Empowered Dialogue for Civic Innovation

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Empowered Dialogue for Civic Innovation

By Design with Dialogue

Date and time

Wed, Oct 12, 2016 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM EDT

Location

OCAD University

100 McCaul Street Lambert Lounge, Room 187 Toronto, ON M5T 1W1 Canada

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Description

DwD is fortunate to host Aleco Christakis and his colleague Maria Kakoulaki for a convivial dialogue to be held for October's Design with Dialogue. Aleco and Maria will be sharing their work from the Demoscopio project established in their town of Heraklion, Crete, which represents an emerging centre of civic innovation co-create and self-organized by citizen collaboration.

The session will start with a brief story about the Demoscopio and discussion of the distinctions of the Agora, the Arena, and the Lab. The dialogue will shift to our communities as committed stakeholders in the co-creation of place-based democratic centres for critical and creative citizen engagement. We will further explore questions relevant to the RSD keynote, including:

  • How might the Demoscopio paradigm inspire strongly-centred democratic [r]evolutions for democratic societal evolution?
  • How does the Demoscopio design and culture inspire, connect, empower and liberate citizen’s voices in designing their own social systems?
  • What are the new narratives of cultural innovation we can all undertake to inspire flourishing, democratic communities?





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Design with Dialogue is a community of practice for facilitating change and meaningful action through forms of human-centred dialogue in our organizations, communities, collaborative projects and as individuals. We learn and play together through participatory design, strategic dialogue, creative arts and emerging facilitation methods. DwD is hosted by Peter Jones (OCAD University, SFI professor) at OCAD locations.

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