Facilitating Change

Contribute to the Memorial of Weeds

Memories, stories, dreams, visions, photos, newspaper clipping, city plans, archives — you name it, we want it to publish in an upcoming book: Memorial of Weeds: Wildest Dreams for Our Urban Cores. I’m helping Montreal artist Emily Rose Michaud, the force behind the Mile End’s Roerich Garden, to produce a book that will document community happenings [...]

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Malcolm Gladwell: Geek Pop Star

Good article in New York Magazine about Gladwell. Malcolm Gladwell’s elegant and wildly popular theories about modern life have turned his name into an adjective — Gladwellian! But in his new book, he seeks to undercut the cult of success, including his own, by explaining how little control we have over it. I love that he had [...]

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Report from Webcamp Montreal, Part 3

Final part of this report: developing a digital plan for Quebec — Un Plan Numerique pour le Québec. We decided to Collaboratively create a first draft using a wiki. The city of Melbourne, one participant pointed out, uses a wiki for Future Melboure, the community of Melbourne’s long-term plan for the future direction of all aspects [...]

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Montreal

Almost 3:30AM. Instead of sleeping I read the thoughts and followed the connections between the people I’ve been meeting in Montreal. I am so aware of coming in to the middle of a conversation. Into the middle of something that’s already busy and vibrant and been going on for a long time now. And what [...]

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Report from Webcamp Montreal, Part 2

As promised, here is Part 2 of my report from Webcamp Montreal. Again, only the shiny stuff… If you recall, we were talking about conversations and community. A community has to have: 1. une memoire / a memory 2. des sujets communs / shared topics I relate to the idea of a shared memory. I met a fellow Franco-Ontarian this [...]

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