At the recent Technology for Participatory Planning workshop, one of the suggestions for follow-up was to look back at a completed planning process, map it out step-by-step, and find places where inserting technology might have improved things. Frank from RPA blogged it out here. Even just the first step, mapping out a planning process, is certainly a useful exercise. (In fact, Rob Goodspeed and I were recently dreaming of a website that does just that for past and current projects, but that’s a subject for another post).
So, in the spirit of keeping the momentum and discussion going, RPA will be hosting an event next week, where we’ll choose a project (or a series of projects), map out the process as it happened, and then insert opportunities for technology. Kind of a planning project autopsy. Here are the details:
When: Wednesday 12/2, 6:30pm.
Where: RPA’s Union Square office, 4 Irving Place (the ConEd building).
Please RSVP: http://bit.ly/5aQw16
If you like this kind of thing and want to join the ongoing conversation, head on over to the #planningtech Google Group.
Hope to see you there!
One Trackback
[...] last night’s PlanningTech workshop, we diagrammed out planning processes to see where the insertion of technology might have been helpful. The processes we looked at [...]