What methods can support participants to understand better the perspectives of others (e.g., automated language simplification, visual summary)?

A MosaicLab overview card introducing six core critical thinking skills - clarity, accuracy, relevance, depth, breadth, and logic - with guiding questions for each, intended as a practical reference for deliberative processes.

Video resource for developing critical thinking skills.

Video resource on unconscious biases

A two-year initiative by DemocracyNext and MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication leveraging technology across three assembly phases: preparation (capturing diverse community voices and AI synthesis), during deliberation (supporting group bonding, enhancing learning, AI-powered sensemaking a...

Book documenting Augusto Boal’s experimental practice of “Legislative Theatre” where he, elected as a city legislator in Rio de Janeiro (1993-1996), used Forum Theatre techniques with community groups to develop policy proposals that citizens could directly transform into legislation.

Guidebook on graphic facilitation, teaching practitioners how to use real-time visual note-taking and drawing to map ideas and conversations during meetings and group processes.

A playbook for generating new ideas using games

A practical guide to generative design research by Elizabeth Sanders and Pieter Jan Stappers, teaching how to bring people directly into the design process to ensure their needs and aspirations are met. Structured in three parts covering foundational principles, real-world case studies, and actio...