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Systemic Design for Democratic Engagement: Where the bottom-up and top-down process meet

Format: Papers, RSD8, RSD8 Papers, Topic: Policy & Governance

Juan de La Rosa, Stan Ruecker, Claudia Grisales and Carolina Giraldo

This paper presents an argument to open possibilities and discussions about the role of design in democratic participation based on the case studies and observations of several grassroots participatory design workshops ran with the intention of producing a tangible transformation of communities. We do not intent to validate the model, but to present it as a conversational object in the role of design in democratic policy making.

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de La Rosa, J., Ruecker, S., Grisales, C., & Giraldo, C. (2019). Systemic design for democratic engagement: where the bottom-up and top-down process meet. Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design. https://rsdsymposium.org/systemic-design-for-democratic-engagement/

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Author(s): Juan de La Rosa, Stan Ruecker, Claudia Grisales, and Carolina Giraldo
Year: 2020
Title: Systemic Design for Democratic Engagement: Where the bottom-up and top-down process meet
Published in: Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design
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Post URL: https://rsdsymposium.org/systemic-design-for-democratic-engagementsystemic-design-for-democratic-engagement
Host: IIT Institute of Design
Location: Chicago
Symposium Dates: October 23–28, 2019
First published: 4 October 2019
Updated: 15 May 2026
Publisher Identification: ISSN 2371-8404