Since its inception, slowLab has enabled public dialogues as a means of advancing understanding of slow design and 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 'slow' and its potential applications in practice. Those first dialogues were recorded and the transcripts of each 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. And in Fall 2008, the program of Slow Dialogues will expand to be hosted by trusted members of our ineternational network.

Follow the link below to our Slow Dialogue blog, a recently-created web space to document and collect comments about the dialogues. (Just for fun, there is also a link to excerpts from our very first dialogues held between April and December 2003).

view and comment on recent Slow Dialogues >

excerpts from the first Dialogues are here >

Care to host a Slow Dialogue in your locality? Email us >