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Videos | Case Studies | Publications | Discussions

Videos

• Visit the IC YouTube Channel to view videos.

Case Studies

• United Way

• 24 Hours to Launch Imagine Scotland

• Citizen Leaders: Inspiring Community Innovation

• The Whole World Gets Well

• Chicago Case Study in Intergenerational Appreciative Inquiry (1995)

• Bloomin Communities or Communities in Bloom

• Discovering the Strengths of Our Community and Our Leaders

• Imagine St. Helens

• Connections that Work

• Imagine Celebration 2002

Publications

Books, Book Chapters and Journal Articles

• Browne, B. W., Basheeruddin, Y., Browne, E. (2003). Women Alive! A Legacy of Social Justice: A Tribute to Chicago’s Pioneering Women. Imagine Chicago.

• Browne, B. W. (2003). Liberating Imagination About Aging. Foresight, 5 (6), 69-72.

• Browne, B. W. (2005). Imagine Chicago: Cultivating Hope and Imagination. In Newnes, C., & Radcliffe, N. (2005). Making and Breaking Children's Lives. PCCS Books.

• Browne, B. W. (1998). Lessons from the field: Applying appreciative inquiry (Hammond, S., Royal, C., Eds.). Plano, TX: Practical Press, Inc.

• Browne, B. W. (2002). Forbingelser Til Imagine Chicago (pp.265-289). In Dalsgaard, C., Meisner, T., & Voetmann, K. (Eds.). Værdsat: værdsættende samtaler i praksis. Copenhagen: Psykologisk Forlag.

• Browne, B. W., Jain, S. (2002). Imagine Chicago: Ten Years of Imagination in Action. Chicago, IL: Imagine Chicago.

• Browne, B.W., Adelman, C.B., (2014) How Do We Make Room For All? The Power of Context in Shaping Action (pp.120-132) In Larsen, A.K., Sewpaul, V., & Hole, G.O. (Eds.) Participation in Community Work: International Perspectives. New York: Routledge.

• Browne, B.W. (2019). Inkluderende faellesskaber i et nyt lys:at soge efter helheden (pp.79-93) In Kristensen, Rene (Editor), Flere Fantastiske Forbindelser Copenhagen:Dafolo.

• Browne, B.W. (2002) Cultivating Hope and Imagination. in Journal of Future Studies. VOL. 7 NO.1 AUG. 2002, pp. 115-134.

• Browne, B.W. (2009) An Inspired Future: The Significance of City-wide Conversations in Chicago. In AI Practitioner May 2009 Volume 11 Number 2 ISBN 978-1-905822-97-3, pp.28-33.

Discussion of Imagine Chicago by Other Authors

• Cooperrider, D. L. (1996). The Child as Agent of Inquiry (Vol. 28). Organizational Development Practitioner.

• Cooperrider, D. L., Whitney, D., & Stayros, J. M. (2003). Appreciative Inquiry Handbook: The First in a Series of AI Workbooks for Leaders of Change. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. (preview)

• New Economic Foundation (1998). Imagine (pp.28). Participation Works! : 21 techniques of community participation for the 21st century.

• Gergen, K. J. (2001). Social Construction in Context. SAGE.

• Hackney, S. (1999). One American Indivisible: A National Conversation on American Pluralism and Identity. National Endowment for the Humanities.

• Ludema, J. D., Mohr, B. J., Whitney, D., & Griffin T. J. (2003). The Appreciative Inquiry Summit: A Practioner’s Guide for Leading Large-group Change. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

• Markova, D. (2005). The SMART Parenting Revolution: A Powerful New Approach to Unleashing Your Child's Potential.  Ballantine Books.

• McDermott, D. (2007). Developing Caring Relationships, Parents, Children, Schools and Communities. SAGE.

• Newman, P., & Jennings, I. (2008). Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices. Island Press.

• Paddock, S. S. (2003). Appreciative Inquiry in the Catholic Church. Thin Book Publishing

• PE2020 Project Public Innovations Catalogue

• Walker, P. (2000). Imagine. In Flower, C., Mincher, P., & Rimkus, S. (Eds.) PLA Notes 38: Participatory Processes in the North (pp. 77-80). IIED