The establishment of the programme in the villages followed several participatory stages: preliminary discussion, the identification and choice of participants, and the development of the programme.
Conceptual modeling is used to initiate participatory modeling processes (Stage Three) and ensure a high compatibility with quantitative modeling approaches (Stage Four).
Look out for: Parades, art tents, theatres, boat rides, treasure hunts, bands in trees, open-mic stages, participatory games and a firework display on Saturday night.
Framing scenario planning as input for second-stage participatory processes instead of a stand-alone exercise can thus help to increase the added value of scenario planning, and its return to the community altogether.
However, attention is required in selecting appropriate cultural references if this strategy is adopted elsewhere, and design facilitators should focus first on devising accessible language-games, rather than expecting popular cultural references to provide complete solutions to the challenge of staging participatory design.
Throughout the summer and fall artist Nick Cave will be dancing in the streets of Detroit in his whimsical 'soundsuits.' For Cave's city-wide takeover for Here Hear, the artist is staging participatory performances including HEARD Detroit, a restaging of his 2013 HEARDNY Grand Central Terminal performance.
Strategy used and actions taken Early in 2006, at the request of the government's Department of Poverty and Disaster Management Affairs, an international consultant was hired to coordinate the design and testing of a cash transfer scheme that would use a multi-stage participatory process to target beneficiaries among Malawi's labour-constrained ultra poor households.
For building and evaluating scenarios in this specific planning exercise (see Fig. 1 – 'evaluation stage'), a participatory approach was adopted, based on the engagement of local stakeholders and representatives (decision-makers) in a participatory workshop (20 persons were involved).
"Citizens who want to appear on the public screen, who want to act on the stage of participatory democracy, face three major conditions that both constrain and enable their actions: 1) private ownership/monopoly of the public screen, 2) Infotainment conventions that filter what counts as news, and 3) the need to communicate in the discourse of images".
Communities should be fully engaged in the process at all stages using participatory processes, and special attention should be given to building on local knowledge and promoting existing positive traditional practices.
