Democratising Transformation – Changing Systems with and for Society

Caroline Paulick-Thiel, Indy Johar

2022 Collaboration & Communication English Participation & Engagement

2839 – that’s the number of days we have left to peacefully organise humanity’s survival on Earth. A series of paradigm shifts lie ahead of us in order to live within planetary boundaries and care for all generations after us.

The countdown is set!

Starting with the “Digital Kick Off Day” we have 68136 hours to transform our societies together. Instead of leaving this immense task to those who have benefited from divisive and degenerative approaches, everybody should be able to actively engage in building a distributed and regenerative future.

How can societal transformation processes be democratised?

If creative bureaucracy strengthens our agency and capability to act, we can fundamentally change the way we feed, power or move ourselves. Politics for Tomorrow and Dark Matter Laboratories invite you to explore this question in four provocative Academy sessions. Together with exciting partners, we will explore new practical perspectives to #embrace2030.

Caroline Paulick-Thiel

Director / Politics for Tomorrow

Caroline Paulick-Thiel is a strategic designer and expert in responsible innovation. Trained in Design (BA) and Public Policy (MPP), she has extensive experience in developing and leading participatory processes to address public challenges. Since 2015, she is the director of Politics for Tomorrow (politicsfortomorrow.eu), a non-partisan initiative that promotes public transformation and collaborates with political-administrative institutions from the local to the highest federal level in Germany. The current flagship project addresses the period between 2022-2025 as a drastic intervention space – especially for the strategic alignment of organisational routines (10×100.cc).

Since 2020, Caroline has been supporting the Senate Chancellery of Berlin and CityLAB as part of the Smart City core team in the co-creative design of the new digital strategy (strategie.smart-city-berlin.de). For the Creative Bureaucracy Festival, she initiated the Academy, which has provided space for experiential learning and creative responses to public issues since the event’s conception in 2018. In addition, she is a member of various advisory boards and teaches “Public Design” in different disciplines.

Indy Johar

Founding Director/ Dark Matter Labs

Indy Johar is an architect, co-founder of 00 (project00.cc) and most recently Dark Matter, Studio Master at AA.

Indy, on behalf of 00, has co-founded multiple social ventures from Impact Hub Westminster to Impact Hub Birmingham, along with working with large global multinationals & institutions to support their transition to a positive Systems Economy. He has also co-led research projects such as The Compendium for the Civic Economy, whilst supporting several 00 explorations/experiments including the wikihouse.cc, opendesk.cc. Indy is a non executive director of WikiHouse Foundation & RIBA Trustee and Advisor to Mayor of London on Good Growth.

Most recently he has founded Dark Matter – a field laboratory focused on radically redesigning the bureaucratic & institutional infrastructure of our cities, regions and towns for a more democratic, distributed great transition.

Dark Matter work with institutions around the world, from UNDP (Global), McConnell (Canada), TFL, GLA (London) to Bloxhub (Copenhagen)

He has taught, lecturedat various institutions from the University of Bath, TU-Berlin; Architectural Association, University College London, Princeton, Harvard, MIT and New School.

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