The current situation

The need for this site and many others like it arises from the way we have become accustomed to imagining culture and ourselves. Citizens have come to lack both the expectation of dialogue and tools to deliberate. Practices have arisen to fill the gap but there is no recognizable field within which individual approaches may find widespread support.

The solution

Let's campaign for a name that is copyleft, not trade marked, accessible beyond private agendas, and makes clear that the artful learning making deep democracy possible is as basic as education in the Liberal Arts. To reading writing and arithmetic let's add relationship and ask colleagues to refer to this kind of learning as the "process arts".

The current situation

Current online tools, techniques and behaviors highlight our differences of opinion much more effectively than they help us discover common ground and forge agreements that allow us to move forward.

The solution

Let's consider a new tool called CivicEvolution that provides a process and structure through which a team can develop a proposal to solve a problem. Can this tool help and how can it be improved.