Dialogues on current issues and civic engagement
Who is and where is your community, that you care about? Do you have the conversations there you would like to learn from? How might you bring a practice, a clearing to open dialogues in your communities? What are the most appropriate dialogue methods to fit different contexts? How might we build working knowledge and […]
Can we Raise Awareness Toward Disrupting the Business Model of War? If we become aware of the interconnected systems and interests of political & planetary oppression, we can publicly speak to these issues, and disrupt their functions. We hold that the only truly sustainable world is flourishing – which is present when people, societies and […]
HOW INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE IS THE BEST, PERHAPS ONLY HOPE FOR ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE. May’s DwD explored a shared inquiry led by Kevin Best (Indigenize or Die, Friends of the Seventh Generation) in the indigenous style of a talking circle dialogue, with nearly 25 participants present. The talking circle is ancient mode that respects the primacy […]
Continuing the DwD exploration of policy futures, in April we explored probable and desired near future political landscapes facing Toronto and Ontario in the impending election. As with the 2017 DwD series on a People’s Design Brief for Canadian foreign policy, we hosted a dialogue to co-create new narratives for an emerging political concern. In […]
This year, September 21-22 OCAD University hosts the #NoWar2018 conference, the annual international peace conference held by World Beyond War. We are proposing a workshop and possibly a panel or talk to share the workshop’s outcomes at this event. Last year at this time DwD held a track of dialogue events toward the recovery of […]