Sarah Wong

The truth is that there are very few opportunities for communities to come together to talk about how their place is working outside formal planning consultation processes that ask people to respond to change that is already well underway. We have found that creating a conversation which starts from a broader look at how a place is working or could... See more

Writing is a small, simple word for a very expansive task. There’s coming up with ideas, conducting interviews and research, presenting it all in an engaging way.

power asymmetries can affect two important stages of the deliberative process (recruitment and facilitation)

To do so, we first worked to understand the interests, experiences, and expectations of each co-creator.

investment in and conscious design of public and private spaces contributes to fostering connections and developing trust that are foundational to the health of our democracies.

ease the initiation of a new encounter (or icebreaking therein) in situations where people are expected to interact.

Proximate, local leadership must be prioritized over distant, centralized control. Relationships, themselves, must be prioritized as essential ends, rather than instrumentalized means toward other ends.