Zwischen 2017 und 2021 hat sich die Innocracy als eine der größten Konferenzen für demokratische Innovation und Transformation in Europa etabliert. Gemeinsam mit verschiedenen Partner:innen konnten wir Analysen und Visionen für eine resiliente Demokratie entwickeln.
Im Jahr 2022 hat die Konferenz eine einjährige Pause eingelegt. Wir haben diese Zeit genutzt, um die Innocracy neu zu denken. Da die Verschärfung der Klimakrise mit zahlreichen weiteren Herausforderungen einhergeht, sind demokratische Innovationen schwer gefragt. Um die sozial-ökologische Transformation unserer Gesellschaft zu realisieren, müssen Demokratien anpassungsfähiger, inklusiver und resilienter werden. Aus diesem Grund haben wir beschlossen, die Innocracy auf den Zusammenhang von Demokratie und der gerechten Transfomation auszurichten.
Welche Ideen, Perspektiven und Instrumente hält die Demokratiepolitik – die Gestaltung der Demokratie als eigenes Politikfeld – für die Bewältigung der Klimakrise bereit? Das ist die Frage, die im Zentrum der Innocracy23 stand. Bei der sechsten Ausgabe unserer großen zivilgesellschaftlichen Konferenz haben wir gemeinsam mit 200 Akteur:innen aus Politik, Wissenschaft, Medien und Zivilgesellschaft in Berlin über Rolle und Gestaltung der Demokratiepolitik in der Klimakrise diskutiert.
Die Konferenzsprache ist seit 2023 deutsch.
Vergangene Konferenzen
2023: Demokratiepolitik in der Klimakrise
Unsere Demokratie können wir nur durch eine Demokratiepolitik erhalten, die unsere Institutionen und Prozesse klimagerecht gestaltet. Die Innocracy23 wendete sich deshalb der größten Herausforderung der Gegenwart und Zukunft zu: der Bewältigung der Klimakrise. Durch welche Instrumente kann die Demokratie dazu beitragen, die Klimakrise zu bekämpfen? Wie kann unsere Demokratie inklusiver und resilienter werden und so die Transformation gerecht gestalten? Darum ging es bei der Innocracy23: um die Ausgestaltung von Demokratiepolitik in der Klimakrise. Um das Wie, Wann, Wo und Wer einer gerechten und demokratischen Transformation.
Dafür haben wir am 17. November 2023 in Berlin die demokratie- und klimapolitische Szene zusammengebracht. Mit vielen spannenden Akteur:innen aus Politik, Wissenschaft, Medien und Zivilgesellschaft sind wir einen Tag lang in den intensiven Austausch gegangen, haben politisch gestritten und neue Ansätze und Ideen entwickelt. Dabei haben wir uns im Programm an vier Spannungsfeldern zwischen Demokratie und Klimakrise orientiert, die parallel wirken und sich wechselseitig verstärken: Geschwindigkeit, Gesellschaft, Gebiet und Generation.
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Legitimationsprobleme einer klimaschädlichen Republik
Autor: Oliver Weber
Steht die Legitimität der Demokratie selbst infrage, wenn sie die Klimakrise nicht bewältigt, da sie künftig sehr weitreichende Auswirkungen auf die Grundlagen der Demokratie hätte? Keynote im Rahmen der Innocracy23.
Aufzeichnungen der Sessions
2021: Democratising Democracy
We often think of improving democracy in terms of widening and deepening the possibilities of participation. In this understanding, democratisation means that more people should be able to participate in the political process in more innovative and impactful forms. While the question of who is able to participate in democratic decision-making processes is crucial, it should not divert our attention from the equally important question of what it is that we (do not) democratically decide about.
At Innocracy 2021, we wanted to identify fields which are excluded or are being removed from democratic control and explore whether and how (re-)democratising them could lead to a better future. We want to move from liberal democracy as a state we must defend to democratisation as a process we must develop.
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Reader: Innocracy 2021
Authors: Paulina Fröhlich, Paul Jürgensen, Maxine Fowé
The aim of Innocracy 2021 was to to identify fields which are excluded or are being removed from democratic control and explore whether and how (re-)democratising them could lead to a better future.
Rewatch the Sessions
Democracy and the climate crisis: Conflicting logics of speed, space and time
About the Innocracy 2021
This was Innocracy 2021 – “Democratising Democracy”!
#MyDemocratisation
2020: Bringing the Future Back to Democracy
In the face of systemic challenges such as the climate crisis, we must transform the way we live, consume and produce as societies. Yet, no transformation can succeed without a clear sense of direction. We need tangible visions of the future that unify and integrate democracies on their way forward.
Candid conversations about our shared future deserve a range of perspectives. At Innocracy you could listen to, engage, and think together with voices stemming from Japan, Georgia, Wales, and dozens of other places around the world. Framed by their work in the arts, technology, civil society, politics, and academia, these thought-leaders discussed their own visions for our future.
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Reader: Innocracy 2020
Authors: Hanno Burmester, Paulina Fröhlich, Paul Jürgensen
Innocracy 2020 was our platform for exploring democratic future visions. We discovered new perspectives together with political decision-makers, activists, artists, civil society actors and academics from Europe and beyond.
Rewatch the Sessions
Opening session: Bringing the future back to democracy. With Helena Marschall, Jonathan Rowson & Jens Südekum
About the Innocracy 2020
This was Innocracy 2020!
2019: Democratic Transformation: Exploring Pathways for Inclusive Sustainable Societies
Global warming, the digital revolution and social inequality put modern democracy to test. The institutions of the modern democratic state are designed for the challenges of a different era. Therefore, they struggle to meaningfully respond to an increasingly disruptive environment.Change-makers from both civil society and politics face the pressing question: How must we transform democracy to make it fit for the future? What are the levers for developing and realising reforms that enable a democratic, sustainable and inclusive future?
To transform democracy, we must imagine alternatives to the status quo – and realise them via the democratic political process. This is why we devoted this year’s Innocracy Conference to the “How” of democratic transformation. How can the political system successfully reform itself? How can society and politics rediscover their transformative potential?
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Rewatch the Sessions
The Innocracy Conference 2019 was hosted on October 10, by Das Progressive Zentrum. 25 speakers from 11 European countries came to share their insights on democratic transformation with over 700 participants from all over Europe.
About the Innocracy 2019
Thinking beyond incremental change
Innocracy 2019: (Re)Watch it online!
2018: The Next Democracy: Transforming Paradigms, Institutions and the Market
After a first successful conference in November 2017, the Democracy Lab of Das Progressive Zentrum organised its second Innocracy Conference entitled “The Next Democracy: Transforming Paradigms, Institutions and the Market. In four thematic clusters – Digital Democracy, Sustainable Democracy, Community and Belonging, as well as Systemic Reform – this year’s conference brought together over 180 participants from Germany, France, Belgium, the UK, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands and Poland. The conference offered speakers and participants a platform to debate, inspire and co-create in innovative workshop formats. The day was closed with the keynote speech given by Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth Franziska Giffey.
All speakers and session hosts were invited to attend a Speaker’s Dinner the evening before the common conference, where they discussed how to build transformative alliances. Ana Babovic, Executive Director of the global Leading Change Network, gave an input on the topic, and Kaija Landsberg, Managing Director of the Hertie Foundation, gave a response, before all participants started a broader discussion and got to know each other before the conference the next day.
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Rewatch the Sessions
Democracy and the climate crisis: Conflicting logics of speed, space and time
About the Innocracy 2018
Videos der INNOCRACY 2018
Conference Report: Innocracy 2018
2017: Anthology on Democratic Innovation
During the „Innocracy — Conference on Democratic Innovation“, Das Progressive Zentrum’s Democracy Lab brought together 120 participants and 26 speakers from 12 countries, offering a stage to noteworthy ideas to exchange paradigms, rewrite ground rules for democracy, and improve existing processes.
Democratic systems need to be able to shape an increasingly complex world and respond to the socio-economic, cultural, technological, and ecological transformation processes societies are going through. Both radical systemic transformation and incremental improvements are necessary to drive meaningful and constructive change.
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Reader: Innocracy 2017
Authors: Hanno Burmester, Sophie Pornschlegel, Laura-Kristine Krause
Conference on Democratic Innovation took place at betahaus Berlin on 28 November 2017. The ideas formed to transform democratic systems – either by incrementally improving them or radically changing paradigms – are presented in this Anthology.
Rewatch the Sessions
INNOCRACY Keynote “People, Prosperity, and our Planet – Governing the Anthropocene” by Maja Göpel, Secretary General, German Advisory Council on Global Change.
Team
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