Dear Ezio,
Thanks for your reply. There’s not much for me to add, either to your note or to my previous thoughts. It’s a good initiative. I tend to agree with you, and I tend to agree with Luke’s argument for why democracy is important. Of course, I tend very much to agree with Elinor Ostrom — and for the enabling mechanisms that she suggests.
The one thing I will add is to quote your open letter on the four aspects of how democracy and design converge:
“(1) design of democracy, improving democratic processes and the institutions on which democracy is built;
“(2) design for democracy, involving issues of access and transparency, allowing more people, especially using technology, to participate in the democratic process;
“(3) design in democracy, including projects that help to bring about conditions of equality and justice;
“(4) design as democracy, whereby the equitable and inclusive principles of participatory design set a stage on which diverse actors can come together to share constitutive power in shaping the present and future world we live in.”
Each of these issues are rich. All are important. While it is possible to write a book about each of these themes, I don’t yet have my 500 words.
Warm wishes,
Ken
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