Democracy
Agre reject the ultimate exit of Californian ambitions: the departure from bodily limits and social constraints.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
“Technology is not central; what is central are the choices that we make, each of us, in laying claim to the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in our own lives.”47
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
No institution can fully manifest human equality.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Civic hackers began to scrape government websites (usually with the suffix gov[dot]tw) and build alternative formats for data display and interaction for the same website, hosting them at g0v.tw. These “forked” versions of government websites often ended up being more popular, leading some government ministers, like Simon Chang to begin “merging” t... See more
While most discussion of bridging systems focuses on building consensus, another powerful role is to support the regeneration of diversity and productive conflict.
centuries-old institutions are increasingly inadequate for confronting ascendant authoritarians. Merely defending a certain sort of democracy is no way to help democracy as an ideal.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Agre was inverting it at MIT, calling for technology that invites people into developing skills through everyday politics.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
“Incubation” is a term often used to describe how innovative, risk-taking experiments are protected from regime norms and have the opportunity to take root and sometimes destabilize the Regime.
Historical Evolution of Wicked Problems – Transition Design Seminar CMU
democracy cannot survive in stasis. Alexis de Tocqueville’s canonical view of “democratic revolution,” a gradual progression toward ever more deeply democratic institutions, refuses to deify any particular institutional form.