We’ve been teaching Working with People workshops at organizations and schools around the country, building capacity for just and equitable collaborations. Recent workshop hosts have included the Center for Urban Pedagogy, the Laundromat Project, the New School, the Design Futures Forum, and the Watson Foundation.

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The Working with People curriculum builds a foundation for equitable partnerships between students, faculty, and community-based groups and non-profit organizations, by exploring the complex and contradictory contexts in which users, collaborators, and organizations live and work. This series of modules, resources, and exercises can be used as a framework to complement existing classes, or as a stand-alone short course or series of workshops in preparation for later partnerships.

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Since 2009, the critical pedagogy project “Working with People” has been developing innovative approaches toward fostering critical conversations around “civic engagement” and the pedagogy and politics of teaching and collaborating “with communities.” Using a framework of critical keywords, and the juxtaposition of their multiple meanings, the project teaches workshops, hosts symposia, develops curricula, and continues to build this website of public media, always looking for new partners and new ways that this work might help spur conversations on complex issues around collaboration, community, power and difference.

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