How can we have a tangible impact on the world?

Fady Atallah, Creative Director of Cities at Moment Factory, is frustrated with the inertia that permeates Canada on many levels: he feels it has the potential to do more. As recent global events show, it’s possible to change the systems currently in place. Fady wants to change the citizen’s role from passive to active but how to do it? He enlists the help of:

🔹 Jennie Glazer, CEO at Coqual, The Centre for Talent Innovation; and

🔹 Paul Propster, Chief Story Architect, NASA/JPL StoryLab (Retired)

in this ninth episode of The More the Brainier.

Together, they tackle his burning question: How can I switch from citizen-spectator to active participation in an increasingly turbulent world?

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Covered in this episode

• Ovations: standing or sitting?
• Moment Factory
• Citizen spectator – experience as a citizen
• Inertia at different levels: federal: infrastructure: municipal and arts/cultural
• The potential for change in public urban space
• What to change and how, micro to macro
• Thinkers: Henry Jenkins: civic engagement: building a story to include the collective; Marshall Ganz: story of me, story of us, story of now; Amy Edmunsdon: psychological safety: creating safe spaces
• How do we design for trust and not compliance?
• Do we need a civic overhaul or more to create moments that remind people that they belong?
• The need for new language: flip the perspective to create traction, motivation
• Writing a document of reference
• Designing for agency, with conviction.

Fady Atallah (Main guest); Paul Propster; Jennie Glazer

Host: Christine Renaud, Braindate

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This episode of The More the Brainier was produced by Christine Renaud and Jane Gibb. Editing and sound engineering by Jenya Sverlov and Chris Leon.