Seminar Series 1: Lecture 5 - Denys Candy
The Art of Engagement
Key ideas:
- Partnership working should be about having mutually trusting relationships. Insider / outsider role important in work with communities.
- Essence - to work in an effective and accepted way in any area, it is important to try to capture the essence of this area.
- 'The periphery' - to be at the periphery can be both positive (innovation possible at the periphery) and negative (excluding; 'peripheralisation')
- Perspective - of different groups / people, and from different geographical locations.
About the speaker
Denys Candy had a decades long career as a community organizer focused on Creative Regeneration, the process of collaboratively designing and deploying resident-driven initiatives in communities impacted by disinvestment, demolition and displacement.
He founded a consulting cooperative based in Pittsburgh, PA that joined with residents and public and private sector stakeholders to pilot innovative initiatives addressing interdependent aspects of community health - economic, ecological, physiological (incorporating mental health), educational and socio-cultural. This work emerged as a laboratory of sorts for addressing the abandonment by capital of post-industrial places. It included brokering ethical partnerships between regions, neighborhoods and universities. He was a lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh, visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and the National University of Ireland (his home country)
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