by kultur.work | Apr 7, 2023
FDSD submitted a response to Sarah Boyack MSP on the proposed Wellbeing and Sustainable Development (Scotland) Bill on 24 March 2023. We highlighted the importance of adopting a long-term perspective in policymaking to ensure the wellbeing of current and future...
by kultur.work | Apr 3, 2023
FDSD made a collective submission to the Labour Policy Forum on 17 March 2023 together with Involve, Demos, the Sortition Foundation, IsWe and Shared Future. In it we argued that since our current democracy is failing to tackle the big challenges of our time, we need...
by kultur.work | Dec 13, 2022 | News and Comment
FDSD update: Quiet but busy… FDSD has been quiet during COVID, but not inactive. We have been rethinking how we can best contribute to the profound challenges facing democracies today. We are planning an event in 2023 to bring together the diverse and fragmented...
by kultur.work | Dec 12, 2022 | Blog, News and Comment
By Hanne Bastiaensen and max stearns, Democratic Society Who we are Hanne Bastiaensen is trained as a sociologist and has worked in the field of democratic innovation for over a decade, mainly in designing and implementing projects and processes. More recently she is...
by kultur.work | Dec 12, 2022 | Blog, News and Comment
By Lukas Kübler, Giulia Molinengo, and Monika Arzberger Lukas Kübler, Giulia Molinengo and Monika Arzberger work at the Collaborative Governance Lab (Co:Lab), a public sector innovation lab of the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) in...
by kultur.work | Dec 12, 2022 | Blog, News and Comment
Jake Ainscough (pictured on the left) is a Senior Research Associate on the Climate Citizens project at Lancaster University. Climate Citizens is a research project exploring options for opening up climate policy making to the public. He interviewed Chris Stark...
by kultur.work | Dec 9, 2022
The Democracy Network is a “network of people and organisations working on issues of power, democracy and voice in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland”. It works to “build a stronger democracy by connecting people and supporting collaboration, increasing...
by Ariella Shalev | May 2, 2022
The future of everyday democracy is an interactive visualization of a future world, created by Finn Strivens, Eva Oosterlaken, and The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta). This vision was also inspired by the 19 winners of the Democracy...
by Ariella Shalev | Apr 28, 2022
By using creative ways to inform and engage people of all generations, The Democracy Box project aims to make sure that everyone understands UK democracy. The Democracy Box is a neutral and non-party political project based in Wales and stems from the understanding...
by Ariella Shalev | Apr 25, 2022
mySociety is a not-for-profit organisation promoting and developing online technologies to enhance civic participation. Established in 2003, mySociety operates across three practice areas: democracy, transparency, and community. Additionally, mySociety is aiming to...
by Ariella Shalev | Apr 13, 2022 | News and Comment
FDSD believes that democracy needs to adapt in order to meet the challenges of sustainable development, but equally that democracy itself is a better away of achieving sustainable goals than autocracy. However, our current democratic system has been facing challenges...
by Ariella Shalev | Mar 29, 2022
Participatory Futures refer to a range of approaches for collectively imagining, exploring, and designing the landscape of possible futures. These approaches can provide a mechanism to incorporate long-term thinking within democratic systems and improve...
by Ariella Shalev | Mar 24, 2022 | News and Comment
On the 22nd March 2022 the President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sous, announced that he is to champion intergenerational fairness. This announcement took part in an event hosted by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, who have been working with the School Of...
by Ariella Shalev | Mar 24, 2022 | News and Comment
On the 16th March 2022 the Greater Manchester Combined Authority launched Manchester’s first Community Wealth Hub. The development of this hub arose from a recommendation of the Greater Manchester Independent Inequalities Commission to “Create a Community Wealth Hub...
by Ariella Shalev | Mar 10, 2022
As part of Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, national indicators for measuring progress towards the achievement of the Well-being goals must be published by Welsh ministers. A national indicator must “be expressed as a value or...
by Ariella Shalev | Mar 9, 2022
The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act places obligations on 44 public bodies in Wales to meet Well-being goals while maintaining the sustainable development principle. The Act also establishes a Future Generations Commissioner for Wales as a new institution...
by Ariella Shalev | Mar 9, 2022 | News and Comment
The Future Trends Report Wales 2021 brings together possible future trends, drivers of change and potential risks across all sectors comprising the wellbeing of Wales. The report highlights intergenerational challenges to which Wales needs to respond and identifies...
by Ariella Shalev | Mar 9, 2022
On 4th May 2020 the first Future Generations Report was published by the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, Sophie Howe, as part of her statutory duties. The report was published under the 2016 to 2021 administration of the Welsh Government and marked 5 years...
by Ariella Shalev | Feb 21, 2022 | News and Comment
The article “Can Cities Use the Doughnut Model to Hack Liberal Democracy?” published by Olivia Lazard in Carnegie Europe in February 2022, explores some of the challenges of creating sustainable economic systems. The Doughnut Model developed by Kate...
by Ariella Shalev | Jan 31, 2022
The Intergenerational Solidarity Index (ISI), created by Jamie McQuilkin, measures the extent to which a nation provides for the wellbeing of its future generations. The ISI covers 122 countries and over 91% of the world’s population. This index is measured by using...
