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Archive · 17 conversations in Deliberative democracy
Interviews and field notes from people building new forms of democratic practice.
Stephen Boucher discusses Dreamocracy and the role of collective creativity in solving complex social problems. The conversation explores imagination, policy innovation, facilitation, and democratic problem-solving, focusing on how creative processes can help communities and institutions move beyond predictable debates toward new practical possibilities.
Oliver Klingefjord discusses the Meaning Alignment Institute and how collective wisdom can be surfaced in groups. The conversation explores alignment, deliberation, group intelligence, facilitation, and the design of processes that help communities identify deeper shared meaning rather than simply aggregating preferences or arguments.
Josef Lentsch discusses the Political Tech Summit and the potential of digitally assisted democracy. The conversation explores political innovation, parties, civic technology, institutional reform, and why democratic renewal requires both new tools and serious attention to the political organizations that connect citizens with power.
Lukas Salecker discusses deliberAIde and how generative AI can change deliberative democracy. The conversation explores AI-supported facilitation, argument structuring, synthesis, and the risks of using language models in public participation, focusing on how technology can assist deliberation without replacing human judgment.
Marcin Woźniak discusses Swarmcheck, argument mapping, and ways to make democratic discourse more rational. The conversation explores structured reasoning, collective sense-making, disagreement, and how digital tools can help groups clarify arguments, evaluate claims, and move public debate beyond noise and repetition.