Register from 1-6pm and join us in a World Cafe style dialogue to discuss the future of Vancouver. How do we make Vancouver the greenest city in the world by 2020? Come and contribute your thoughts in an afternoon of creativity and audacious thinking. The content generated from the event will be reported to Vancouver’s new Green City Action Team. Join us after 6pm for a casual open lounge and network with other like minds. Enjoy music and displays of audacious visions for Vancouver!

Event Information:

• Friday, March 20th, 2009
• Pacifica Photography Studio, 821 Powell St.

1-6 p.m. Greenest City Dialogue - Registration Only

• What’s your audacious vision for Vancouver?
• Roundtable discussions to create the greenest city in the world. Collaborate, dialogue, and contribute.

Register online for the Greenest City Dialogue

6 p.m. Lounging in Sustainability - Open to the Public

• Open house for relaxed dialogue and networking
• All are welcome at both events!

About the Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue at SFU:

The Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue addresses what we believe is the principal challenge for contemporary education: to inspire students with a sense of civic responsibility, encourage their passion to improve Canadian society, and develop innovative intellectual tools for effective problem solving. Each semester we develop an original and intensive learning experience that uses dialogue to focus student education on public issues.

Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue Students - Designing the Future 2009

Dialogue is a particularly effective educational paradigm, involving collaborative listening and learning to discover meaning among diverse participants, and is best conducted in the context of citizenship and civic engagement. Dialogue offers helpful ways to relate to one another, and leads to better-quality outcomes than the adversarial, position-based discussions that typically characterize debate about complex issues. Dialogue-based processes build deep relationships through free expression of views and respectful exploration of differences, with positive action emerging through mutual understanding around sources of agreement and disagreement.