The excerpt I read was A Brave New World(remix). The ways in which they try and engage with not only the audience, but also the location(tent city in front of the the structure of city hall, and the individuals themselves was immensely impactful. This ties into our 10 lenses in that they throughtful in pursuing avenues to engage, educate, and empower, it was mind blowing. This tactic of the social protest movement spawned a new trajectory of public and engaged art that had many awesome elements but also failed miserably in other areas. This is a prime example of the interconnectedness of communities and how they overlap with one another. For me this article acts as a keystone for public engagement in the sense that you can look at this example and say "did I think of that" For example during the occupy movement it displaced the local farmers market which had not been considered. That being said the effectiveness of the overall message of actually creating social change through a movement or through community activism was immensely powerful an many lessons can be learned for the organization and execution of such an event.
I really enjoyed this quotes:
"Occupy is to build the capacity for all its participants to learn democratic social engagement skills towards consensus, to build skills of bias awareness, empathic listening, negotiation, non violence and conflict transformation, skills that most folks have never been exposed to, possibly have never even imagined."
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