Short presentation for Boston Planner's Network Graduate Research Salon (Harvard GSD 4/16/10) on my MIT DUSP '09 thesis and connections to new community engagement and tool development for youth participation at the C4FCM's Dept. of Play.

1. Participatory Media
and Collaborative Facilitation:
Developing Tools for
Aligning Values to Practice in Organizations
Danielle Martin
Master in City Planning, MIT ‘10
MIT Community Innovator’s Lab Center for Future Civic Media
04.16.2010

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9. Department of Play
http://departmentofplay.org
The Department of Play (DoP) is a working group of
researchers, developers, and community
practitioners at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media
(C4FCM) bonded by a common value: the design of
new technologies and methodologies to support
youth as active participants in their local urban
neighborhoods.
• Network researchers with
community youth development and
organizing practitioners
in meet-ups and wiki
• Develop
neighborhood explorers’ toolkit
• Support local projects
that share common resources
in Peru, Gaza, Brazil, and Boston

10. Neighborhood Explorers’ Toolkit
We aim to develop easy-to-use, open-source digital toolkits with
corresponding curricula and pedagogical guidance to help young
people:
• Capture neighborhood knowledge by taking
photographs, measuring distances, recording
interviews and constructing local maps
• Represent Share local information as
“spatial narratives” integrating digital media and
mapping in an online platform
• Organize civic engagement initiatives through
an advocacy forum for children and adolescents to
reflect and act critically in their local communities.

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