We were blown away by the great turnout at last Friday’s Tech for Participatory Planning workshop.  Thanks to RPA for hosting with us, and to everyone who came out for a great afternoon of lightning talks, brainstorming, and discussion.  It’s clear that we just scratched the surface here, and we raised way more questions than answers.

The questions we closed with were: what was your “a-ha moment?”  about technology and city planning, and, more importantly, what should we do next to dig deeper into these issues?   Scanning the Blogosphere, Frank from RPA has already written up two concrete ideas: Tech / planner speed dating and Mapping the state of collaborative planning.  Both a are worth a read, and we’ll be posting other ideas here as they surface.

For follow-up, we’ve joined forces with Christian Madera, host of the excellent City Planning, Civic Engagement and the Internet Summit at Princeton last spring, and will be conversing over at the PlanningTech Google Group that came out of that event.  The raw notes from Friday’s workshop have been posted there already.

Looking forward to what’s next…