Citizens' Assemblies

The use of creative elements in political forums develops interaction and empathy, leading to greater awareness supportive of political change.

In a world grappling with the climate crisis, social unrest, and polarisation undermining democracy, an oasis of ideas for a better future has bloomed. It happened in Milan during the Spring School on Climate Citizens’ Assemblies. The two-day event brought to the same room the instigators of the next wave of participatory democracy that looms on the horizon. Uncover their stories, insights, and dreams for a greener tomorrow for Europe.

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Hannah Arendt work holds lessons on reinvigorating democracy in a time of corroded trust in political institutions, an emboldened far right, and ecological breakdown.

Citizens’ assemblies will not be a silver bullet for the climate crisis.

For proponents of deliberative democracy, today’s representative regimes offer nothing more than illusion.

An interview on the critical infrastructure on which our democracies are built and its transformation.

As the movement that politicised the relationship between society and nature in the West, green politics is at the forefront of not just democracy’s defence, but its reinvention.