Problems of Participation / Demsoc Workshops
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Principal Investigator:
Leila Dawney
Problems of Participation, our edited collection of essays, is designed to be used as a stimulus for those who are interested in participatory democracy and community building. This project involves drawing together community advocates, local government officials, activists, voluntary sector organisation workers and interested members of the public, in order to address some of the problems and issues around encouraging people to get involved in their communities. Using Problems of Participation, members of ARN facilitate workshops built around ARN’s signature “slow thinking” approach, in order to draw out key problems and work together to identify ways of addressing and working with those problems. The essays in the book provide thought-provoking stimulus material, from which participants can produce their own agendas for discussion. ARN is working closely with democracy organisation DEMSOC to produce these events. At present two workshops are planned, one in Lewes, East Sussex, and one in Bristol. |
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