Civic Architecture, Democracy as a Design Problem

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The homepage frames democratic capacity as an institutional outcome rather than a matter of motivation, then supplies a vocabulary for examining how that outcome is produced. Its four elements include public work, collective authorship, narrative authority, and relational power; the site also distinguishes decisions that are merely public from those that bind a wider common life across time. The framework is attributed to Robert M. Ceresa and is linked to The Civic Table Design Studio, writing, and Google Scholar.