As we explore what supports meaningful citizenship for people with disabilities and beyond, we want to keep track of what we're learning and share it so that these insights might help as you go out and build strong inclusive communities.Check back to see what we're learning through the project and also please share what you're learning about inclusive citizenship in the comment sections.
Project Citizenship and Skills Society hosted a Lego Serious Play event at the Edmonton Public Library to explore disability and citizenship issues.
Guest article by our main researchers on Project Citizenship, Nancy Spencer-Cavaliere, PhD and Bethan Kingsley PhD Candidate, Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta
Dr. Michael Rowe of Yale University wrote this article for Project Citizenship to further our learning about supporting citizenship of marginalized populations.
In the spring of 2014, Project Citizenship was featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review Magazine.
University of Alberta Anthropology Professor Kathleen Lowrey, wrote this article exploring the relationship between the disability rights movement and the social movements that have come before it
Project Citizenship explores how art and community collaboration helps us learn about disability issues and engaged citizenship.
Carmen Norris, MA researched the power of story to convey messages of inclusion and citizenship of people with disabilities that fly in the face of conventional wisdom
Intersecting Design thinking, creative problem solving, and the social sector to support better quality of life of marginalized populations
Cool Think Tank last Wednesday with SKILLS thought leaders, a U of A researcher and guest Chris Hayduk from C.R.U.D. Community Response to Urban Disorder (CRUD) is a not-for-profit organization that fosters strong and vibrant neighbourhoods through innovative, everyday activities
This is a little more detailed explanation of Project Citizenship than the one on our main page.
SKILLS Society Leader and key player in Project Citizenship, John Macdonald talks about what has helped to capture citizenship stories. He sheds some light on our think tank process and what it takes to capture relevant and empowering stories.
Whether you are designing a service, a product, a power point, a website, a business plan or problem solving a challenge at work, reflect on how you might apply some of Dieter Rams 10 principles to your domain.
Leona on what it is like being treated like a second class citizen because of a disability. From a documentary SKILLS Society and the Nina Haggerty Center for the Arts were involved in called, Through the eyes of artists, Arthouse productions 2004.
John Ralston Saul on people with disabilities and citizenship. From a documentary SKILLS Society and the Nina Haggerty Center for the Arts were involved in called, Through the eyes of artists, Arthouse productions 2004.
Interview with Edmonton Artist with a disability Scott Berry, lead artist of Confusement at the Nina Haggerty Centre 2015