Our Learning
Reflections on Calderdale Conversations
Reflections on Public Square's work with Calderdale Council - prototyping new approaches to listening to residents.
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Five things we learned from the Agora di Messina project
The Agora Di Messina Project took a group of citizens through a unique exploration of democratic engagement in Sicily, culminating in a festival of democracy that they organised themselves.
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Public Square and Playbooks
Read some of our early thinking about playbooks, which shaped this web resource.
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Prototypes for a new kind of conversation
An update about prototyping in Calderdale. Residents, officers and an elected member working together on a plan to get prototypes out and about and into action.
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How Merlin helped us understand how to talk about our Public Square project
Andrew Peacock, of Calderdale Council, explains the techniques we used to help us understand how we could communicate about their Public Square project, which envisages a different kind of relationship between citizens and the council.
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Understanding what makes an area different
One thing we need to understand about Public Square's pilot areas is to what extent lessons drawn from them can be applied to the rest of the country.
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