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Design with Dialogue (DwD) is an open Toronto-based community of practice.
We gather for monthly dialogue workshops to share learning to co-educate and develop competency in community design practices. DwD has the ultimate purpose of facilitating change and meaningful action 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 held 6-9pm on the second Wednesday of every month at OCAD University 100 McCaul St. south of Dundas St. in Toronto). For event registration, visit our Eventbrite website.
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SYSTEMS THINKING & VISUAL THINKERS Two new communities of inquiry have formed, now meeting monthly at OCADU Lambert Lounge (when available):
Systems Thinking Ontario held 3rd Thursdays
Visual Thinkers Toronto / Ottawa is (usually) the last Tuesday of each month. Contact DwD if interested in these communities.Tags
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Designing Occupation Dialogue
We invited Occupy Toronto to kick off a DwD session, and continued with the dialogue engagement live at the camp, after it came down mid-week following the session.
Grad students and even president Sara Diamond from OCAD University were involved with sponsorship from the Design Exchange. Two major community events were held, located (ironically enough) in the deco-era original Toronto Stock Exchange used by the DX.
The goals of these sessions were to evolve a common framing and voice for (meaning “with”) the diffuse and diverse core members of the movement.
What we seem to be missing are the connections between similar events in other Occupy communities. Pay attention to the shift of medium here – Occupy is an emerging and embodied social medium for civil change. It is not like the Arab Spring or other social media narratives. This is embodied (situated in place) and broadcasted (livecast) and not tweeted and FB’d to organize.
People are working things out F2F – not online – its a classic McLuhan media transformation in the making.