What do you consider a community? Not as a definition, but in your experience? In what groups has emerged the felt experience of a communitas as shared social system wrapped around a purpose or activity? We offer to explore the nature of community through dialogue and visual sensemaking in the traditionally offbeat August DwD, with […]
In a second in our series on wise democracy – Natalija Voijno published a post about the Wise Democracy session on Medium, sharing her thoughts on better democratic decisions. Deliberation, election and political practices have attempted many forms of democratic participation. Yet do we experience these as democratic? What contributes to a felt understanding of […]
We are exploring a conversation on the possibilities of what we call “wise democracy” using the tools from the Wise Democracy project. With participatory exercises to guide dialogue, we explored questions of: How might we design for co-creative democratic participation? How might we invoke wisdom to facilitate power sharing? What practices might we be missing […]
How might we as citizens inspire responsive governance in the next term of Toronto’s city leadership and beyond? As citizens of Toronto we are responsible for the governments we elect to represent us. How can we inspire leadership for a shared, sustainable future? The rapid changes and growth that Toronto is undergoing has both local […]
June’s Unify Toronto dialogue hosted leadership educator, facilitator and Juno-nominated pianist Michael Jones, inspired by his forthcoming book: The Soul of Place: Reimagining Leadership through Arts, Nature, and Community. The book is expected shortly, and will be available for August’s Design with Dialogue (8/13) as Michael returns to OCADU with a second session for the book […]