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WalkTalks: An engagement tool focused on creating community connectionsTRANSCRIPT
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WalkTalks
An engagement tool focused on creating
community connections
Ryan Martinson, Sustainable CalgaryJune 25, 2014
Community of Practice
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WALKTALK FOUNDATION
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Attachment to Place
WalkabilityInformal
Urbanism
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ATTACHMENT TO PLACE
Attachment to Place
WalkabilityInformal
Urbanism
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Community Attachment• The top three drivers of community
attachment
– Social Offerings - Places for people to meet
each other and the feeling that people in
the community care about each other
– Openness - How welcoming the community
is to different types of people, including
families with young children, minorities, and
talented college graduates
– Aesthetics - The physical beauty of he
community including the availability of
parks and green spaces
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WALKABILITY
Attachment to Place
WalkabilityInformal
Urbanism
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WALKING DOESN’T HAPPEN ANYMORE, SO WHY BOTHER… OR DOES IT?
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VEHICLE SPEED
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Link Place
• Street as a facility for the movement of people
• Save time
• Street as a destination in its own right
• Spend time
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INFORMAL URBANISM / TACTICAL URBANISM
Attachment to Place
WalkabilityInformal
Urbanism
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HOW THE EVENT GOES
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First SessionWhat is Martindale?
• Sets the identity of the community
What is a walkable community?
• Sets the goal
What walking trips to you do?
• Sets the Reality
What is stopping you from going more?
• Sets the Barriers
What is good about your current walking trips?
• Builds on the positives
What can we do to break down the barriers?
• Sets the solutions
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Samosas
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Brainstorming
• Rules:
– only positive opportunities
– build on what is good already
– build on networks in area
– group list making on a whiteboard
– no bad ideas
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What Martindale thought of:
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RESULTS
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Some A-ha ideas…
• Hena in the park
• Dogs for dogs
• Paint electrical boxes
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‘Build the social fabric and transform the
isolation within our communities into
connectedness and caring for the whole’
Community –The structure of belonging by Peter Block
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A blend of questions and new ideas
• The traditional conversations that seek to explain,
study, analyze, define tools, and express the desire to
change others are interesting but not powerful.
• Questions open the door to the future and are more
powerful than answers in that they demand
engagement. Engagement in the right questions is
what creates accountability.
Community –The structure of belonging by Peter Block
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Why it might work• ‘Shift our conversations from the problems of
community to the possibility of community.’
• The essence of creating an alternative future
comes form citizen-to-citizen engagement
that constantly focuses on the well-being of
the whole.
Community –The structure of belonging by Peter Block
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Leadership• Leadership is convening and held to three
tasks:
– Shift the context within which people gather.
– Name the debate through powerful questions.
– Listen rather than advocate, defend, or provide
answers.
Community –The structure of belonging by Peter Block