If you wandered in by accident or worked at finding this link, you have begun an extraordinary adventure.
This ‘library’ contains the collective work of EI and ICA colleagues. Here you will discover presentations, books, memoirs, stories, and publications. Institute staff members dedicate themselves to building models and sharing methods that create lively groups. These are practical skills, participation tools, and consciousness building for use in organizations, businesses, and communities. Their uses documented here in case studies and examples have contributed to movements of citizen participation, community development, nation building, and organization transformation across the world since the early 1960s.
Summarizing this website are a Roadmap Infograph, an audio Overview and a slideshow of a 60 Year Blueprint for Global Social Innovation.
Four categories hold the website organization:
- ARCHIVE COLLECTIONS: the heart of the archives, organizes the 60-year history of work into nine collections. A video walkthrough of the collections can be seen HERE (best followed on a computer).
- WHO WE ARE: introduces the Institutes, highlights historical events in four year segments, and describes its values.
- RESOURCES: includes some 200 books written by Institute colleagues, monthly periodicals, and personal writings.
- MEMORIALS: highlights the lives of people who were social pioneers in the Institutes work since the 1960s.
Enjoy!