Parliamentary Architectures

Parliamentary Architectures are the physical, spatial or digital devices that make democratic conversation possible.

They can be a chair for collecting testimonies, a blackboard for writing emerging rights, a deliberation table, a small parliament, a totem in a market, a temporary structure in a square or a website connecting voices, sessions and declarations.

They are not just scenography. They help convene people, care for the conversation, record what is said and transform an everyday space into a place where a community can think together.

In the Declaration, Parliamentary Architectures work as democratic infrastructures: they bring public debate closer to everyday life and allow local voices to travel towards rights, safeguards and public policies.