This event brings the public into the planning process for the rebuilding of downtown New York. Citizens become active participants in a process that begins by discussing an issue with others at their table. It ends when a "sense of a meeting" - evolving as a single or multiple concepts - is brought to the group as a whole through interactive technologies.

This first meeting is made up of individuals and groups who were directly impacted by the events of September 11th: victim families, firefighters, those unemployed because of the terrorist attack, those still working in the downtown area, and a limited number from the groups who have joined together to make these events possible.