Last year leaders in Poughkeepsie, New York, started the Children’s Cabinet, an organization aimed at bolstering cradle-to-career services and support for the city’s kids. With a wide-ranging agenda, they wanted to figure out how to reach the community for input — and worked with Ceasar McDowell, professor of the practice of civic design and associate head of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). McDowell is an expert in designing public conversations and leads We Who Engage MIT, a project aimed at enhancing outreach. Now the group has issued…
