IF Fellows maintain a more-or-less continual conversation about how to improve sanctuary projects so that they produce Public Discussion Reports better able to spur truly exploratory public discussions. A perennial focus of our discussions is with making sure that the… Read More »
Tag Archives: generating possibilities
May 1, 2010
CONCEPTUAL CHECKLIST–For Reference During Sanctuary Projects
By: Adolf Gundersen
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April 30, 2010
Social Psychology: A Public Policy Blind Spot?
By: Sue Goodney Lea
A recent NOVA episode (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/money/)… Read More » pits the rational
actor theorists within the discipline of Economics against the behaviorists. As a sociologist,
I’ve always been more partial to the behaviorists’ approaches (like Gladwell and the
Freakonomics folks) since I think that
Posted in Perspectives | Also tagged civic engagement, conceptual possibilities, democracy | Comments closed
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February 8, 2010
What is Possible about a Policy Possibility?
By: Dennis Boyer
One of IF’s ongoing tasks is to find the most useful scale and tone for the possibilities in its reports. While we have learned a great deal about how to present possibilities and discuss them, we are still grappling with… Read More »
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October 7, 2009
Using IF with a Group of Faculty
By: dswoboda
I wanted to share my recent experience about using the IF process with a group of faculty at my institution to discuss changing general education requirements. When I attended the 2009 Summer Institute, I considered how to implement IF into… Read More »
Posted in Education | Also tagged educational implications, facilitation, higher education | Comments closed
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September 11, 2009
Dealing with Personalities
By: mgettings
I’m into week two of my IF-oriented course, and I’ m learning more everyday. On Tuesday we had our first official IF-style discussion. I had to bite my tongue often as I suspected, and allow them to generate ideas. I… Read More »
Posted in Education | Also tagged art, conceptual possibilities, participation, shy participants | Comments closed
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June 24, 2009
Generating Possibilities
By: Jeff Prudhomme
Last week I described the Interactivity Foundation’s discussion process as flowing through roughly three stages: generating questions, generating diverse responses to those questions, and then revising those responses by exploring some of their implications or possible consequences. We don’t think… Read More »
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Citizen Staff Work Reports
One of the core aspects of IF is that the policy possibilities in our discussion reports are not developed by politicians and policy wonks, but by citizens for their fellow citizens. Our project facilitators are charged with seeing that our… Read More »
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