Name of
method / technique : |
Description
of the method / technique /
tool : |
Analysis doc.
(Grid B form) |
Implemented by: |
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Bordergame |
To promote public spaces as places for the socialisation
of young people - rather marginalized in their environment -, through
the creation of a videogame which simulates the conflicts they are
involved in.
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Grid
B - Bordergame.pdf |
Fundació Desenvolupament
Comunitari
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Citizen jury, citizen council or thematic group |
The method receives different names depending on the presence or absence
of certain features. In the day to day use of participatory methods it
is very common that the methods finally used had a mixture of several of
these participatory or deliberative methods. The need to adapt the
different methods to the requirements of the practical situations makes
very common the use of this kind of combinations.
The basic purpose is to introduce a mechanism in the
elaboration of a public policy that made possible the citizen
participation in the decision making process of. It is argued that
through the incorporation of citizen views and citizen inputs (in a
deliberative and participatory way) in the process of decision making
the public policy finally designed will have more legitimacy and more
possibilities of successful implementation.
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Grid B - Citizen jury, citizen council or thematic
group.pdf |
Fundació Desenvolupament
Comunitari
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Community appraisal |
According to the active core of
the new Association the success of the intervening steps taken by
the community – from bottom up, to restart action – is due to the
scientific and evaluating survey, examination and its "good sense
for community" coming from personal commitment. With regard to the
results four factors, four intervening points are to be stressed:
– making new publicity (Istenkút
Newsletter),
– making the community identity
stronger through its hidden symbols, values and the enforcement of
its common affairs,
– reinterpretation of its
relationship with the City Government (not only citizens' rights but
procedures of the local power's operation was to be learnt)
– granting the continuity of the
organized local activities.
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Grid 2 -
Community appraisal.pdf |
The Civil College Foundation
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Construction workshops |
Construction workshops
within the project “ A
Living Public Square!”.
About 35
children ; working together after school in workshops with 10 adults who
were volunteers and professional staff. Who? Residents and staff;
volunteers from parent groups. Mulitpliers? A local kindergarten is
asked to take care of the plants and flower beds. They do the planting
in following years. Many families to the children are “engaged” by the
fact that their children can point to a public facility they have been
or still are a part of caring for.
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Grid B - Construction workshops.pdf
Presentation of tools - Sagene
Tools for participation hand out.pdf
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Unit for
Sustainability,
Sagene district
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Fishbowl |
A group of 6-8 people is placed in a circle of chairs. The chairs are
placed with the backs of the chairs inside the circle. The rest of the
group is placed in a lager circle around the inner circle of chairs. One
person (but not any one of the ones in the circles) is the leader of the
meeting. He or she will distribute the time and word between the
participants. One topic to discuss has already been chose. The
participants in the smaller circle, “the fishbowl”, are having a
conversation regarding the topic for about 45 minutes. The others are
listening and reflecting about what the fishbowl are talking about.
After the 45 minutes they can start do discuss the topic with the
fishbowl group for another 45 minutes. The leader of the meeting is
writing down on a board the conversation. Then the leader of the meeting
is making a conclusion if the most important new knowledge and questions
formulations that the dialog has contributed to. After that the group
cut up to smaller groups with about 6-8 participants. Each of the
fishbowl members associates to a group. They will now discuss the
questions formulations from the earlier discussion, and they try to
solve strategies for the future.
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Grid B - Fishbowl.pdf |
CESAM
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Forum theatre |
Forum theatre is a way through which adults explore
their needs and possible solutions by acting the situation
(oppression) they feel and face. It is a way through which adults build
understanding of their situation and explore in a creative and flexible
way the needs and potential solutions.
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Grid B - Forum Theatre.pdf |
The
Romanian Association for Community Development
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Future Workshop |
Invented by the German future
scientist and journalist Robert Jungk.The objective is to open the space for a practical and
collective creation of a more sustainable future based upon the everyday
experiences of the people that are joining the Future Workshop. The
participants are “social architects”. The most important tools to “build
with” are their thoughts, experiences, visions and dreams for the
future. In the future workshop you are not only discussing the future
but it is anticipated by critique of the existing, the building of
concrete utopian ideas/future pictures and action plans based upon the
critique and the future pictures articulated through the process of the
future workshop. The overall objective is to interlink the renewing of
the democracy with the developing of competence of action.
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Grid B - Future Workshop.pdf
The article related to the Future workshop grid:
Halkaer Aadal democratic management.pdf |
The
Ideas Bank
Foundation
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Meet Babel |
Our aim is to examine and to learn if it is possible to establish an
attentive contact between persons (and groups) from different cultures
(incl. different languages) by using some very simple tools and hereby
bring about a dialogue across the cultural differences.
In practice we have had in focus to bring about a dialogue between
migrant-women and politicians.
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Meet
Babel.pdf |
The Christian Student-Settlement
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Mixed agents
-
negotiation roundtable |
A meeting point between public local sector and social
agents (associations, networks, socioeconomic initiatives) to develop
the autonomous management of public services (culture, sports…), as a
consequence of the development of co-responsibility and subsidiary
principles. We practiced it with cultural centers
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Grid B - Mixed agents - negotiation roundtable.pdf |
Fundació Desenvolupament
Comunitari
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Picture Circle
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Video from the People and Politics meeting in Malmö,
Sweden in May 2008, where
Kirsten Paaby from
the Ideas Bank, Norway
introduces the participation method "The Picture Circle" for the Pepol
partners.
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The Picture Circle |
The
Pepol partners
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Signature collection |
After the loss of the school all the community resources
remained concentrated in Istenkút Community Association founded in 1997:
moral, professional and social capital accumulated during the struggle,
a strong feeling of responsibility for the area's future. Due to a
professionally well-established project the organization was able to
raise external funds from sponsors other than the City Government which
refused to finance local public aims, and they were able to build up
again community feeling on the ruins of community life.
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Grid B
- Signature collection.pdf |
The
Civil College
Foundation
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Theatre |
The first essential and widely known
breakthrough happened in the summer of 2000 when, celebrating the
millennium, a mystery play was put on stage under the title The
Spring: the play from the legend about the name of 'Istenkút' (God's
spring or God's well) was written by one of the community members. Kids
and adults were working together on the performance. The open-air,
musical performance on the hills behind the school building, which, as
an unburied corpse, was empty that time, had consequences both within
the community and as a theatre performance. All the efforts made to put
on stage the story from the age of the Tartar invasion communicated that
following the dangers and threats Istenkút is the source of a new life
for the surviving community
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Grid B - Theatre.pdf |
The
Civil College
Foundation
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THE PEPOL TOOLBOX