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The art and social-ecology
team at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry has experimented with
a process we call community dialogue, which builds upon the idea
of information planning presented by Leonie Sandercock:
"The emphasis is less on what the planners know and more on how they use and distribute their knowledge; less on their ability to solve problems and more on opening up debate about them. In this model planning is about talk, argument and shaping attention." We work to conduct a dialogue with a community/communities over time about a postindustrial site and its value. Most of these sites are considered dumps or wastelands. Our team works to identify the cultural and aesthetic issues that produced the current form of the place, as well as the science of its attendant ecological condition at its present point in time. Our project teams are designed and developed to transform perception, reframe operative values and tease out a range of alternative approaches to post-industrial restoration, reclamation and redevelopment.
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