Author Peter Kageyama: How to Engage the Community Post-COVID
February 24, 2021 — Is It Possible to Engage Our Community after the Pandemic?
On Thursday, March 11, at 11 a.m., join an interactive talk to answer that question with author Peter Kageyama via Zoom. Visit thelibrary.org/programs to register. A link to the virtual event will be shared with registered participants. His topic: “The Emotional Infrastructure of Places: Engaging Our Community following the Pandemic.”
Peter Kageyama is the author of the award-winning “For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places.” His follow-up was “Love Where You Live: Creating Emotionally Engaging Places,” and “The Emotional Infrastructure of Places.”
He will join City of Springfield’s Director of Quality of Place Tim Rosenbury and Director of Public Information & Civic Engagement Cora Scott for an interactive presentation exploring how we create emotional attachments and connections to our places and each other.
Infrastructure is a hot topic for communities all over the world, and Springfield has several large-scale, exciting projects underway despite the pandemic.
The pandemic has also shaped public preferences for how we emerge as a community excited to reconvene and reclaim our shared community spaces and events. Ranging from roads and bridges to trails and public spaces and walkable places – infrastructure consists of foundational elements for a shared and common purpose.
This program is sponsored by the Springfield-Greene County Library District, the City of Springfield, and the United Way of the Ozarks.