer, modeler, tree) touches this data
• 🌐 identify its anchor ID, spatial resolution, and linking logic
• 📚 co-write 1-paragraph purpose statement for the schema layer

output: