Can Planners Learn Something From Computer Programmers?
1 February 2007 - 10:00am
Unconferences, a type of informational gathering among open source software developers, could provide a model for the planning community.
"If you want people to innovate, you usually have to bring them together. Conferences can be a terrific tool for getting folks in the same place and talking about the same related set of ideas, but they have a number of problems."
"Unconferences give a model for gathering people in a low-cost, high-impact way. At it's most basic, an unconference is simply an event where a space is offered for the participants to create and share their own sessions."
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Unconventions and the Toronto Transit Camp
Source:
WorldChanging, January 31, 2007
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And many of us – the majority, in fact – find ourselves living in a drive-only landscape, where we must burn gas even to reach a transit stop, if one exists.
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