{"id":1833,"date":"2015-09-23T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T03:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theworldcafe.com\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2019-11-26T02:40:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T10:40:59","slug":"burgerrat-on-refugees-in-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/burgerrat-on-refugees-in-austria\/","title":{"rendered":"B\u00fcrgerrat &#8211; Civic Councils on Refugees in Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 25 years, the State of Vorarlberg has been pioneering different methods of public participation. Since 2008, they have been working intensively with Jim Rough&#8217;s process, originally named Wisdom Council or Creative Insight Council, which in their context they have named B\u00fcrgerrat or &#8220;Civic Council&#8221;. Austria is currently among the three most preferred destinations in Europe for refugees, next to Germany and Sweden. To deal with this situation adequately, the government of Vorarlberg organized a Civic Council to address the question &#8220;How do we deal with the rise of refugees well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This short video by Martin Rausch documents the work they did in June 2015 to help create a &#8220;Culture of Collaboration&#8221;, using World Cafe for the Citizen Caf\u00e9s at the heart of the B\u00fcrgerrat. Their work is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/135618811?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/135618811\">The Civic Council (&#8220;B\u00fcrgerrat&#8221;) in Austria on: &#8220;How do we deal best with the influx of refugees&#8221; &#8211; June 2015<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user19563317\">Martin Rausch<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 25 years, the State of Vorarlberg has been pioneering different methods of public participation. Since 2008, they have been working intensively with Jim Rough&#8217;s process, originally named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,923,30,690,714],"tags":[778,782,789,781,780,763,779],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-europe-stories-reports","category-social-change","category-stories-reports","category-video","tag-austria","tag-burgerrat","tag-buro-fur-zukunftsfragen-vorarlberg","tag-dynamic-facilitation","tag-jim-rough","tag-refugees","tag-state-of-vorarlberg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6sDis-tz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}