Drawing insights from the community forestry practices in India being carried out under the country's Joint Forest Management efforts, the paper explores how different local organizations affect participatory management of common-pool resources (CPRs).
Through participatory theatre, community members like Mr. Namacumi are invited to become advocates for issues of common importance, such as health, education, hygiene and prevention of domestic violence.
Not the least of these is the development of the critical function, which is fundamental to the development of discourse and consensus on matters of common concern within in the public sphere, which civil society theorists see as key to a viable, participatory democracy.
The EDU achieved a truly integrated form of participatory planning, establishing a common ground between once warring factions and a common will to make change.
While the use of making in participatory co-design is common, I argue for the benefits that making-led participatory co-design can bring to two fields where its use is rare: early-stage innovation and mental health.
Ditto for us, as humans are very much a part of this participatory way of life.
Lessons drawn from the roll out of the training include: the forging of a common understanding through stakeholder participation; the benefits of a participatory approach and the appropriate use of local and international case studies to illustrate concepts.
One of the most common motifs of vocabulary draws from that of participatory engagement.
In the old planetarium, volunteers instructed classes in mirror grinding and the construction of telescopes, and experts told stargazers planning to look up at a real sky where they should look for Mars, the Pleiades and the galaxy we used to call the Great Nebula in Andromeda; it wasn't glitzy NASA-style animation, but it was participatory astronomy for the common man.
The participatory tumult of the theater was supplanted by the private experience of the screen.
