ChangeCampTO 2010 live-blogs, videos, photos
A huge thank you to our sponsors (Toronto Public Library, Peapod Studios, Samara Canada, Ascentum, Microsoft and OSSTF District 12), our volunteers and our participants for an incredible start to our project to create a civic engagement toolkit and a self-organizing movement of people who create spaces for civic discourse, community dialogue and citizen action.
The event was called ChangeCampTO: Designing a Civic Engagement Toolkit and it took place Tuesday, February 16th at the Bram and Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library.
The event was envisioned as an opportunity to engage a diverse cross-section of people from Toronto (and beyond) who care about civic life into a big, bold collaborative project: using the 2010 municipal elections as the excuse to gather people together in community-based dialogue both face-to-face and online.
This post will be a central place to archive links to content created by our participants at and about this event. That content is after the jump, and this post will be updated as content is published.
Once we collect this content and digest it, we’ll post our analysis of what we did together and some reflections on lessons learned from the event.
A Note on Event Process
This event was not an unconference format at all like a typical ChangeCamp event. It was designed more like a very large scale ChangeLab session that we’ve seen before in Toronto and elsewhere. It focused 200 participants in 3 hours around a single goal: to generate ideas for the kinds of processes, tools and methods that might be in a toolkit we are calling a “Change Kit” also known as “ChangeCamp-in-a-Box”.
This section describes the process, which was developed in collaboration with Erika Bailey, Ryan Coleman, Daniel Rose, Mark Reheja, Greg Judelman, Peter Jones and members of the Design with Dialogue community.
- Reception bar
- Participants gathered in plenary, theatre style seating
- Context setting presentation
- Warm-up talk to your neighbour based on provided questions
- Overview of the design exercise
- Randomized table assignments to breakouts of 8 people with one assigned scribe
- A design brief provided at the table with instructions for the assignment
- 60 minutes of brainstorming ideas, captured on Post-Its and through a table-specific liveblog
- One presenter stays behind to share, while the rest of the table moves one table over to hear report back
- Report back by presenter captured on digital video recorder
- Marketplace, where participants can wander from table to table, leaving comments behind on Post-Its
- Return to plenary, this time standing in closing circle
- Sharing insights and main ideas, giving thanks, recognizing diversity
- Ballot for personal commitment
- Open forum for announcements
- Break to reception bar
Our detailed event design plan is published in this Google Document.
A big thank you to event manager Kate Richards and the contributions of hard-working volunteers Lee Dale, Behrouz Hariri, Natasha Mckenna, Susan Pearn and Duane Brown. We would also like to thank our volunteer table scribes: Michael Cayley, Ian Macpherson, Lori Smith, Natasha Mckenna, Darren Chartier, Meghan Warby, Chiara Camponeschi, Jonathan Laba, Neha Thanki, Connie Crosby, Chad Craig, Marco Campana, Chris Berry, Michael Jones, Jonathan Laba, Bernard Fernandes, Graham Scott, Chris Hayden, Dragan Stojanovic, Patrick Connolly, Melanie Gorka, Greg Judelman, Christopher Wulff, Carsten Knoch, Brian Frank, Nabil Harfoush and Dragan Stojanovic.
Context Setting Presentation
ChangeKit Design Assignment
Live-blogs of Breakout Table Conversations
List of all ChangeCamp live-blogs on Scribblelive: http://changecamp.scribblelive.com/
Aggregate live-blog (all tables in a single stream):
http://changecamp.scribblelive.com/Themes/site/4/AllPosts.aspx
Individual Table Live-blogs
| Table 1 | Table 2 | Table 3 | Table 4 | Table 5 | Table 6 | Table 7 | Table 8 | Table 9 | Table 10 | Table 11 | Table 12 | Table 13 | Table 14 | Table 15 | Table 16 | Table 17 | Table 18 | Table 19 | Table 20 | Table 21 | Table 22 | Table 23 | Table 24 | Table 25 | Table 26 | Table 27 | Table 28 | Table 29 | Table 30 |
Photos of Breakout Table Artifacts
Thanks to Kiana Hayeri for shooting these photos of our work together: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kuznicki/sets/72157623487376076/
Videos of Table Report Backs
Ballots and Results
Will you join us and help make our collective vision a reality?
Total attendees: 192
Yes – 82
Yes, but not sure how – 41
Maybe, I’ll stay in touch – 42
No or blank ballot – 8
No ballot returned – 18
Participant Feedback
View these results in a Google Spreadsheet
View these results in a Google Spreadsheet
Twitter Excerpts
Blog Posts About or Inspired by ChangeCampTO
Thoughts on being an Engaged Citizen by Jeremy Vianna
ChangeCamp: Toronto to London by Brian Frank
The Social Analytics of #ChangeCampTO by Christopher Berry
The Opposite of Open by Mike Smith
A letter to ChangeCampTO exec by Devinder Lamsar
ChangeCampTO in photos by Connect IT
Notes on #ChangeCampTO by Civic Footprint
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[...] would also encourage you to review ChangeCamp’s official wrap-up and analysis of the event, here. We talked about inclusivity being a top priority, and also acknowledged that if we could increase [...]
[...] a diverse team of 10 key roles. Connect IT Alumni Mark Kuznicki, chief organizer of ChangeCamp described the vision of the event: The event was envisioned as an opportunity to engage a diverse cross-section of people from [...]
Lots of awesome content was produced that night.
I’m optimistic about the chances for success with this.
An incredible event! Mark and team did a wonderful job organizing us and setting our mandate. The evening was an excellent forum for gathering people of diverse backgrounds together for a worthy common cause. The facilitators at each table captured all the comments, were inclusive and managed to keep us on topic and on time.
[...] February 16, we attended an interesting event – “ChangeCampTO: Designing a Civic Engagement Toolkit.” A ChangeCamp is a participatory and web-enabled face-to-face event that brings together [...]
[...] Moving forward, a group of ChangeCamp volunteers will be analyzing and synthesizing our ideas, input, and feedback to craft a framework for action. Over the next few months or so, I’ll share some of the dialogues, projects, and lessons, as they emerge and evolve. Until then, you can review all the content we have generated so far on the ChangeCamp blog [...]
Lots of awesome content was produced that night.
I'm optimistic about the chances for succesz with this.;