What happens to democracy when it meets a reality it wasn't designed to accommodate?
This episode is part of "On the Air: Redesigning Democracy," a three-part evening school we hosted live in our exhibition space at Halmtorvet 27 in the spring of 2026. Each evening brought together philosophers, political theorists, architects, community workers, and curators around one shared question: what happens to democracy when it meets a reality it wasn't designed to accommodate?
Across the three conversations, that question is asked from three different angles — through future generations, other species, and the participation for refugees.
On this first episode of On the Air: Redesigning Democracy, we explore how designing for future generations can change democracy itself.
On the podcast you will meet: → Klara Sørensen, who works with citizens' assemblies at We Do Democracy and with the question of how a political "we" is formed. → Nicklas Larsen, Director at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, working with intergenerational fairness and how future consequences are accounted for in present decision-making. → Pernille Maria Bärnheim, Deputy Director of CAFx, whose work moves between education, research, and curation, with a focus on how the built environment conditions collective life.
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