Imagine...

The Puget Sound Region in 2100.

Puget Sound as a model for Community Development in an emerging global reality.

A personal, family, community and regional commitment to balance

1.) sustainable economic development.

2.) enhanced quality of life in vibrant natural environment.

3.) extraordinary opportunities for "cradle-to-grave" education.

4.) fundamental commitments to diverse people and a social contract affording all real opportunity and dignity.

A "beta site" for learning how to make "community in the world" work.

A public con-spiracy (breathing together) of citizens mapping the new territory of democratic practice

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Media Partnerships, Stories and Images of our Collective Future.

A "vision documentary" exploring the new possibilities being created by inventive technologies and minds in this region shown on all stations.
Community dialogues via televised electronic town hall meetings, community networks, web pages and whatever is new presenting common and diverse stories of community building and hope.
A feature length, dramatic film, the "Art Gang"--the story of a diverse, talented group of young people who confront regional leadership with a picture of today's reality by taking over the airwaves with a message of hope--exploring the large myths of change and the heroes journey toward liberation.
Challenging the community to redefine cultural progress beyond merely material advancement.
Visual artists creating compelling icons that represent hope for the future.
Regular pages of local daily newspapers featuring "civic journalism" where dialogue around polarized issues evolve to common ground.
Mapping the nature of social organization so that it is understandable.

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Learning and Communication via

A CD ROM product that takes "SimCity" and pushes it to ask questions of the whole social and economic system for the future of Puget Sound.
An interactive "kiosk" cube at the Seattle Center and tied to regional civic spaces telling stories of diverse communities and hopes for the future.
A card game like "Magic" or "Scruples" that brings challenge of community problem solving and adventure into the lives of young people developing citizen responsibility.
A contest run in all regional schools asking the imaginative minds to describe the most hopeful future they can.
A "regional panorama theatre" as a part of the Odyssey Maritime Museum that tells a broad ecological story of the Puget Sound.
Community service initiatives with adults and youth that contribute to the common good.

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Community Engagement & Revitalizing the Democratic Prospect.

A structure of regional Forums bringing diverse people together to learn and practice democratic dialogue and community building.
Thinking Person's Breakfast book inquiry sessions that engage civic leadership in thinking about new ideas and practices concerning leadership, community and the future.

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A Civic Leadership Development Network.

An advanced "Leadership Tomorrow" program weaving together the incredible talents of the next generation of leaders bringing together Leadership Tomorrow, Harvard University's Kennedy School Executive Program, Alki Foundation, Governors' School for Citizen Leadership, UW's Cascade Institute, City of Seattle Innovation Project, American Society for Training and Development, Organization Development Network, et cetera.
A community forum series teaching all how to live with the complexity of change.

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E-Mail Steve Boyd, Creator of the Washington State Governor's School, to tell