{"id":42,"date":"2026-06-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/engagement-expectations-and-the-reality-of-public-process\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T14:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:51:14","slug":"engagement-expectations-and-the-reality-of-public-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/engagement-expectations-and-the-reality-of-public-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Engagement, Expectations, and the Reality of Public Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At SYMP26, Molly Steeves, Associate at DIALOG, and Josh White, General Manager of Planning, Urban Design and Sustainability at the City of Vancouver, came together for a fireside on the tensions at the heart of public engagement: consultation versus participation, community versus expertise, individual versus collective.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"video wrapper reveal-fx reveal-fx--translate-up\">\n    <div class=\"video-frame\">\n        <iframe\n            src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1205677776\"\n            title=\"Video player\"\n            loading=\"lazy\"\n            allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"\n            allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Their conversation centred on a single, grounding idea \u2014 that trust is cultural infrastructure, built slowly through transparency and accountability. Molly and Josh unpacked how to approach engagement in an increasingly complex world, focusing on building trust and a sense of ownership, and bringing lived experience and technical knowledge together in a constructive way.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molly Steeves and Josh White explored the tensions in public engagement \u2014 consultation vs. participation, community vs. expertise \u2014 arguing that trust is cultural infrastructure built through transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ueastories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.projectsota.com\/fox6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}