In recent years, shifting to a virtual community engagement environment has moved from being a mere option to being a necessity.
To address this change, the Cities Deepening Community team led a bi-weekly community of practice series in July and August 2021 that involved diving into ideas of deepening community using four different participatory processes that are adapted for online: Open Space, Conversation Café, Deliberative Dialogue and Fishbowl.
This field note explores the Open Space participatory facilitation process, which invites participants to actively contribute to the agenda for an event and drift between conversations at their own discretion.