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For designing a better world through transformative dialogue
Welcome to Agoras for Dialogue. An agora is a public place for meeting and exchanging, a commons of ideas and interaction. The Agora of Athens birthed Western democracy, creating a venue for public exchange of ideas among Athenians. The Web offers new possibility for open exchange and democratic expression, which we offer in "Blogora."
Our challenge of supporting authentic dialogue in cyberspace confronts many groups, cultures, and disciplinary communities across the globe. In this artificial world, we need to construct new ways of supporting dialogue. You have entered a marketplace of ideas where we embrace this challenge.
Join us!
First, join us in conversation on this collaborative wikisite. Make comments now, or request access (via Wetpaint) to be a "Writer" to make your own pages to express ideas for exchange with others.
Next, join us in dialogue. We are a community of disciplined dialogue practitioners, advocates of Structured Dialogic Design (SDD), enabling people from all walks of life to experience a new geoemetry and a new technology of democracy.
A free software offer for democratic design and collaboration *
Then, let us together take on the complex challenges of our time to which we are called. Among these are the challenge of peacemaking in our world and comunities. We haveThe devotedBlogora pageshosts incoverage thisand siteconversation toof the current dialogues and breakthrough projects in Cyprus. -
Also Seesee the latest article here by Vigdor Schreibman. on the Cyprus Civil Society dialogues.
Dialogue for Democratic Action
This conversations on the Blogora wiki actively engage the practices of dialogue for democratic action and transformation. Should you browse this site, you will see some of us have strong ideas about effective process. We do not believe we have the only answers. We invite you to share your ideas.
Join us in conversation about the power of dialogue and the paths to social and organizational transformation. Some of you may believe that dialogue is an end in itself. Others have different ways of progressing to democratic action. If we share our methods with open minds, we may find powerful agreement toward proceeding together in wicked problems.
* The offer of the download of Cogniscope I continues, in memory of our friend Dr. Hasan Özbekhan, Club of Rome co-founder and original systems thinker who created the foundation for the practice of structured dialogic design.
Welcome. Ken, Tom, Peter, and Aleco
And friends at:
P.S. Yes, it's a wiki not a blog, but Blogora worked better than Agorawiki. Feel free to link to your blog from here, and vice-versa. The value is in the network, in the exchange.
Browse the whole site quickly using the Sitemap!
| Richard Rorty, American thinker and philosopher of social justice, said moral insight “is a matter of imagining a better future, and observing the results of attempts to bring that future into existence.” This is a core function of democratic action dialogue as promoted by structured dialogic design. |
Welcome to Agoras for Dialogue. An agora is a public place for meeting and exchanging, a commons of ideas and interaction. The Agora of Athens birthed Western democracy, creating a venue for public exchange of ideas among Athenians. The Web offers new possibility for open exchange and democratic expression, which we offer in "Blogora."
Our challenge of supporting authentic dialogue in cyberspace confronts many groups, cultures, and disciplinary communities across the globe. In this artificial world, we need to construct new ways of supporting dialogue. You have entered a marketplace of ideas where we embrace this challenge.
Join us!
First, join us in conversation on this collaborative wikisite. Make comments now, or request access (via Wetpaint) to be a "Writer" to make your own pages to express ideas for exchange with others.
Next, join us in dialogue. We are a community of disciplined dialogue practitioners, advocates of Structured Dialogic Design (SDD), enabling people from all walks of life to experience a new geoemetry and a new technology of democracy.
A free software offer for democratic design and collaboration *
Then, let us together take on the complex challenges of our time to which we are called. Among these are the challenge of peacemaking in our world and comunities. We haveThe devotedBlogora pageshosts incoverage thisand siteconversation toof the current dialogues and breakthrough projects in Cyprus. -
Also Seesee the latest article here by Vigdor Schreibman. on the Cyprus Civil Society dialogues.
Dialogue for Democratic Action
This conversations on the Blogora wiki actively engage the practices of dialogue for democratic action and transformation. Should you browse this site, you will see some of us have strong ideas about effective process. We do not believe we have the only answers. We invite you to share your ideas.
Join us in conversation about the power of dialogue and the paths to social and organizational transformation. Some of you may believe that dialogue is an end in itself. Others have different ways of progressing to democratic action. If we share our methods with open minds, we may find powerful agreement toward proceeding together in wicked problems.
* The offer of the download of Cogniscope I continues, in memory of our friend Dr. Hasan Özbekhan, Club of Rome co-founder and original systems thinker who created the foundation for the practice of structured dialogic design.
Welcome. Ken, Tom, Peter, and Aleco
And friends at:
| The Institute for 21st Century Agoras | Harnessing Collective Wisdom |
| Dialogic Design International | Lovers of Democracy |
P.S. Yes, it's a wiki not a blog, but Blogora worked better than Agorawiki. Feel free to link to your blog from here, and vice-versa. The value is in the network, in the exchange.
Browse the whole site quickly using the Sitemap!
