This document discusses enabling self-organization in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to promote innovation and resilience. It outlines how focusing on catalyzing connections between needs, opportunities, resources, information, and vehicles for community participation can build capacity for communities to self-organize, rather than treating symptoms of dysfunction. This approach respects local autonomy and diversity while avoiding silos, rules that compete across jurisdictions, and "experts" that crowd out community voices.
30. Needs and opportunity Resources Information Vehicles for Connection Capacity to self-organize
31. Needs and opportunity Resources Information Vehicles for Connection Feedback loops Capacity to self-organize strings lack of capacity siloed Rules and regulations Competing jurisdictions Withheld Foundations’ Theories of Change Non-existent Gate keepers institutions distrust ‘ Experts’ and ‘expertise’ crowding out the local
Jane Jacobs. The ‘kind of problem’ a city is: organized complexity. Warren Weaver.
Natural; material; transit map (thanks Michael), neighborhood map of New Orleans: always changing and u Forms of p for debate. FORMS OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE
Overlapping ‘systems’; nesting.
Flood maps. Reflects: river because of natural subsidence did not flood: lake and systems of canals flooded. Not a natural disaster: ‘man-made’ but WHO/WHICH men responsible?
John Logan, Brown University. Tells us a number of things: african-american community (also disproportionately poor) affected most; that newer parts of the city were at greater risk and these were generally settled by african american middle class post civil rights; across flood plains and enabled by federally funded infrastructure programs.
Waited to see what would ‘emerge’: no set program, no proscribed ‘theory of change’, patient board (up to a point).
Describe hubs and links.
Things that impede/affect.
New Orleans was far-right of this diagram: and is being compelled towards the left by circumstance and reality.