Structurally remaking our Democracy -> towards Deep Democracy

  • What kind of decision architectures and organisations would help us to navigate a world that has always consisted of complex systems, composed of many components interacting with each other and creating emergent properties and behaviors? Accepting that we live in a complex emergent world makes uncertainty and learning the hallmark of our futures as opposed to predictability and control.
  • Therefore, it is likely that learning institutions are better able to cope with an era of persistent emergencies and remain relevant. They could establish a new way of acting that is transformative and supports a socio-ecological transformation of all public systems.
  • Institutions as "integrated systems of rules that structure social interactions" could become learning institutions if they would systematically facilitate a learning cycle between the consequences of social interactions and the adaptation of the rules that structure them.
  • We, the public, have to demand a public management shift - from military control models to organizational learning approaches.
  • The transformation of democracy itself will become a question of global peace and collective survival. It is not just a matter of overcoming challenges, crises but also of being able to organize our democratic processes (politics), institutions (polity) and guidelines (policies) in a co-creative manner.