by Graham Smith and Canning Malkin | Sep 23, 2024 | Big ideas
We need to talk about climate (assemblies): Graham Smith in conversation with Canning Malkin In his latest book, We Need To Talk About Climate: How Citizens’ Assemblies Can Help Us Solve The Climate Crisis, Graham Smith aims to systematise the latest collective...
by Luiza Jardim and Maria Lucien | Jun 4, 2024 | Big ideas
Inclusive by default: strategies for more inclusive participation In theory, participatory processes offer a meaningful route for everyday people to have more power over decisions that affect their lives. In practice, participation faces challenges in ensuring that...
by Nardine Alnemr, Rob Weymouth and Brian Sullivan | May 12, 2024 | Big ideas
Democracy and Artificial Intelligence: current practices and visions into the future What potential does artificial intelligence have for supporting deliberative democracy? In the second of this two-part series, Nardine Alnemr and Rob Weymouth are joined by software...
by Martina Francesca, Sara Bigi, Tatsuyoshi Saijo, Yves Mathieu and Judith Ferrando | Apr 3, 2024 | Big ideas
Introducing the Unheard: from exploitation and oppression to interconnection and regeneration? The topics discussed during deliberative processes often impact the lives of people and nonhuman entities who are not present, and whose voices remain unheard. In the field...
by Felipe Rey | Nov 17, 2023 | Big ideas
Read in Spanish Representation Reset Felipe Rey reflects on his inspiration and motivations for writing his new book, The Representative System, and its implications for the field of democratic innovations. Illustration by Andi Lanuza This journey began almost 10...
by Brett Hennig, Cristina Lafont, Samuel Bagg and Sonia Bussu | Feb 21, 2023 | Big ideas
Debating Sortition What are the appropriate uses of sortition in contemporary democracies? To what extent can these practices advance democratic transformation? Here are four big ideas. Image by Annika Hernandez Debating Sortition kicked off the ‘Democratizing...
