How to Host a Public Faculty

A PUBLIC FACULTY IS A tool to listen to what community members really want. In doing so, it provides a good foundation for any programmatic decisions related to public space conversations. By doing it in public spaces, it allows for the diversity of residents’ needs and wants to appear organically in a deep listening context, with openness and without judgment.

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Public Faculties are useful to gather information pertaining to a local community-run project. Public Faculties should be hosted in partnership with local grassroots organizations to make sure that the event has an anchor in the community itself. Before hosting your public faculty, organize a meeting with your team to frame a question that will engage passersby. How the question will be visually communicated is as important as the question itself — eye catching methods tend to grab people’s attention and awaken people’s curiosity.