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Design with Dialogue | September 2010

Wednesday, September 8, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)

Toronto, Ontario

Design with Dialogue | September 2010

Ticket Information

Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
DwD @ sLAB September 2010 Ended CA$5.00 CA$1.11

Event Details

Join Design with Dialogue from 6-9pm on the second Wednesday of every month at OCAD's sLab.  We are an open community of practice who learn together how to lead conversations through participatory design, strategic dialogues and emerging facilitation methods. 

September's session on large group decision making will be hosted by Jason Diceman, Senior Public Consultation Coordinator for the City of Toronto and author of the Dotmocracy Handbook. 

Dotmocracy is a transparent, equal opportunity, and participatory large group decision-making tool. It is a simple method for recognizing points of agreement among a large number of people. Participants write down ideas on specially designed paper forms called Dotmocracy sheets and use pens to fill in one dot per sheet, recording their levels of agreement. The result is a graph-like visual representation of the group's collective opinion. Note, this is not sticky dot voting like you may be familiar with.

Dotmocracy has been proven to:
  • Recognize collective priorities and direction from all participants.
  • Engage and empower diverse groups of people.
  • Recognize agreement on unique and specific ideas, as well as general and thematic ideas.
  • Give an equal voice to even the quietest of participants.
  • Help avoid verbal debates and "soap box" style speech-making.
  • Support friendly discussions while efficiently leading to practical conclusions.
  • Provide fully documented results that can be easily turned into action plans.
We will learn the details of facilitating this technique and apply the tool in a real life scenario, discuss approaches to various challenges and hear stories from Jason's experience in Venezuelan communal councils, Canadian co-operatives, un-conferences and public consultations. 

Jason will be selling b/w copies of his Handbook at a 50% discount of $5. You can download a free PDF of the Handbook and learn more about Dotmocracy at www.Dotmocracy.org

Please join us on September 8 from 6-9pm at OCAD's sLAB for another lively, engaging and educational session and forward this invitation along to anyone you know who might be interested in attending. More at www.designwithdialogue.com.

When & Where



sLAB | Strategic Innovation Lab (Room 600)
OCAD Ontario College of Art and Design
100 McCaul Street
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1W1
Canada

Wednesday, September 8, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)


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Design with Dialogue



Design with Dialogue (DwD) is an open community of practice learning together to lead organizational & community change through participatory design, strategic dialogue and emerging facilitation methods.

We gather monthly to convene workshops as a practice in social design to engage the organizations, projects, and civic communities to which we're committed.

Join us from 6-9pm on the second Wednesday of every month at OCAD's Lambert Lounge.

DwD is coordinated by:

Peter Jones
OCAD faculty and Principal at Redesign

Greg Judelman
Chief Design Officer at The Moment