Build With, Not For

Susan Crawford writing about overcoming the digital divide in Chicago:

“Community foundations around the country need to support intermediaries that can reach deep into neighborhoods and work with, not for communities”

...citing Smart Chicago and Laurenellen McCann’s #buildwith approach.

MARKET STREET PROTOTYPING FESTIVAL: “DESIGNING WITH AND FOR COMMUNITIES”.

A collaborative competition to design new ways of using public space in San Fransisco. April 2015. Their website notes their “with and for” approach and includes the following:

“...what the writer as termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not for, the oppressed (whether individuals or people) in the incessant struggle to regain their humanity.”

Charlene Carruthers, Black Youth Project 100, organizing on Black Friday during a march down the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, Illinois, demanding justice and accountability for Laquan McDonald and other victims of policy viloence. November 27, 2015.

“...international agencies involved typically aimed to work for rangeland users, but not with them. But there were even more fundamental flaws in the approach....”

-- Ben Ramalingam, Aid on the Edge of Chaos. 2013.

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