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Engaging Community: Models and Methods for Strengthening Democracy
Examines the demographic complexity of cities and their fundamental design challenges for planners and other professions responsible for engaging the public. Working with clients, participants learn design principles for creating public engagement practices necessary for building inclusive civic infrastructure in cities. Participants also have the opportunity to review and practice strategies, techniques, and methods for engaging communities in demographically complex settings.
Spring 2020 · Engaging Community: Models and Methods for Designers and Planners
Topics
- Introduction
- Demographic Complexity and Public Conversation
- Civic Design Framework
- Civic Design Skills Assessment
- Learning Design and Intro to Gather
- Learning Design Session 2
- Intro to Class Redesign; Learning Design Session 3
- Review of Learning Designs and Overview of Client Project
- Client Design Brief Session; Facilitation Workshop
- Presentation of Final Design Brief and Learning Designs; Facilitation Workshop
- Closing Reflection
Readings
- McDowell, Ceasar (2019). “Dialogue and Democratic Complexity” in Peter N. Stearns (ed.), Peacebuilding Through Dialogue: Education, Human Transformation, and Conflict Resolution . George Mason University. ASIN: B07JN367QW
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: None G (Spring) 3-0-9 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2020
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.