A Field Guide to Democratized Living: Making the Worlds We Want

We are at a watershed moment of rising fascism and rising seas. Yet, our ability to connect and collaborate in creating our societies has never been greater. The urgent question is: How do we build democratic participation everywhere?

Remaking Democracy: How We Make the Worlds We Want is a guidebook for social change. It provides strategy and tools to create a more just and desirable future for everyone. It empowers people from all walks of life to analyze root causes of the problems we face and design actions, transforming ourselves as we transform the world. Stories of successful projects illuminate the book’s theory in action. Remaking Democracy teaches how to proliferate participation and grow democratic practices, so that those affected by systems can become their creators. It equips us to design the abundant variety of solutions our surviving and thriving require.

Danielle Chynoweth is a local-to-national leader in the Media Justice and Housing Rights movements. As an elected public servant, she has designed alternative crisis response, family shelter, and Solidarity Gardens, and spearheaded public arts, community broadband, solar affordable housing, and police oversight. She was the Organizing Director for Media Justice and cofounded the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. She teaches social change at the University of Illinois, the School for Designing a Society, and internationally.

Elizabeth Adams, PhD, is a composer, teacher, and caregiver, who has worked at the intersection of art, education, and organizing for over twenty years. As a knowledge worker intent on creating the cultural change that will support social justice, she co-instigated Julie & Elizabeth’s Anti-Capitalist Concert Series, and organized with the Crown Heights Tenant Union, Free University NYC, and What A Neighborhood! She has taught at Columbia University and the School for Designing a Society.