Johnnie Moore

Top down guide to bottom up

Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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Sean Howard catches a good example of questionable thinking about participation. The International Associaton for Public Participation has put out a one pager (pdf) with a remarkably top down notion of getting bottom up involvement.

The language is very telling:

We will keep you informed… we will look to you for advice… we will implement what you decide

This strikes me as patronising and also based on a very reductionist model that seems to think decisions are ideologically separate from implementation.

This is why I think bottom-up is not the same as peer-to-peer. Bottom-up seems to embody the same underlying logic as top down whilst peer-to-peer points to something rather more interesting, complex and challenging.

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