Participatory Media and Collaborative Facilitation: ���

Developing Tools for Aligning Values to Practice in Organizations

Danielle Martin Master in City Planning, MIT ‘10

MIT Community Innovator’s Lab & Center for Future Civic Media

04.16.2010

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Department of Play http://departmentofplay.org

•  Network researchers with community youth development and organizing practitioners in meet-ups and wiki

•  Develop neighborhood explorers’ toolkit

•  Support local projects that share common resources in Peru, Gaza, Brazil, and Boston

The Department of Play (DoP) is a working group of researchers, developers, and community practitioners at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media (C4FCM) bonded by a common value: the design of new technologies and methodologies to support youth as active participants in their local urban neighborhoods.

We aim to develop easy-to-use, open-source digital toolkits with corresponding curricula and pedagogical guidance to help young people:

•  Capture neighborhood knowledge by taking photographs, measuring distances, recording interviews and constructing local maps

•  Represent & Share local information as “spatial narratives” integrating digital media and mapping in an online platform

•  Organize civic engagement initiatives through an advocacy forum for children and adolescents to reflect and act critically in their local communities.���

Neighborhood Explorers’ Toolkit

http://verdesmoke.com