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Include voiceless perspectives
Ability to fairly include the perspectives of those that are not represented in the process, including people who are not present (future generations, young people or other representation constraints), and non-human entities (natural phenomena or animals).
How this is performed now...
- Process organizers Process organizers can ask participants to critically reflect on the hypothetical views of those not present. There are some exercises that prompt participants to consider or even role-play views that are not present in the room (Deliberative Democracy Digest).
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Experimental Practice
Animals in the Room
A project exploring how to include non-human perspectives (animals and nature) in democratic governance and deliberation. Part of the growing "more-than-human governance" movement examining how governance can draw on more-than-human intelligences and consider our relationship with the living worl...
Experimental Practice
More-than-human governance experiments in Europe
A DemocracyNext research project exploring how governance and policy design can draw on more-than-human intelligences, examining emerging experiments in Europe around rights-based, representation-focused, and artistic approaches. The project identified key concepts like entanglement, relationalit...
Experimental Practice
Radicle Civics — Building Proofs of Possibilities for a Civic Economy and Society
An experimental project by Dark Matter Labs exploring the use of large language models (LLMs) to represent non-human entities like rivers in democratic deliberation. Part of their "Radicle Civics" initiative, it experiments with AI as a medium for giving voice to natural systems in governance pro...
Research
Institutions for Future Generations
Extensive work in political theory and political philosophy exploring the opportunities and challenges of representing future generations and non-human animals in democratic processes
Experimental Practice
How can AI and Civic Tech Build Consensus for Climate Policy and Include the Voices of Future Generations?
A TICTeC 2025 workshop by MIT GOV/LAB and Stanford HAI exploring how AI and civic tech can build consensus for climate policy while including future generations' voices using the deliberation.io platform. The platform employs AI chatbots following a Socratic dialogue model to help users reflect o...
Product
deliberation.io
A citizen engagement platform facilitating large-scale democratic discussions through AI-powered facilitation identifying common ground, inclusive participation mechanisms, and transparent verifiable methodologies. Used by Washington DC for AI Public Listening Sessions in collaboration with MIT G...
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