Process
Mutual learning and communicative action

The dialogues emphasize community participation and diversity. Participants range from municipal officials, to fisherman, artists, architects, boaters, commercial river interests, planners, environmentalists, community representatives, students, and others.

Social learning and communicative action ... marks a potential new equilibrium in which the knowledge of citizens begins to achieve a status comparable to that of professionals in a process of mutual learning.
- M. Miles

"The river and its banks have an enormous effect on people when they can experience its power first hand." For this reason, dialogues are convened on and along the rivers. We hold the remaining dialogues on-site under tents and at a variety of local nearby community centers. Site tours are arranged prior to each workshop convened off-site. On-site dialogues emphasize open and equal interchange, allowing all participants to explore complex environmental issues directly.

All River Dialogues are FREE and open to the Public

 

We need a foundation of social art, on which every individual experiences and recognizes himself as a creative being and as a participant in shaping and defining the world.
J. Beuys

Urban River Quality Understanding Living Rivers: Stream Restoration and Daylighting: It's My River!

 

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