Working in a dynamic project

The last week was somewhat of a rollercoaster for the One Day group. We have spent a lot of time in the last few weeks defining our task. The more freedom you have in a project the more time you need to decide in what direction you want the project to go. So to get some guidance we sat down with Peter McCleod who is a good friend of the Kaospilots. He had a lot of good input for our project. We discussed what is needed for public or social change to occur. Peter gaves us four ways in which those changes are initiated:
1. The Carrot – creating incentives for people to do something.
2. The Stick – creating disincentives for people to stop doing something
3. The Sermon – the lecture/dishing out shame/the entice - informing people on the situation
These three actions are the most common to initiate public change, but there is also a fourth, which Peter feels is the most effective.
4. The speedometer – showing people the effect of their actions. Creates empowerment when people are directly informed on what consequences their actions have.

The session with Peter was a very good one and many of us in the group started seeing the project in a new way. We will definitely take his input and make use of it in our project. This was not the only big thing that happened this week. We also had a workshop. We had an idea development workshop about how we can create incentives to become more sustainable in our everyday lives and what we can do to become more green in Vancouver. We invited Vancouverites to the workshop to get the local view and find out what they want for their city's future. We got a lot of new and exciting ideas from the participants that will most likely find their way into our project. So stay tuned for more news from the One Day group who is one big step closer to defining their project.