Design Dialogues » Participatory Democracy http://designdialogues.com Reflections on the future from a point in present Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:44:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 “Reforming” the US Healthcare “system” http://designdialogues.com/reforming-the-us-healthcare-system/ http://designdialogues.com/reforming-the-us-healthcare-system/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:26:38 +0000 Designdialogues http://designdialogues.com/?p=488 First off, its not a system, and we should reclaim our correct use of the word. It is a system in the way officials like to call the incarceration process the “justice system.” System dignifies this mess as if it were an assembly of planned processes directed toward beneficial outcomes. And the way we toss . . . → Read More: “Reforming” the US Healthcare “system”]]> http://designdialogues.com/reforming-the-us-healthcare-system/feed/ 0 What is the contribution of Design in a national economy? http://designdialogues.com/what-is-the-contribution-of-design-in-a-national-economy/ http://designdialogues.com/what-is-the-contribution-of-design-in-a-national-economy/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:30:19 +0000 Designdialogues http://designdialogues.com/?p=322 OCAD’s president Sara Diamond advocates for a Canadian national design strategy in the Globe and Mail.

Design is essential to Canada’s science and technology strategy, which underlines the needs of markets in the developing and developed world for new inventions that make use of new and sustainable materials, medical technologies, ICT, digital media, and biotechnology. . . . → Read More: What is the contribution of Design in a national economy?]]> http://designdialogues.com/what-is-the-contribution-of-design-in-a-national-economy/feed/ 0 Toronto 2.0 – Becoming a wired participatory polity http://designdialogues.com/toronto-20-becoming-a-wired-participatory-polity/ http://designdialogues.com/toronto-20-becoming-a-wired-participatory-polity/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:00:31 +0000 Designdialogues http://designdialogues.com/?p=319 Today’s Globe & Mail reports on ChangeCamp.

What is ChangeCamp? It is the application of ‘the long tail’ to public policy. It is a long-held and false assumption that ordinary citizens don’t care about public policy. The statement isn’t, of itself, false. Many, many, many people truly don’t care that much. They want to live . . . → Read More: Toronto 2.0 – Becoming a wired participatory polity]]> http://designdialogues.com/toronto-20-becoming-a-wired-participatory-polity/feed/ 0 Who gets to define Citizen Participation? http://designdialogues.com/who-gets-to-define-citizen-participation/ http://designdialogues.com/who-gets-to-define-citizen-participation/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:51:09 +0000 Designdialogues http://designdialogues.com/?p=310 A week ago 200 people in Toronto started a movement called ChangeCamp, a rapid-response unconference of tech, design, and policy/government people who engaged the question: How do we re-imagine government and citizenship in the age of participation?

I drove up from Dayton the day before ChangeCamp and showed up at 9:00 ready . . . → Read More: Who gets to define Citizen Participation?]]> http://designdialogues.com/who-gets-to-define-citizen-participation/feed/ 1 Bursting at the Seams http://designdialogues.com/bursting-at-the-seams/ http://designdialogues.com/bursting-at-the-seams/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:07:17 +0000 Designdialogues http://dialogicdesign.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/bursting-at-the-seams/ Jeffrey Sachs – Speaking on solving global problems at the Reith Lectures. He may be a one-man Club of Rome.

And how can it be, ladies and gentlemen, that we think we can be safe? We think we can be safe when we leave a billion people to struggle literally for their daily survival, the . . . → Read More: Bursting at the Seams]]> http://designdialogues.com/bursting-at-the-seams/feed/ 2