Mattering Democratic Commons — On Making Relational Politics with Spatial Practice
In the Roundtable each participant presents 10 minutes on a specific project and then we proceed to have a conversation about participant work and the work produced in the workshop.
On Thursday April 16th, 18:30—20:30, you are invited to a roundtable conversation about democratic innovations, political mobilizations within and beyond the state and the role of spatial practice in giving meaning to new democratic imaginaries.
The evening will begin with light servings and drinks before we inhabit the green sandbox for six 10-minute presentations by Torange Khonsari (Public Works), Ingrid Rahbek & Morten Roslev (Ungdommens Demokratihus), Annika Agger (RUC), Louisa Mathies & Johan Galster (We Do Democracy), Rasmus Romme Brick (Rumgehør), and Lars Tønder (SDU).
Presentations draw on concrete examples of work and academic research that engages critically and creatively with the common distinction between invited and invented spaces for participation and introduces topics such as creative partnerships between public authorities and commoning-communities, more-than-human agencies, the importance of spaces for democratic organising with young people, and how co-creation practices and prefigurative politics relates to citizens’ assemblies and other invited spaces.
After the round of presentations we will take a 15 minute break for light servings and drinks followed by a 30 minute panel discussion where we will ask questions such as: How is commoning and democracy already always entangled? How might we attend to the spatial and material practices of democratic deliberations? And what kinds of meanings can be produced by a shift from discursive to material and spatial practices? The panel discussion will be moderated by Gustav Nielsen. James MacDonald-Nelson from DemocracyNext will be joining as a respondent for the panel discussion.
Join us for an evening exploring democracy’s plural entanglements!
This event is organized in collaboration between Cultures of Assembly and the Community Design Research Lab (CDRL).
Photo: Allotment gardens in Esch-sur-Alzette clashing with green infrastructure improvements by the municipality. Photo by Gustav Nielsen.
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