Skip to content
Theme : democracy
-
Podcast: The US elections
Last Monday, 20th October, we hosted a fantastic discussion on the upcoming US elections.
In this podcast you can hear Jonathan Freedland's talk, and you can download all the other audio from the event page.
from : petebradwell
27th October 2008
-
UN international day of democracy
With only a few minutes to spare before a new day is upon us we should mention that today, Monday 15th September, is the UN international day of democracy and, unless I’m much mistaken, this country decided against celebrating the day in style. However that's not to say others didn't. According to the Daily Times, Pakistan celebrated the occasion with zeal and fever, while all Canadians (especially those eligible to vote) were wished a happy International Day of Democracy by Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion.
from : charlieedwards
15th September 2008
-
Podcast: Social Change and Contemporary Art
In June, I spoke at an event launching Peckham Spaces' Peckham TV project. We've put together a podcase of the event, including excerpts of what I and the participating artists, The People Speak and Harold Offeh said. The podcast also includes some of the discussion with members of the audience.
from : samjones
4th September 2008
-
Better a bad ballot than no ballot?
Here at Demos we talk a lot about everyday democracy, the idea that people should have their say, not just in elections, but also in the fabric of their day to day lives.But what about everyday democracy for people who don't have any democracy at all?
from : faizalfarook
28th July 2008
-
Cultural and Artistic Practice and Democratic Participation
Last week, I spoke at the launch of Peckham Space, a project run by Camberwell College of Arts that looks at the role or participation in contemporary art.The speech covered a range of topics, in particular that of creative and artistitc production as a democratic space and its potential in relation to politics. You can read a text of the speech, here ... and a podcast of the event will follow soon.
from : samjones
27th June 2008
-
Contemporary Art and Social Change
A couple of months ago, I wrote a review of Provoking Democracy, a book about the role of artisitc production in a democracy.We'll be revisiting this, and other topics, when we speak at the launch of Peckham Space in a couple of weeks. It's a project run by Camberwell College of Arts and promotes participation in contemporary art as a means of social expression.It's at 7.30 pm at Camberwell School of Art ... you can find out more details here and here
from : samjones
9th June 2008
-
Engaging engagement
Engagement is an art, and much like any art it requires practice and exercise. At Demos, we’ve been working with a new Canada-based organisation called Mass LBP. It claims to be reinventing public consultation and its premise is a simple one: that much as anyone should expect to perform jury duty at some point in their life, so everyone should expect at one point or another to be called upon to deliberate and feed into public consultation. The idea is that such consultation, such engagement should be near-routine, it should be embedded in the fabric of everyday life and the basis for everyday democracy.
from : catherinefieschi
19th May 2008
-
Why politicians should always do their homework...
On Saturday I attended an excellent mayoral hustings, hosted by the LGBT organisation Stonewall. The three main candidates, along with Sian Berry of the Green Party and Left List candidate Lindsay German gave short presentations and fielded questions ranging from corruption, buses, the Pride festival, the rights of older LGBT people, extremism, Section 28, and providing better transport for disabled people in London....
from : nicolahughes
21st April 2008
-
EDI in Brussels
We just got back from the launch of the Everyday Democracy Index (EDI) at The Centre in Brussels. It was a chance to test our ideas with a group drawn from Member States, NGOs, index experts and journalists. Margot Wallstrom, the Vice President of the European Commission, in charge of institutional relations and communication, was there to respond.
from : kirstenbound
9th April 2008
-
Book Review: 'Provoking Democracy: Why we Need the Arts'
I've just written a review of Caroline Levine's book, Provoking Democracy: Why we Need the Arts. Overall, it encourages constructive discussion of the relationship between the arts and democracy that goes beyond territorialism and, even if it does leave questions unanswered, that is part of its value, flagging up areas to which policy-makers and cultural professionals must pay greater attention.
from : samjones
28th March 2008
