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- Title
The World Café Goes Local: A Town Plans for the Future.
- Authors
HECHENBLEIKNER, PETER; GILBURG, DEBORAH; DUNNELL, KERRY
- Abstract
"How can we as a community align ourselves to define our collective future?" That's the question that prompted residents of the town of Reading, Massachusetts, to hold the community's first World Café conversation. This article summarizes how the Reading World Café came together and the resulting outcomes. Whereas previous efforts to engage community members in broader thinking had met with limited success, the café drew more than 200 people at a time when, in general, public participation has dwindled and public discourse has become contentious. The process gave town officials data that was of higher quality than what might have resulted from focus groups or surveys, because it emerged from an exploratory conversation among people interested in the community
- Subjects
READING (Mass.); URBAN planning; COMMUNITY development; CONVERSATION; COMMUNITY involvement; DISCOURSE
- Publication
Reflections, 2012, Vol 11, Issue 4, p18
- ISSN
1524-1734
- Publication type
Article