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Cultural Interventions

Projects listed here have been completed or remained dormant for more than 12 months, though they may be revived in the future. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of Democracy School projects and initiatives. For more information, to share ideas or propose a collaboration, please contact us using the form provided here.
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Forest Ecologies

...is a long-term Democracy School initiative that brings artists, scientists, theorists, planners, activists and local residents into a shared conversation about forests -- their ecology and our economies. The initiative is structured through CIRCULAR, a concept and framework detailed in our Field Guide.  [more]

Publications

  • CIRCULAR - Rules & Relationships - A Field Guide
  • Building the Matrix - A Case Study in Adaptive Framework Design
  • Småland Forest Report - Updated: April 2025
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​FEED // a_social_opera

With this project, we aim to create an imagined world in word and sound that enables us to engage not only artistically and aesthetically, but also critically and ethically, with the increasing fragmentation and polarisation of society at a time of global crisis. [more]

Publications

  • FEED // a_social_opera

Useful Links

  • Project Page
  • The ideas underpinning FEED
  • The story of FEED this far
  • ​The Instant Opera Manifesto​
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Silent Lectures​

...at their most basic, consist of people coming together in peace to jointly contemplate in silence something that matters to them: a loss, an injustice or a victory for example. [more]

Publications

  • Silent Lecture Concept and Form
  • Silent Lecture Info Pack

Useful Links

​​Web pages
  • ​​silentlectures.org​
  • unruhe.eu/silent-lectures​
​​​​Documentation
  • unruhe.eu/notes/category/silent-lectures
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WePolter!

...is a loose network of artists who, through their practice cross, blur or erase the line between art and politics. They are not affiliated with any political party, but are nonetheless committed to bringing about fundamental and lasting social, environmental and economic change. [more]

Useful Links

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  • Commentary & Debate
    • Annotations
    • re:frame & dis:kursiv
    • Substack
  • Cultural Interventions
    • The CIRCULAR
    • Silent Lectures
    • Project Archive
  • Capacity Building
    • Practising Possibility
    • Experiential Learning
    • Narrative Coaching
  • The School
    • About us >
      • The School
      • Our History
      • Contact
    • Corporate Services >
      • Knowledge Base
      • Consultancy Services
      • Evaluations
    • Publishing >
      • Unruhe Media
      • LHA Media