publications

  • The Case for Everyday Democracy: Turning Community Meetings into Engines for Collaboration

    Pomegranate Center Press, 2019

    Every day there are thousands of community meetings taking place throughout the country where we, the people, shape decisions for the future. This handbook offers guidance and inspiration for turning those meetings into productive, meaningful and even joyful events that strengthen our everyday democracy.

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  • Multiple Victories: Pomegranate Center's Art of Creating Community-Crafted Gathering Places

    Pomegranate Center Press, 2007

    Multiple Victories describes the methods and history of the Pomegranate Center, a non-profit organization that engages communities in the design and construction of unique gathering places and public art.

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  • Lightworks, Explorations in Art, Culture and Creativity

    Lorian Press, 1985 (Out of Print)

    It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

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  • Meandering Rivers and Square Tomatoes

    Lorian Press, 1988 (out of print)

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“At a time when so many of our larger governing institutions seem to be sinking into deepening dysfunction, Milenko Matanovic brings his decades of wise and creative experience to bear in an inspiring and highly readable handbook for the kind of democracy we all can practice.”

— Daniel Kemmis, former mayer of Missoula, Montana, speaker and minority leader of the Montana House of Representatives, and   author of Community and the Politics of Place