Since its inception, slowLab has enabled public dialogues to advance understandings of Slow design while promoting the important role of communication and collaboration in Slow design methodology.

The Slow dialogues began as forums in which intimate groups of creative thinkers gathered to collectively explore the concept of Sslow' and its potential applications in practice. Those first dialogues were recorded and the transcripts of some gathering published to the slowLab web site to be read through by the community at large and serve as a resource for participating members of our network.

Since then, the Slow dialogues have evolved to include presentations of recent and proposed slow design projects, which are then open for discussion, critique and co-designing by interested members of the public in attendance. With the publication of a 'Slow dialogue toolkit' in Spring 2013, the Slow dialogues will expand to be hosted by a broader spectrum of our network and interested members of the general public.

(Just for fun, there is a link to excerpts from our very first dialogues held between April and December 2003).

view and comment on recent Slow Dialogues >

Read excerpts from some of the first dialogues >

Would you like to host a Slow Dialogue in your locality? Email us to pre-order a Slow dialogue toolkit >