Participatory Governance

Participatory civic practices reframe community priorities.

Explore how this evolves in the 2020 Forecast in New Civic Literacies.

Real World Application

Disciplines of readiness focus on building resilience
A VUCA world demands preparedness and clarity for unexpected futures. Personal life skills such as re-scripting a coherent, meaningful narrative of one’s personal life path outside of traditional social family and lifecycle norms become critical for navigating the surprises of VUCA. Communities will respond to VUCA with participative forms of governance, such as the bottom–up, participatory budgeting practice in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which has lifted the city to one of the best places to live in Brazil. Developing a culture and practice of readiness for students, families, and communities becomes a core function of public schools in VUCA communities.