Sugar House Chatauqua?

In my comment to Kathleen's post I wondered a bit about how to make a community plan while at the same time creating a creative and collaborative process. One way to do that is to host events that both serve to educate the public about the community and the plan, while at the same time revising or creating anew the plan. Such events would both give strength to the core idea of creating a community plan and allow community members to create their own plans, linked tightly or loosely to the first plan.

In other words, I'm imagining something like a real-world wiki. The closest historical example is the chatauqua movement that educated and entertained millions of Americans between the 1890s and 1930s. The trick today wouldn't be to create a one-time event that drew hundreds of visitors to Sugar House--Brolly Arts has shown that it can do that with the Legend of Hidden Hollow, as have Lynne, Sheri, and the KOPE Kids. The trick would be to do it in a way that provoked face-to-face and online interaction between the events. How do we do that? How do we build the spirit of chatauqua (or local, democratic community-making) into the practices of local organizations, the classrooms of local schools, and the lives of local residents?