by kultur.work | May 21, 2023 | Blog, News and Comment
The following is an extract from ‘Can Democracy safeguard the Future’—By Graham Smith, Polity Press, 2021. Participatory democracy would appear to be a counterintuitive approach to long-term governance. The short-sightedness of the public is widely viewed...
by kultur.work | Dec 13, 2022 | News and Comment
FDSD update: Quiet but busy… FDSD has been quiet during COVID, but not inactive. We have been rethinking how we can best contribute to the profound challenges facing democracies today. We are planning an event in 2023 to bring together the diverse and fragmented...
by kultur.work | Dec 12, 2022 | Blog, News and Comment
By Lukas Kübler, Giulia Molinengo, and Monika Arzberger Lukas Kübler, Giulia Molinengo and Monika Arzberger work at the Collaborative Governance Lab (Co:Lab), a public sector innovation lab of the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) in...
by kultur.work | Dec 12, 2022 | Blog, News and Comment
Jake Ainscough (pictured on the left) is a Senior Research Associate on the Climate Citizens project at Lancaster University. Climate Citizens is a research project exploring options for opening up climate policy making to the public. He interviewed Chris Stark...
by kultur.work | Nov 21, 2022 | News and Comment
The Brussels-Capital Region has announced that it will launch a permanent Citizens’ Assembly on Climate in 2023. Each year, the assembly will bring together 100 citizens to select topics, deliberate and come to recommendations. The citizens will also have a role in...
by Ariella Shalev | May 2, 2022
The future of everyday democracy is an interactive visualization of a future world, created by Finn Strivens, Eva Oosterlaken, and The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta). This vision was also inspired by the 19 winners of the Democracy...
by Ariella Shalev | Apr 28, 2022
By using creative ways to inform and engage people of all generations, The Democracy Box project aims to make sure that everyone understands UK democracy. The Democracy Box is a neutral and non-party political project based in Wales and stems from the understanding...
by Ariella Shalev | Apr 25, 2022
mySociety is a not-for-profit organisation promoting and developing online technologies to enhance civic participation. Established in 2003, mySociety operates across three practice areas: democracy, transparency, and community. Additionally, mySociety is aiming to...
by Ariella Shalev | Apr 13, 2022 | News and Comment
FDSD believes that democracy needs to adapt in order to meet the challenges of sustainable development, but equally that democracy itself is a better away of achieving sustainable goals than autocracy. However, our current democratic system has been facing challenges...
by Paul Bradley | Apr 12, 2022 | News and Comment
On the 10th of March 2022, the Scottish Leaders Forum (SLF) published a report on “Improving accountability and incentives to deliver the National Performance Framework (NPF) outcomes and live the values.” The forum includes over 300 senior leaders drawn from across...
by Ariella Shalev | Mar 29, 2022
Participatory Futures refer to a range of approaches for collectively imagining, exploring, and designing the landscape of possible futures. These approaches can provide a mechanism to incorporate long-term thinking within democratic systems and improve...
by Ariella Shalev | Mar 24, 2022 | News and Comment
On the 22nd March 2022 the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sous, announced that he is to champion intergenerational fairness. This announcement took part in an event hosted by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, who have been working with the School Of...
by Ariella Shalev | Mar 24, 2022 | News and Comment
On the 16th March 2022 the Greater Manchester Combined Authority launched Manchester’s first Community Wealth Hub. The development of this hub arose from a recommendation of the Greater Manchester Independent Inequalities Commission to “Create a Community Wealth Hub...
by Ariella Shalev | Mar 9, 2022 | News and Comment
The Future Trends Report Wales 2021 brings together possible future trends, drivers of change and potential risks across all sectors comprising the wellbeing of Wales. The report highlights intergenerational challenges to which Wales needs to respond and identifies...
by Ariella Shalev | Feb 22, 2022 | News and Comment
The focus on the crisis of party-political democracy has diverted attention away from the role of wider institutions of governance. In his book, Towards a New Civic Bureaucracy: Lessons from sustainable development for the crisis of governance, Matthew Quinn redresses...
by Ariella Shalev | Feb 21, 2022 | News and Comment
The article “Can Cities Use the Doughnut Model to Hack Liberal Democracy?” published by Olivia Lazard in Carnegie Europe in February 2022, explores some of the challenges of creating sustainable economic systems. The Doughnut Model developed by Kate...
by Ariella Shalev | Feb 17, 2022 | News and Comment
On the 4th February 2022 The Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill passed its final reading in the House of Lords. Lord Bird led the third and final reading of the Bill, which will now move to the House of Commons co-sponsored by Simon Fell MP, bringing it a...
by Ariella Shalev | Feb 17, 2022
#Todayfortomorrow is a campaign promoting The Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill. The campaign, founded by Lord Bird, is led by The Big Issue. The campaign aims to put long-term thinking at the centre of UK policymaking to protect the wellbeing of current and...
by Ariella Shalev | Jan 10, 2022
The Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies (KNOCA), launched in June 2021, is a new European network founded by the European Climate Foundation. The aim of KNOCA is to bring together academics, policy makers, activists and anyone interested to answer the question of...
by Ariella Shalev | Jan 10, 2022
In the past decade, Citizens’ Assemblies have risen in prominence. This evolving form of democracy uses representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy challenges by bringing the voice of citizens into political decision-making. Typically, Citizens’...
