ABSTRACT

This chapter describes a descriptive account of development process, which has involved colleagues from various disciplines and now includes collaboration with and feedback from Ward One Organization members. It presents an evidence to suggest that this process has indeed produced habit-change that is beginning to foster cultural renewal in Columbia, South Carolina. One of the lessons they learned, in the regard, was that assuming responsibility for the completion of a task to which someone else had committed him/herself is an unfortunate—and hopefully infrequent—aspect of collaboration. In moments of impressive intellectual generosity, they move merely being peers; they are colleagues, collaborators, co-conspirators: they evolve into what in Charles Sanders Peircean terms is a "community of interpreters". The fate of the Coliseum remains unclear; but this account is significant because it shows how capacious the "community of interpreters". That there is room for diverse opinions, for instances of disagreement, makes possible more complicated discussions with a variety of potentially interested parties.