Dialogue & Inclusion: Midtown Wednesdays Conversation Matrix
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Photo: Alice Merkel
The Midtown Wednesdays Conversation Matrix was built for Midtown Wednesdays, an I-Open Civic Forum convened by Chancellor University (formerly Myers University) in Cleveland, Ohio.
The matrix (screenshot below) is a tool to loosely organize conversations at a shared level of inquiry from several perspectives.
Midtown Wednesday forums sought to examine three questions:
1. What is our innovation opportunity?
2. What is our creative industry opportunity? and,
3. What is our global opportunity?
Further framing of conversations via the categories of the Innovation Framework - a heuristic model for innovation investment in Open Source Economic Development - helps coordinators, communicators, and conveners guide community learning.
Matrices provide an under gird for conversations in their generation of social networks, collaborative economic development projects, and new business development.
You can learn more about Midtown Wednesdays, a public-private partnership to strengthen economic development in Cleveland, hosted by Chancellor University, the City of Cleveland's Department of Economic Development, National City Bank, and I-Open in 2006 at I-Open's Civic Projects.
Midtown Wednesdays Conversation Matrix
Copyright 2010 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave 3rd Fl Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA.
