New proposal at Engagement Strategy
Introduction
Who are we?
We are a collaboration between multiple organizations, actors, and communities across the European Union through the project OpenHeritage. We share the collective aim of creating urban reuse processes through greater inclusion, access to technology, and collaborative governance. Our work takes place in six different communities and neighborhoods in Prädikow, Berlin; Pómaz, Budapest; Centocelle, Rome; Sunderland, London; Praga, Warsaw; and Marquês de Abrantes, Lisbon. Though our contexts are different and unique, we have come together to collaborate and co-create around heritage and the communities that inhabit and surround it.
Why are we writing this?
Within Open Heritage our learning has been invaluable because of the practices co created within our neighborhoods and the diversity of our contexts. We live in polarizing political times where there is serious doubt about the power of the everyday citizen and the inclusiveness and transparency of democratic processes. So at this juncture in our journey, we have made a collective effort to reflect and celebrate the important lessons and principles within our work within heritage, our neighborhoods, and our wider EU community.
How are we writing this?
Within OpenHeritage the title of our project is Organizing, Promoting and Enabling Heritage Reuse through Inclusion, Technology, Access, Governance and Empowerment and we wanted to begin from this text to give the terms greater meaning and connection to our collective project and context. As a result the idea is that each partner would write an statement about a term within the title that connects to their values as an organization within OpenHeritage or within their lab. While there are fewer terms than partners, we resolved the decision of who would write each section through the sortition feature on Decidim. The text itself is being written through the participatory text feature that records each amendment and is open to commentary from those who want to constructively contribute.
