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Participatory planning

Participatory planning or ‘Planning for Real’, and other methods for involving the public in the design of solutions mainly pioneered around urban design and architecture by Tony Gibson. More recently similar ideas have been adopted by the product design field.

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cate.newnessmith@youngfoundation.org
03 Mar 2010

There is lots of potential to use technology in more exciting ways in conferences, to simultaneously tap into the minds of 100 or even 1000 people. It could be used to allow a little or a lot of audience participation, for example:

• Decide what to focus the conference on, based on the key issues that people raise
• Have everybody contributing content that can then be displayed via an overhead screen
• Grouping the content to bring out themes
• Suggesting and voting on actions to be taken

I have come across one comapny which provides such a technology:

http://www.crystal-interactive.co.uk

I am sure that there are other good ones out there too.