We Who Engage MIT

An project of MIT's Department of Urban Studies & Planning, focused on facilitating real civic engagement to rebuild our public’s muscle for democracy.

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In a new interview, We Who Engage team member (and @MITdusp alum) Agustin Cepeda shares his thoughts on design & how that shaped the Civic Design Framework. https://t.co/EtEsj3cnq7

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Ceasar spoke with We Who Engage team member @n_arnosti about what sparked his interest in civic engagement and why public conversations are an essential part of our democracy. Read the Q&A: https://t.co/L8IZBAi3mo

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See Ceasar's Q&A with @MIT about our new Civic Design Framework: https://t.co/TRNbpKjAkc

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Can we design more engaged & effective public dialogue models to strengthen #democracy? Learn more in Peter Dizikes @MIT News interview with #dusp's Ceasar McDowell, focused on @WeWhoEngage_MIT's 'Civic Design Framework.' More- https://t.co/qZHQaPAO5A

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Public life exists both online and in face-to-face encounters, so the best civic engagement strategies combine the analog & digital worlds. https://t.co/QcZzN1oqnI

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The City of Poughkeepsie’s new Children’s Cabinet is exploring ways to improve their civic engagement processes by designing for the margins & for systemic change. Learn more about it: https://t.co/QcZzN1oqnI

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Public meetings are often inaccessible, confusing, and inequitable. Our new Civic Design Framework is intended to help you improve them. https://t.co/QcZzN1oqnI

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Local development & planning policies - from redlining, to urban renewal, to exclusionary zoning - have repeatedly betrayed those at the margins of society. That’s why civic engagement needs to design for healing. Read more in our new report: https://t.co/QcZzN1oqnI

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The City of Boston’s most recent comprehensive transportation plan pioneered new ways of hearing from the public. Learn more in our new report, which introduces the Civic Design Framework: https://t.co/QcZzN1oqnI

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The @SeattleFdn's Civic Commons seeks to facilitate region-wide conversations to close social & economic divides, and its practices closely align with ideas in our new Civic Design Framework. Read more here: https://t.co/QcZzN1oqnI

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Our new “Civic Spinner” is intended to help community leaders & city officials design better civic engagement strategies using concepts in our Civic Design Framework. See how it can be used here: https://t.co/QcZzN1oqnI

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If you design public meetings for the margins, it will likely work for the middle too. Explore this and other design principles for better civic engagement in our new report: https://t.co/QcZzN1oqnI

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Too many community meetings exclude important perspectives. To account for a diversity of skillsets, public conversations should be designed to support multiple forms of expression. Read other design principles for civic engagement in our new report: https://t.co/QcZzN1oqnI

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We need better public conversations to bring about racial justice. That starts with recognizing that not all public conversations have the same objectives. Our new Civic Design Framework outlines the 6 types of public conversations: https://t.co/QcZzN1oqnI

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The intersecting crises we face today — a pandemic, skyrocketing inequality, rampant misinformation, and more — can only be addressed through collective problem-solving. Yet our civic infrastructure is deeply flawed. Introducing the Civic Design Framework: https://t.co/QcZzN1oqnI

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This week, we’re featuring Ian Ollis – a former South African politician who recently received his second Master’s degree at MIT. Click here to read about his time working in the public sector and his thoughts on the power of transportation: https://t.co/uU7F0XmF0G

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