Dear Eduardo,
While you addressed your post to the list, you quoted my reply in doing so. It is impossible to draw these conclusions from my answer to Ezio.
If you drew these inferences from my post, you might explain how it is that my reply to Ezio furthers “autocracy, fascisms, plutocracy, dictatorships, social-race-gender discriminations, imperialism, neo colonialism, racism, xenophobia, Hyper-inequality, and other anti democratic expressions of power.”
If you did not intend to suggest that this is my position, it would have been better not to write this as a reply to me.
I plan to be careful with my 500 words because I know how difficult these issues are.
Yours,
Ken
Eduardo Corte-Real wrote:
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Dear Colleagues,
I will stand up for Democracy and write my 500 words.
But first let me say a few things:
1. Please, do not pretend that you don’t know what Democracy is.
2. Please, do not pretend that you don’t know how design may help Democracy
3. Please, do not pretend that you don’t know how design is not helping Democracy.
If you are still deciding what democracy is,
If you have not a clear idea how Design is helping and enhancing autocracy, fascisms, plutocracy, dictatorships, social-race-gender discriminations, imperialism, neo colonialism, racism, xenophobia, Hyper-inequality, and other anti democratic expressions of power…
Resume back to your History studies and, then, come back to the discussion.
Warm regards,
E.
Eduardo Corte-Real
PhD Arch.
Associate Professor
Professor Associado com Agregação
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> No dia 21/05/2017, às 14:46, Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]> escreveu:
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> 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.
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> The one thing I will add is to quote your open letter on the four aspects of how democracy and design converge:
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> “(1) design of democracy, improving democratic processes and the institutions on which democracy is built;
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> “(2) design for democracy, involving issues of access and transparency, allowing more people, especially using technology, to participate in the democratic process;
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> “(3) design in democracy, including projects that help to bring about conditions of equality and justice;
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> “(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.”
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> 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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