PAR-CITY researcher Agnieszka Kampka presented her paper, The Civic Future of the City: Rhetorical Practices in Online Public Consultations, at the 10th Nordic Conference for Rhetorical Research (NKRF10), “Rhetoric and Democracy Revisited”, held at the University of Oslo from 10–12 June 2026.
The paper asks a timely and challenging question: how do we debate issues we know little about with people we do not trust? Drawing on an analysis of public consultations on Warsaw’s General Plan and Development Strategy, Kampka explored how rhetorical practices shape participation in online consultation processes.
The research, conducted as part of the PAR-CITY project, was discussed as an example of rhetorical citizenship in practice, highlighting the role of public communication, trust and argumentation in shaping the civic future of the city.
