The one paying for the party does not necessarily choose the music. Arauco, a company with interests in the city of Constitución, proposed and financed a new master plan after the city was ravaged by a tsunami in 2010. The hybrid forum is the creation artificially, if you like of relatively symmetrical conditions for dialogue, meaning that it is fundamental to destabilize the unquestionable everyday hierarchies for it to work. The design of the Hybird Forum carefully sets aside hierarchies so that ideas and controversies can be debated more openly and productively. Readers may also enjoy a brief discussion of to help discover opportunity. For example, in Constitución there was debate in a public forum on the very presence of the Arauco cellulose plant in the city. We demand better productivity from food production, but can we demand resource wisdom and sustainability? The mere fact of bringing together diverse stakeholders is an opening for the otherwise-contained tensions to emerge, the scores yet to be settled, the historic demands to be voiced once again.
. We hosted three sessions, each bringing together two cases for a simultaneous discussion, concluding with full notebooks, large audio files, and our heads happily aching. We hosted a series of discussions, each bringing together a pair of cases, and then set to work distilling the outcomes into this text. Our mission is to advance this way of working—we call it. The surest thing there is is we are riders, And though none too successful at it, guiders, Through everything presented, land and tide And now the very air, of what we ride. Producing this type of decision requires putting the common good first, which is beyond the grasp of any one stakeholder.
The friction begins with all the actors at the table and a proposal as a starting point. Below you will find a personal perspective from Corinne LeTourneau, who played a key role in the Brownsville case study. Good ideas are not enough anymore. Ethnographic immersion such as this requires the wisdom of a craftsman, the precision of an acupuncturist and Buddhist patience. It means engaging both the powerful and the marginal sectors. We get worried when easy agreements emerge that could hide tensions that have not been dealt with. A subset of the points of practise are illustrated with drawings by.
When we think about social change through the lens of push and pull, I offer the as an example of push. We could certainly create a taxonomy, but that already implies a formality of knowledge that we were not comfortable with. Hydbrid forums should allow collective catharsis to occur. Tensions must be resolved in all dimensions: with experts, decision-makers, the affected parties, and the occasional curious person passing by the square. Each case is presented with a basic overview, a narrative that's a few pages long, a 'network of practise' diagram, and a series of points of practise that are illustrated by the case in question but by no means exclusive to it. Those same goals could have been addressed with a project that focused on groceries instead of street food, or even a focus-area that has nothing to do food, such as small retail shops.
We made a commitment early on to post regularly in the form of. Sportsmanship and Ontological pluralism To avoid conversations among the deaf, where each voice tries to impose its perspective, and to avoid instrumental dialogues where each stakeholders comes into the game with a shopping list, there is a need to learn and to teach how to deliberate with a sportsmanlike attitude, with fair play. The Open House team must include an appropriate mix of locals and outsiders. We refer to materiality in two ways. Glass of wine Korkeavuorenkatu 25 Occupying a quiet corner in one of Helsinki's leafier neighborhoods.
The facilitator holds a position that is different to that of all the other parties, including the experts, but it is not a neutral one. Their credentials are left out of the argument. Apart from that, we're working on a revision to the website that will serve as the final update. But though it runs unbridled off its course, And all our blandishments would seem defied, We have ideas yet that we haven't tried. We also have to provide an offering that is so compelling, perhaps even seductive, that it can attract attention and interest of collaborators. But this also creates a challenge: Sitra represents approximately 120 out of the 5.
An example from Rumor's work on the information architecture of the site. They are made explicit; all elements are put on the table and a persistent attempt is made to find common ground. Human odor testers were proposed as part of a community monitoring system, complementing scientific monitoring of the perceived odors. Within that opportunistic space the real challenge is not identifying a potential area or subject to work on, but to that has a high possibility of success. These stand a better chance to pull in the attention of finnish society, saving us from the need to create attention and interest in our subject, before we can even begin to generate interest in our project, before we can even hope to have a successful project. The Open House Through practice we learned that the Hybrid Forum works best when it has a physical home in the heart of the city.
Without trying to valorize a particular company, what we've taken from this observation is a recognition of the competitive landscape that good ideas have to survive today. Your site needs to sound academic, authoritative, and forward-thinking, yet still accessible and personal. In the future, perhaps Finland could export food production technologies instead of food? In general experts hide in their little worlds, protected by their own language, and jealously defend their quotas of power. This model of making visible things happen soon became an ethos when developing new projects or programs. Perhaps this should be no surprise, given the challenge of a world where many things seems to be changing, including the ways we live, eat, communicate, and just about everything else. To take that conversation to every bar, every family table, every street, communications play a fundamental role. In Jackson, we found someone who could bring local authenticity to the effort in a way no one else could.
We listened closely to project teams as they explained their work in detail. One must immerse themselves into the city and its many communities in an ethnographic way, seeking to understand them on their own terms. Instead Facebook offered something that was so attractive it pulled people in. More than one-third of Brownsville families live below the poverty line, unemployment is higher than average, and 29% of the population left high school without a degree. While a single entity might fund a Hybrid Forum, their interests alone cannot drive the dialogue.
We don't need banners, so why have them? A public consultation process is held where the central decisions are subjected to a referendum and the people are asked to prioritize the different projects that comprise the overall plan. Indeed, a good bit of the value of an independent organization like Sitra is that it has the mandate and resources to think about things which are not on the top of society's mind right this moment. Dive into the controversy To deploy a conversation on a citywide level you need to seek and to identify the key voices. If the poor had to go, then so did the rich people occupying the same waterfront, barely separated by a street. Sen päätavoite on sama: lisätä ihmisten kykyä, halua ja mahdollisuuksia kestävän yhteiskunnallisen muutoksen tekemiseen. We can just see the infant up astride, His small fist buried in the bushy hide. Try the meatballs or the salmon soup.