1. Planning for
the INTERcultural City
Practice + Visions
Tufts University Intercultural Planning Group
www.sites.tufts.edu/tuftsicp
October 22, 2010
2. Cynthia Silva Parker, Senior Associate,
Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC)
Planning for the INTERcultural City
3. Interaction Institute for Social Change:
…radically influencing how change efforts are
initiated, designed, facilitated and experienced
Our mission is to ignite and sustain social transformation,
catalyze collective action and build collaborative skill to
bring alive our vision of a just and sustainable world.
We accomplish this by providing network-building,
consulting, facilitation and training services designed to
transform communities and organizations and build the
capacity of leaders of social change.
4. Visions of an Intercultural City
“ The very least you can do in your life is to figure out
what to hope for. And the most you can do is live inside
that hope…
What I want is so simple I can’t almost say it;
elementary kindness.
Enough to eat, enough to go around.
The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be
neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That’s about
it.”
Barbara Kingsolver
Animal Dreams
14. THANK YOU for coming!
Notes from the symposium will be posted on the ICP wiki:
http://sites.tufts.edu/tuftsicp/
Attendees will be added to a Google Groups mailing list
announcing future events (with the ability to opt out).
Join us now for dinner in the Cabot mezzanine.
Planning for the INTERcultural City
Editor's Notes
Interculturalism implies that we plan with and not just for our diverse communities and that we actively engage with managing differences in our practiceWe conducted research this spring to understand whether the concept of cultural competency, frequently applied in the field of public health, has found its place in planning curriculaI give an overview of what culturally competent planning is, share highlights from our study’s findings, and discuss its implications for the future