Co-Creating Collaborative Civic Proposals

A Flourishing Business Model Approach

• Does it make sense to build our urban worlds and future societies by achieving one political issue at a time?

• Why can’t we move or collective thinking and action beyond single-issue social action?

• How might we design civic business models for our cities and society?

A significant design challenge of our time is anticipating the relationships of multiple environmental and social problems as a complex system of nonlinear relationships. However, we cannot think about, model or discuss the relationships well, especially in the heat of discussion with deliberative groups and decision making processes. We need not only better engagement and dialogue processes for citizen deliberative problem solving, we require relevant tools.

In February’s Design with Dialogue Peter Jones workshops a tool for building civic design proposals, based on the Flourishing Business Canvas for strongly sustainable business models.

This visual model enables a participatory mapping of propositions, values, and preferences that might yield significantly better group decisions for sociocultural and ecological development and governance in any planning engagement. For more information on the workshop, please see the Design with DIalogue website.