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The Move is We Who Engage!

The Move is We Who Engage!

A letter to our followers about our recent renaming.
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Julia Curbera
Updates from The Move MIT

Updates from The Move MIT

Hello everyone!
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Shavelasquez
The Sparking Cycle: From Contemplative Leadership to Meaningful Change and Community…

The Sparking Cycle: From Contemplative Leadership to Meaningful Cha...

“Planners can also be artists in the sense that they have to contemplate the people that they work with in order to understand how they…
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Shavelasquez
Digital Curb Cuts and Design Justice

Digital Curb Cuts and Design Justice

“You can start by thinking about the people who really need it most and are the ones who are going to benefit the most. Then ultimately…
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Julia Curbera
Part 2: Civic Design Workshop Co-Hosted by Florida Gulf Coast Student Leaders and The Move

Part 2: Civic Design Workshop Co-Hosted by Florida Gulf Coast Stude...

“They tried to bury us but they forgot we are the seeds. The Move” — Quote from Student Leader María Andrea Avendano Valderrama
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Julia Curbera
Recent Civic Design Workshop Co-Hosted by Florida Gulf Coast Student Leaders and The Move

Recent Civic Design Workshop Co-Hosted by Florida Gulf Coast Studen...

“We speak with our peers not for our peers” — Florida Gulf Coast Student Leaders
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Shavelasquez
Merging the digital and analog worlds to “pass the mic” to those at the margins

Merging the digital and analog worlds to “pass the mic” to those at...

“[When we focus] more on national and not local…you’re losing all of the stories about what’s happening right here at home and in your…
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Shavelasquez
Protective Housing and Community Land Trusts

Protective Housing and Community Land Trusts

“What is something that you can change to say, you were only letting two people in the door, and now with just a change in language, now…
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Julia Curbera
Setting the table for community empowerment

Setting the table for community empowerment

“Set the table for communities to, in a sense, self-govern and take back…land that they themselves can use, both for recreation and…
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Shavelasquez
Values and Value: The Boston Impact Initiative

Values and Value: The Boston Impact Initiative

In a local context, you understand the impact that your money is having in a much tighter feedback loop. — Lindsay Smalling, CEO of Social…
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Julia Curbera
Building Relationships, Inside and Out

Building Relationships, Inside and Out

Takeaways from a Conversation with David Wertheimer
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We Who Engage
Tapestry Interventions: Highlights from Emerson College’s Engagement Lab

Tapestry Interventions: Highlights from Emerson College’s Engagemen...

I think we need to shift expectations while redoing the work of design, which is working with the organizations having the most impact on…
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Julia Curbera
What’s The Move?

What’s The Move?

The Move is a movement to rebuild our public’s resilience for the difficult conversations necessary for a functioning democracy.
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We Who Engage
Collaboration for Economic Justice: The Boston Ujima Project

Collaboration for Economic Justice: The Boston Ujima Project

The Boston Ujima Project is about the creation and growth of community-based, democratically-instituted economy.
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Misael Galdamez
Place It!: Collaboration through Construction

Place It!: Collaboration through Construction

Place It! is a civic engagement practice and method founded by James Rojas, which combines art making, playing, and story building.
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Misael Galdamez
Organizing for Delight

Organizing for Delight

“How do you rethink the relationship folks have with city government? … How do you start to feel welcomed even if you’re going to pay a…
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Julia Curbera
Social Infrastructure for Common Ground

Social Infrastructure for Common Ground

“What kind of infrastructure is needed for people to make sense of the complexities of reality? …We need spaces with which to acknowledge…
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Julia Curbera
Leading with Race: The Government Alliance on Race and Equity

Leading with Race: The Government Alliance on Race and Equity

GARE is a national network of governments who are working towards goals of racial equity.
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Misael Galdamez
Planners are People Too

Planners are People Too

Does democracy always needs to be so confrontational? Misael Galdamez reflects on his summer internship.
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Misael Galdamez
Rooted Planning: Amplifying Existing Community Networks

Rooted Planning: Amplifying Existing Community Networks

“I take a lot of my learning and inspiration around networks from the field of permaculture — the notion in sustainable agriculture that…
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Ayushi Roy
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