Sarah Wong

n the giv-ing end, all study participants seemed willing to aid a neighbor who approached them for help, and most recounted examples of assisting others in the past.

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.

“Incubation” is a term often used to describe how innovative, risk-taking experiments are protected from regime norms and have the opportunity to take root and sometimes destabilize the Regime.

the thick, robust communities that civil society researchers tout as the ideal — where you have several entry points, and several avenues for deeper participation and leadership

as public cannot interact with the decision makers or planners. They call ‘focus groups’ as the ‘pseudo participation’, as citizens are regarded as the objects of research, who cannot actively participate in policy making process (Innes and Booher, 2000)

Transition design focuses on everyday life in place as the primary context for intervening in wicked problems. Everyday life can be understood as an emergent property of people going about the activity of satisfying their needs. Understanding how people define their needs, and go about satisfying them (or failing to do so) is a key strategy for... See more

The most common reason Americans give for not interacting more with people from different backgrounds is a “lack of opportunity.” This suggests that many Americans may simply not have the chance to interact more because features of their circumstances prevent it. Some (although fewer) say bridging connection simply isn’t a priority for them. Others... See more