Participation (Decision making)
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Latest revision as of 15:17, 6 July 2014
Participation is ...
- Planning together (co-planning)
- contribution
- not as easy as often thought
- imagination
- fun
- action
- collaboration employed through presence or contribution
- important in community building
- self-engagement
- vital for a smooth co-existence
- being part of the process
- hard work
- democratic necessity and right
- inviting people to share their ideas and values
- democratic (potentially!)
- a quality of democracy
- an act of living in spatial orders
- the best way to learn about something and/on yourself
- be present in certain ways. not just physical
- representation of models of desire / intentions
- great if it benefits everyone
- participatory
- difficult, demanding and a growing expectation (if not practice) for current day governance
- ...being involved and involve other people ...the real democracy *a process
- work / multilingual
- willing to join and give attention or input
- active investment of one's own
- action
- sometimes a pain in the ass
Participation is not ...
- just on a paper
- a product, interests, imposing but co-deciding
- obedience
- me
- good at every step
- direct democracy
- authoritarian (potentially!)
- for strangers
- always great!
- an obligation!
- always helpful
- difficult
- always useful
- free of consequences
- only hearing
- always easy
- a questionnaire
- up to down issue
- easy
- giving voice only for the most active and with most resources to participate
- fetish
- just physically present
- a public meeting or an online survey
- passive
- a solitary action
- a cupcake
