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October 6, 2006 Program |
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The community conversation, A Year in Providence and the Region began in the fall of 2005. Its original and lasting aim is to explore innovation of place through a diverse dialogue of engaging questions, images, ideas, and dilemma’s – especially about cities, towns, villages and the region. We are not convening to take collective action. We are convening to engender thinking out of which participants take actions that matter to them, individually, as projects or through combining projects. Our commitment to collectively explore and innovate will continue into 2007.
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Program for October 6th
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Audio
Creating Convenient Conditions for Sustainability to Emerge - Larry Quick, New Commons
Larry Quick will provide a framework for identifying and aligning on the conditions that will allow sustainability to emerge. He will also pose to participants a question that keeps him up at night – how do we go beyond having to have future facts and foresight framed as inconvenient truths, or as crisis, before we are prepared to change? In this conversation Larry will zero in on: what key conditions must we understand, align and act on as the context for decision-making to achieve sustainable places in RI and the region?
Sustainability Practices: Is Sustainability Enough? - Robert Leaver, New Commons
What places are using sustainable and systemic practices, e.g. urban farming in Burlington Vt.? What conditions are driving each practice? What will it take to move from sustainability to generative, and even regenerative, thinking and practices? What requires restoration? Is our better aim, the ecological city where one person’s waste is someone else’s food?
Designing Futures: Reflections from Afar - Paul Houghton, Knowledge Technologies Studio (KTS), Perth, Australia
Paul will have 3-to-4 questions he is holding as he listens to our community conversation on sustainability. His questions will focus on the role of design and a ‘knowledge systems mind’, new ways to teach and learn, and the use of the online media and networks. He will also pull lessons for us to consider from his work on sustainability and the site www.designingfutures.com.au, and his co-leadership of Western Australia’s Creative Communities project.
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