Co- creating Democracy: Roeland Japp in't Veld

Cocreating democracy By roeland jaap in ‘t veld May 24 2011 [email_address]

Content explanation Digression on concepts A fundamental transition: The landscape: today’s world The regime: towards knowledge democracy The niches: co-creation “ we live in times of profound change”

Knowledge democracy Triangle media, science, democracy Evolution of each cornerstone Tensions between bilateral relations Emerging tensions in the triangle

Representative Democracy Disciplinary Science Emerging Bottom-up Media Top- down Media Emerging Transdisciplinary Design/Science Emerging Participatory Democracy Tensions 1st order 2nd order 3th order &

Three domains: science, politics and media Powell’s presentation in the UN on mass destruction weapons in Irak: Media: neutral transfer of informaton? Evidence-based policy? Democracy at work? Nightmare: lies, manipulation,criminal acts

Democracy 1 Representative democracy weakening because of fragmentation of value patterns, loss of ideologies (but also because of the hype dominance caused by the interaction between politics and the corporate media)

Democracy 2 Individual treated by public bodies as institutional role player: Voter Client Citizen as a creative contributor neglected

Democracy 3 More participatory democracy necessary to overcome the weakness of representative democracy Participation based upon territory, function, interests, talent Participation in many degrees: advise, cocreation, autarchy (citizen initiatives) Burning questions as to the relations between participatory and representative democracy

Science and society Humboldtian ideal of cloister science: relates to basic research Senseful accumulation of knowledge then is the only objective Much production of knowledge however should be related to the world

From a Democratic Perspective 1 Knowledge production, dissemination and use have to meet certain conditions that are based on democratic values Legitimacy Pluralism Independence Credibility

From a Democratic Perspective 2 Demands on decisionmaking: Relevance Participation Accessability Accountability These conditions can cause tensions, because people tend to regard knowledge as a power tool

Action-perspective production From left to right: amalgamation of relevance Cooperation between stakeholders necessary

fragmented holistic detailled immune certain Not related to real activities raw vulnerable uncertain Related to real decisions Normal science Future-orien ted research Future-Trans disciplinary research

Logic of research Basic, normal: curiosity, meaningful accumulation of knowledge, no external interests relevant Problem- oriented: meeting with problem owners, at least interdisciplinary character of research

Today’s political agenda’s Wicked problems dominate No consensus on values, no consensus on knowledge Extreme complexity and uncertainty Authority fails systematically

Wicked problems Values Knowledge consensus dissensus consensus technical Classical, political dissensus Scientific discourse WICKED

Transdisciplinarity =cocreation Trajectory from problem to perspective for action Criterion for success is social robustness, consent, plausibility, not truth or validity Not only interdisciplinary, but always interaction between knowledge producers and policymakers

Media 1 Classical media are enterprises with power: Castells points at switching power Structural mutual dependencies between politicians and classical media Classical media evolve in global business networks

Media 2 Social media: mass self communication No ownership visible Inclusion and exclusion are vague Consumer is producer =prosumer No editors, so no selection

Media 3 The presence of social media liberates the politician from the classical media in principle Communities exist in social media

Media 4 Society is richer than ever on social media: Masses Crowds Publics Communities Individuals

Knowledge Democracy: Emerging Concept Analogy with Knowledge Economy Scientific, Persuasive and Programmatic Meaning Based on Perceived Tensions and Problems Normative in scope, not in substance

Values Substantial vs relational Relational values like equality a.o. relate to collective good and bad decision making procedures Relational values determine the opportunities for cocreation

Institutions Realise values in society, produce meaning Are solidified and mortal Democracy,networks,markets are institutions Networks are based on empathy, because of complementarity of actors (nodes)

Games Zero sum vs positive sum games Political power games are zero-sum games Zero sum games are obsolete Contracts and networks are positive sum games

Tensions Participatory democracy, social media and transdisciplinarity demand new modes of governance in order to overcome the immense complexity

Cocreation Beyond coöperaton because the belief in processes as creative events prohibits a power orientation The result of the process is richer than the contribution of any partner Each individual will is moderated by the enriched self-interest or the moderate altruism of the partners

Co-creation and politics Politics will develop a hostile attitude towards co-creation because it devastates the core surplus value as to content of the politician The remaining role for politics is process architect (meta governor)

Co-creation and knowledge democracy Co-creation will be the core characteristic of the marriage between transdisciplinarity and participative democracy Cocreation is hope

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