An essay about fragmentation, power, and the quiet design failures reshaping democracy.
This piece isn’t about why people are ‘turning authoritarian.’ It’s about what happens when the spaces that teach democratic life disappear and what we must build instead.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/where-do-we-gather-the-geography?r=6l8ed8
#CivicIntelligence #Democracy
#PublicSpace #Belonging
#Authoritarianism
#DemocraticResilience #SystemsThinking
#Digital #AIGovernance
#Information
Much of the debate on strategic autonomy focuses on capabilities and positioning. This piece starts from a different question: what kinds of societies are able to hold power without fragmenting?
The essay explores strategic autonomy as a developmental threshold and asks what Europe, and perhaps other regions too, still need to build.
#StrategicAutonomy #EuropeanUnion #Democracy #CivicIntelligence #SystemsThinking #globalgovernance #democraticresilience #politics
Calm is not always a sign that things are working.
Often, it’s a sign that the costs have been moved: into the future, into the margins, into lives we don’t see.
This essay explores borrowed calm: how modern systems maintain stability by postponing consequences, and why misreading that calm is becoming one of our most expensive mistakes.
#SystemsThinking #CivicIntelligence #Leadership #ClimateJustice #GlobalInequality
At the Youth4Peace conference in Lisbon, inclusion began in the kitchen.
🍲 We Cheffes — fifteen women from across continents — turned catering into a living manifesto of care, courage, and design.
Their story isn’t about food alone. It’s about rebuilding dignity, community, and belonging — one meal at a time.
Read the full story →
🔗 https://redefine.pt/2025/10/we-cheffes-empowerment-through-the-taste-of-home/
#Youth4Peace #SocialInnovation #CivicIntelligence #Intersectionality #WomensEmpowerment #Lisbon
Some classrooms teach facts. Others teach citizenship.
In Portugal, Ginásio do Empreendedor is reimagining education as civic rehearsal — where failure is data, teamwork is progress, and creativity is a democratic act.
🟣 Read → https://redefine.pt/2025/10/08/the-gym-for-future-citizens-ginasio-do-empreendedor/
#education #Youth4Peace #CivicIntelligence #SocialInnovation #democracy #Europe
Democracy isn’t inherited — it’s rehearsed.
At Casa do Impacto in Lisbon, Youth4Peace showed what civic imagination looks like in practice: education, innovation, and empathy in motion.
🔗https://redefine.pt/2025/10/06/rehearsing-democracy-youth4peace-lisbon/
#Youth4Peace #RehearsingDemocracy #CivicIntelligence #SocialInnovation #democracy #Lisbon #erasmusplus #YouthLeadership #CivicTech #EdTech #EuropeanUnion #CivicEngagement
Empower us with knowledge to challenge demagoguery and inspire democratic values, fostering resilience against authoritarian oligarchies. #KnowledgeDefends #SmartNationStrongNation #CivicIntelligence #NOLIGARCHY.US
The first international symposium on educating for collective intelligence. This Thursday!! https://cic.uts.edu.au/events/collective-intelligence-edu-2024/
#education #collectiveintelligence #civicintelligence
Are we bypassing the Anthropocene and going straight into the Cybercene?? My new article has been published: Tools of Our Tools? Exploring the Cybercene Conjecture
Are we seeing the dawning of a new epoch?
The Cybercene Epoch draws nearer as the computing complex creates more and more people in its own image, “tools of their tools,” as Thoreau had forewarned in 1854.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3654437 @FrankPasquale @pluralistic @sigchi @sigcas #socialresponsibility #anthropocene #CivicIntelligence
You may have seen this — a fascinating and enlightening study on ancestral links between slave-owners and elected officials. Even Obama!! What do we do with it... Memory and Responsibility. #civicIntelligence #History https://www.publicsphereproject.org/content/memory-and-responsibility https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/
Inspiring (and useful) story of #CivicIntelligence in #Seattle Girl Scout Troop in homeless shelter #resilience https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/washingtons-first-homeless-shelter-based-girl-scout-troop-is-back-in-business
Looks like Exxon-Mobil was very knowledgeable about climate change. Years and years ago. High prescience score, Lowest of the Low ethics score. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063 #Agnotology #civicintelligence #civicignorance
@schock As well as other software that supports social change / civic actions that is integrated into the fediverse. #CivicIntelligence #communityNetworks #PatternLanguage
@vortex_egg @hrheingold I figured. It's too late now, but I wonder if it isn't an opportunity lost not to have some kind of "#CreativeCommons Declaration for Mastodon Fair Use", not in terms of content copyright but infrastructure civic use? Like CC it can't be enforced, but at least it would build moral pressure not to assist the Dark Fediverse with even more tools to wreak their havoc... @dougschuler, what do you think from a #CivicIntelligence perspective?
#BIGTECH for #CLIMATECRISIS Advocating inaction: a historical analysis of the Global Climate Coalition https://cssn.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GCC-Paper.pdf #agnotology #civicIntelligence
@RachelFriend Good luck Rachel!! Hoping the world leaders will be thinking of #civicIntelligence, how to get people *more* engaged with democracy — not less!
