Bringing people together can be a risky business. You invite people from different parts of the society. They might distrust you. They might also distrust the people they expect to meet. Part ofRead More
Democratic institutions around the world seem to be losing appeal for an increasing number of citizens. Many of the debates in Western social and political science and philosophy in recent decades have revolvedRead More
In August we will start a second round of our workshop series Empowerment through Deliberation and Theater at the Oskar community center in Potsdam Drewitz. This time we would like to bring refugeeRead More
Political communities occasionally come to crossroads where fundamental, far-reaching decisions must be made. At such times, it can enhance the democratic and substantive quality of decision-making if significant numbers of citizens are invitedRead More
With the support of the Partnerschaft für Demokratie in Teltow-Fläming and the German Red Cross we will again implement a dozen workshops with recently arrived refugees in Wünsdorf (Brandenburg). As in previous years,Read More
As in 2019, we enjoyed a long series of deliberations with refugees in the refugee home in Wünsdorf. The project was supported by the German Red Cross and the federal program “Demokratie Leben!”Read More
With the generous support of the municipality of Rangsdorf we started a long cycle of workshops with migrants living in the two refugee homes in this town, South of Berlin. We discuss themesRead More
We started a series of workshops on all sorts of discrimination in the Grace Hopper Gesamtschule in Teltow. We will be present in the school for almost a year, interacting about two timesRead More
In August 2020 Social Science Works has started a series of workshops by women for women in a Potsdam refugee accommodation. The innovative aspect of this workshop is the interweaving of deliberative discussionRead More
In 2019 Social Science Works enjoyed a close cooperation with a district-school in Hamburg. We formed two groups of about 12 pupils each that volunteered to participate in our deliberative project on discrimination,Read More
