# The Craft of Change: Why best practice so often fails in government

*Notebook · In editing · Public Mesh Editions · Domenico Di Siena*

What actually travels from one place to another when templates fail. Six pieces on the craft of civic change: communities that look good but don’t hold, failures only told once they have become success, and the images we carry into every participation room.

## Details

- **Collection:** Civic Design
- **Format:** Notebook · PDF and small print run
- **Contents:** 6 pieces
- **Origin:** Series published in Public Mesh Journal
- **Publisher:** Public Mesh Editions, Valencia

## Contents

1. [The Craft of Change](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/the-craft-of-change-why-best-practice)
2. [Communities That Look Good but Don’t Hold](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/communities-that-look-good-but-dont)
3. [Why Civic Design Must Stop Celebrating Failure After It’s Over](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/why-civic-design-must-stop-celebrating)
4. [The Symbolic City and the Lived City](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/the-symbolic-city-and-the-lived-city)
5. [The Art of Survivance](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/the-art-of-survivance)
6. [Designing the Civic Mesh: Six Shifts for Public Life](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/designing-the-civic-mesh-six-shifts)

## Links

- [Read the series in the Journal](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/the-craft-of-change-why-best-practice)

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Domenico Di Siena: Domenico Di Siena is a civic designer, architect and researcher. For more than twenty years he has worked with cities, European programmes and institutions on participation, public innovation and civic infrastructure.

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