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APPI
CONFERENCE 2010
Sunday October 17 Welcome Reception (evening), Monday
October 18 Conference Start 9:00am, Tuesday October 19
and Wednesday October 20 to noon
At
The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, Lake Louise, Alberta
A
transformation is afoot...and you’re invited!
Our Conference Theme
What if we aren’t planning to survive? …
and who is planning our future anyway?
We face a complex web of economic, social, cultural
and environmental challenges in our communities. We feel unsettled
and overwhelmed yet we are also energized by a sense of possibility
and future. We endeavour to make a difference. In a world that is
constantly changing, building resilient people and resilient
communities is vital. We are inventive, resourceful, creative,
skilful and clever people who notice what is happening in our
communities. We strive for purposeful decision-making and action. We
see a better way to create our future together. We gather to draw on
our diversity of perspectives as
• professional and aspiring planners
• community leaders
• developers and builders
• other community and development professions
• non-governmental organizations
We are designing an experience with this assumption
in mind: collectively we have solutions—we need to see them, see how
they connect, and determine how to act on them.
Visit our website
http://www.spoken-herd.ca/index.php
for up-to-date information leading up to the conference.
How can you participate?
For
most participants, this experience will look and feel different from
the usual conference. Our assumption is that tapping into the
collective wisdom in the room is what we need at this time. We will
be hosting conversations using a variety of tools including open
space, world café and other tricks we have up our sleeve. The big
name speakers for the conference will be you … our wide range of
delegates! Although there won’t be the standard call for presenters,
in the spirit of an unconference, anyone wishing to make a
presentation will be able to do so. There are two formal
opportunities to present your ideas:
1.
APPI 15 in 5:
A short
and fast PowerPoint presentation consisting of 15 slides of 20
seconds each for a total of five minutes, based on the “PechaKucha”
style.
2.
Invite an audience:
Bring a
poster, a small number of copies of your work, an idea or a
question. Whatever you need to connect with others. We’ll set it up
for you.
Beyond
these two specific opportunities, there will be ample time to share
your ideas and create new ones—it just won’t be refereed and
predetermined ahead of time. There may also be some opportunities
for video submissions and other crazy stuff.
It’s
time to name the elephant in the room. Or the herd of elephants, if
that’s the case. Or at least to point out that there are many
versions of what planning is, and ask what it could be?
October 17-20,
we
gather for the 2010 APPI Conference in Lake Louise to:
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explore how to renew and sustain resilient communities
•
develop new ways of working together within our communities
•
create new connections and relationships for future action
•
discover what planning for the future means in this world of
uncertainty
•
create opportunities to have the conversations you want to have
There is a transformation afoot … and you’re invited.
or contact: Beth Sanders –
beth@populus.ca
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