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How can virtual and augmented reality technologies help participants experience the perspectives of animals or future generations?

Related Goals

Legitimately include important absent perspectives into deliberative processes.

Related Capabilities

Include voiceless perspectives

Representativeness

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).

Related Existing Resources

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

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...

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