Reframing Topeka: Introduction to the 2021 Local Deliberative Conversations Project
Channel: TopekaLibrary
Date: 06/04/2021

As part of continuing work that Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library is doing with the Kettering Foundation, we are working with the community around how we face our difficult issues. This is something groups are already talking about, so we’re trying to look at things in a new way, using a deliberative framework to examine different approaches, tradeoffs and unintended consequences. Read more about our work with Deliberative Conversations at https://tscpl.org/conversations .

We started doing this project before the pandemic, but we have pivoted in 2021, attempting to keep the energy and expansiveness of working together across silos in the pandemic, and introducing innovation in finding common ground. The library can help people work better together, and can convene conversations on challenging topics that are so broad that no one else is responsible for them. In this project, we are deliberating the local issue: Topeka: How should we take action to improve quality of life in our community?    

We are reaching out to many people to deliberate this issue. If you don't see your perspective represented in this work, please consider contributing your experience and knowledge. Please invite more people and more voices into this work to help us include more perspectives in our community.  

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