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<span style="color:rgb(70, 70, 70);font-size:12px">Per Michael's question about an "<span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:13px">os event that took place at ground zero in New York,"</span></span></h1>
<h1 style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(209, 27, 26);font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:10px"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:13px">I believe you are referring to the engagement of public citizens facilitated by America Speaks, in February and July '02. These meetings whose description I have pasted below from the AMERICA SPEAKS website were engaging Town Hall Dialogues and not Open Space. </span></h1>
<h1 style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(209, 27, 26);font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;margin-bottom:10px"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:13px">Per 9.11, as a survivor and as a facilitator at the session you inquired about, ironically I am currently in discussions to conduct an Open Space in April, '09, with a group still involved in generating awareness about the experience. </span></h1>
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<span style="color:rgb(70, 70, 70);font-size:12px">For more than a decade, America<em style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">Speaks</em> has used its 21st Century Town Meeting® model to bring together more than 130,000 citizens in deliberations about critical policy issues, and then connect the results to decision-makers. The following link will take you to the info about Michael's question.</span><br>
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CITIZENS REMEMBER AND REBUILD</h2>Soon after the 9/11 attacks, stark differences over the future of the site began to divide survivors, business leaders and residents. Civic leaders and members of the general public feared that business and political interests would prevail unless a broad public consensus emerged and shaped the redevelopment effort. To address this need, the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York asked AmericaSpeaks to develop a project that would transcend these differences and provide decision makers with areas of agreement about the redevelopment of the site. <br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
<br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">Listening to the City brought more than 4,300 people together on July 2, 2002. About 200 more participated in a similar meeting on July 22 and more than 800 participated in an on-line dialogue. An earlier meeting of 600 had impressed the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and the Port Authority so they became co-sponsors of Listening to the City. <br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
<br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">Participants were asked to give their thoughts about six preliminary concepts for the Trade Center site, which the Port Authority of NY and NJ and the LMDC unveiled days before the meeting. Many criticized them as too dense, too dull and too commercial. The poor reception of these concepts by the participants sent the sponsors back to the drawing board. A contest among architectural firms was initiated using the vision and principles that emerged during Listening to the City. <br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">
<br style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px">Listening to the City demonstrated that it is possible for thousands of citizens to come together, deliberate about difficult issues and reach consensus within a charged and complex decision-making process. The process was praised by many decision makers, the media, and architecture and planning leaders as a model for the future.</td>
</tr></tbody></table></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Michael M Pannwitz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmpanne@boscop.org" target="_blank">mmpanne@boscop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Dear colleagues,<br>
people keep asking me about the os event that took place at ground zero in New York. Was there one? Any link? Info?<br>
Thanks and greetings from Berlin<br>
mmp--<br>
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Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg<br>
Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany<br>
++49-30-772 8000<br>
<a href="mailto:mmpanne@boscop.org" target="_blank">mmpanne@boscop.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.boscop.org" target="_blank">www.boscop.org</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>Scott Gassman<br>IdeaJuice<br>(917) 951 - 0258<br><a href="mailto:scott.gassman@gmail.com" target="_blank">scott.gassman@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://www.ideajuices.com" target="_blank">www.ideajuices.com</a><div>
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