This exciting new book by Wendy Sarkissian and Dianna Hurford with Christine Wenman, released in February 2010, is now for sale online and in bookstores.
Creative Community Planning provides clear access to emerging innovations in artistic, narrative, embodied and technological methods, exploring the frontiers of community engagement and empowerment practice within a fresh sustainability framework,
Academics, professionals and community members increasingly acknowledge that multiple perspectives enrich planning outcomes. Further, it’s acknowledged that the engagement process itself can create imaginative forums and spaces that can nurture understanding and empathy for ourselves and our environments. Reflecting on the wide continuum of participatory practice, the authors discuss the work of planning theorists, researchers and practitioners engaging a diversity of people living in diverse and ever changing communities. The authors discuss how engagement practices are enhanced using practices such as visioning and participatory research processes, poetry, theatre, film, websites and exercises to access the creative ideas of all ages, including children and young people.
The style and methods in this book offer multiple points for both practice and dialogue, ideal for academics, practitioners, students and instructors in all forms of planning, social research, participatory action research, community cultural development and community engagement.
New website
We are in the process of establishing a website for “Creative Community Planning”.
See: www.creativecommunityplanning.com
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