Talk:Vision and purpose/@comment-121.45.197.245-20111215040809

Wow, I like the progress here. Do these represent the outcome of the last plenary workshop?

(1) "Vision and Purpose": The sentiments expressed here seem to come down to lifestyle supporting environment and environment supporting lifestyle. Great concept.

(2) "Vision": Most of the tentative vision statements here encompass the future of the Canberra region. This is an interesting development: it's more specific geographically than the earlier "controlling vision" draft but less specific in terms of the values it seeks to incorporate. The final skeleton here, with the four bullet points, is quite different, being a vision for the hub alone and specific in what the hub should demonstrate. It perhaps concerns the hub's purpose rather than what we're seeking to bring about through fulfilling that purpose. Even in that context, it occurs to me that demonstration may be too narrow an expression of that purpose. Are we seeking also to connect, to educate (via concepts and visions as well as demonstrations), to create something conducive to engagement?

One significant development is expression of a vision statement (at least, the first two expressions of it here) in terms of the outcome rather than the effort to obtain it. Doing so would clarify its relationship with the statement of purpose.

(3) "Purpose": what the second expression here offers over the statement the first group had reached are:

• specific mention of linking and engaging groups;

• broadening demonstrated options from dealing with food to the broader concept of sustainable living (does this reflect the consensus?);

• bringing one of the "fostering" statements from the first group's vision statement—fostering mutually supportive communities—into the purpose statement.

Does its exclusion of the other "fostering" statements reflect a consensus concern with the broader matter of sustainability rather than merely with food? Or has a consensus on a food focus been overlooked here? Can anybody say with certainty?

Thanks!

John