City Of Boulder

Throughout fall 2018, Co-Director Sprain and Research Fellow Reinig have worked with City of Boulder staff and a small group of community members to develop a vision for productive civic discourse in Boulder. Phase II of Building Bridges has seen the community group working with insights and materials generated through...

Growing expressions of distrust of Boulder’s public process led the city of Boulder to appoint a 14-member community working group to identify ways to improve public process. As part of their final recommendations in Summer 2017, the Public Participation Working Group (PPWG) recommended the co-creation of guidelines for civil and constructive conduct in meetings, dialogue, and decision-making processes. As part of Boulder’s efforts to improve public engagement practices and activate these recommendations,, Boulder’s staff first conceived Building Bridges as a large public design workshop held in Fall 2017.

Director Phaedra C. Pezzullo presented at and participated in an all-day workshop with community members, City of Boulder employees and council member, and Boulder County employees about the work of making a Just Transition possible here and beyond.