Adopting a spirit of welcoming and hospitality in community engagement
practice allows us to talk about beauty, poetry and dreams alongside arterial
roads, public parks and housing. We can also welcome reflection about
the language we use and commit ourselves to ongoing creative inquiry in
our practice. As we attempt to re-imagine the lines and spaces of practice –
studying and using experimental methods to invite others to listen and share
in the multiplicity of voices around them – we discover many points of difference.
Our dream is to welcome multiplicity and difference in our engagement
processes and to illustrate the power of creativity in nurturing inclusion and
community transformation.