Dear all,
few days ago Luke Feast has kindly presented and commented the Stand Up
for Democracy initiative. Now I would like to share with all of you some
information on it, to invite everybody who agrees with its spirit to
participate and to give indications on how to do it.
/Stand Up for Democracy/is an international initiative motivated by the
concern for the attack to democracy we are witnessing in several
countries in the world. Its first aim is to be a strong political
statement of the Design Community against these on-going highly
concerning trends. But, facing this crisis, /Stand Up for Democracy/
presents also a constructive side: it aims to create and multiply arenas
of conversations and experimentations on how to conceive, develop and
connect new possibilities for democracy.
This initiative has been started in March 2017 by an Open Letter sent by
Ezio Manzini and Victor Margolin to the Design Community. Now it is
autonomously moving on and spreading internationally.
Everyone who agrees with the Open Letter spirit can participate. The way
to do it is simple:
(1) Write a "personal statement", organize a "event" and upload them in
these two digital forms:
* for your personal statement: http://bit.ly/ddp-person
* for the related event:http://bit.ly/ddp-event <http://bit.ly/ddp-event>
(2) spread the Open Letter with your personal statement in your
networks, asking for other friends and colleagues to participate in the
initiative in the same way.
These statements and the information on the related events are collected
by DDP Democracy-Design Platform http://www.democracy-design.org. DDP is
a digital platform that works as the Stand Up for Democracy initiative
enabling system, giving the collected statements and events more
visibility, coordinating them with other projects and offering other
relevant information. DDP has been designed and is coordinated by three
of laboratories of the Politecnico di Milano (Design Policy Lab, Density
Design and DESIS Lab) and can be considered as their contribution to the
Stand Up for Democracy initiative. __
The Stand Up for Democracy initiative will last until October 2017 and
will have its milestones in some main design-related events that have
introduced or will introduce its topics in their programs.The first of
these main event already took place and has been at the EAD /Design for
Next Conference/, in Rome, where the organizers offered Stand Up for
Democracy a space for discussion in the opening day, the12^th April.
For the future, several other possibilities are under discussion. Two
important ones are already confirmed. They are: the Cumuls Conference,
in Kolding-Denmark, at the end of May, and the WDO-World Design
Organization Conference in Turin in October 2017.
All the best
Ezio (and Victor)
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