Co-laboratories of Democracy: Best Choices for Designing Sustainable Futures
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Abstract
This chapter frames one of the greatest challenges of our time: the invention of methods and technologies that harness the collective intelligence and wis- dom of thousands of stakeholders working together on a complex societal systemic problem. The worldwide failures of democracy to respond to global challenges, especially in the domain of governance, call for such massive but still authentic and democratic participatory systems. The authors assert that the need to reinvent democracy is urgent and that it can be done using co-laboratories of democracy. It concludes with a presentation of key fi ndings of co-laboratories that aim to reinvent democracy using structured dialogic design methodology applied in small group settings and an introduction into the challenges of scaling up this process to engage thousands.
Citation
Laouris, Y., Dye, K. M., Michaelides, M., & Christakis, A. N. (2014). Co-laboratories of democracy: best choices for designing sustainable futures. Social Systems and Design, 167-183.
