Tim Dawson: Deliberative Theater and the Art of Democracy

Tim Dawson: Deliberative Theater and the Art of Democracy

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Tim Dawson: Deliberative Theater and the Art of Democracy

Tim Dawson: Deliberative Theater and the Art of Democracy

Sun, Mar 29, 2015, 1:00pm
  • Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the Humanities Center at CMU
  • Trust Arts Education Center
  • Ticket Prices
    Festival Pass: $20 for general admission; $10 for students

Tim Dawson is a writer, theater artist, and a Ph.D. Candidate in Rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University. Formerly a program manager at Carnegie Mellon's Program for Deliberative Democracy and a director of community outreach programs for Pittsburgh's Unseam'd Shakespeare Company, Tim is the founder of The Art of Democracy, a consultancy that engages difference as a resource for civic innovation by facilitating opportunities for informed and inclusive public engagement among citizens, community groups, and public officials. Deliberative Theater capitalizes on theater’s ability to concisely represent the various and complex ways that beliefs, situated knowledge, and expert information can come together to inform different perspectives, competing policy proposals, and people’s actions on critical issues. It allows people to consider hypothetical interactions between the various “moving parts” of a complex issue, and helps them gain greater clarity and depth of understanding than can be realized by seeing each “part” in isolation. Deliberative Theater also humanizes complex issues, providing people with an access point for public policy discussions that may otherwise seem overwhelmingly technical or removed from everyday experience.

Trust Arts Education Center, Fourth Floor

This event is part of the Pittsburgh Humanities Festival. Learn more here.

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