New Economics Foundation and UK Community Participation Network
SUMMARY ✎
Participation Works focuses on the meaning of participation and offers a selection of participation techniques and examples. It contains 21 proven techniques from around the world and shows how to choose between them, how to use them and where to find more information.
The guide provides a very short introduction on participation methods and a description of the main features of each of the 21 selected techniques, some of which may not be applicable to R&I processes. For each technique, the guide presents information on planning and implementing, including duration, budget, venue, staff and expertise. It also offers examples and support information, such as contacts, bibliographies and training opportunities (if existing).
The 21 featured tecniques of community participation are:
- Action Planning
- Act Create Experience (ACE)
- Choices Method
- Citizens Juries
- Community Appraisals
- Community Indicators
- Enspirited Envisioning
- Future Search
- Guided Visualisation
- Imagine!
- Local Sustainability Model
- Open Space
- Parish Maps
- Participatory Appraisal
- Participatory Strategic Planning
- Participatory Theatre
- Planning For Real
- Round Table Workshops
- Social Audit
- TalkWorks
- Team Syntegrity