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Reimagining a Museum: Designing new perspectives for cultural institutions in the 21st century
A summer school that brought together 40 participants from all over the world to rethink cultural institutions in the 21st century.
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Earthrise ’25: Where to, from here?
The invitation from the Circolo del Design to curate the 2025 edition of Earthrise was an opportunity to present how design and democracy connect, focusing particularly on examples from contemporary design.
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De40 – a Citizen’s Panel in Gent
The Design Museum Gent organized a citizen’s panel – De40, or “The 40” –to deliberate on how to become a place where everyone is welcome.
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All In! Redesigning Democracy
Every aspect of Western democracy has been designed, therefore it can be designed differently.
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The Democracy Gym
For the exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle we came up with the idea of a democracy gym, based on the principle of the 10 Democratic Muscles by Danish activists We Do Democracy.
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Visualizing the Gesellschaftsforum: a collaboration with Design Academy Eindhoven
Two cities, two museums, two citizens’ assemblies, and a total of 64 citizens selected by lot — all of it documented in a set of fabulous infographics by young graduates of the Design Academy Eindhoven.
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Fragments of Democracy: Conversation pieces on the myths of democracy
A series of “data sculptures” by Studio Folder commissioned for the exhibition All In! Redesigning Democracy.
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Symposium Design & Democracy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg
A three-day symposium analyzed the overlaps of design and democracy through the lenses of horizontality, polyphony and transformation.
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Gesellschaftsforum: two cultural citizens’ assemblies in Bonn and Dresden
In the run-up to the exhibition All In! Redesigning Democracy we tried something radically new: two citizens’ assemblies in two cultural institutions, with all participants selected by lot.
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Design and Democracy – A Workshop at the MA Curating Contemporary Design, Kingston University
What is the best way of collectively and publicly redefining the role of a museum in the 21st century?
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Design Campus: Design and Democracy
The inaugural summer school of the Design Campus investigated the many connections between design and democracy.
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OECD Innovative Citizen Participation Network
The use of deliberative processes for public decision making is a key part of OECD’s work on open government. Paramount in these explorations is the OECD’s international Innovative Citizen Participation Network, which we have joined as members at the time of its foundation in 2019.
