A CONSTITUTION FOR 2076 

Client: Democracy 2076

In collaboration with Altimeter Design Group

Team: Megan Valanidas, Maxwell Fertik, Irina Wang, Rachel Margolis (Graphic Design)

Services: Strategic Design, Participatory Design & Community Engagement; Governance

Designing a strategic foresight process to envision what a Constitution for 2076 needs to include to ensure an effective, responsive, and representative democracy. The Constitution for 2076 agenda included sessions for networking, strategic foresight exercises, and thoughtful analysis.


Excerpt from Democracy 2076
Americans are losing faith in democracy and authoritarianism is stepping into the gap. There has been a 25-year decline in public trust in institutions and optimism about the next generation’s future. The lack of long-term thinking in the U.S. democracy field makes us ill-prepared for the changes that will impact American democracy in the coming decades because we are not proactively anticipating ever-evolving circumstances like climate change and demographic shifts. Democracy 2076 seeks to imagine and develop democracy that is effective and responsive, representative of future generations, and resilient in the face of change.



An overview of all the participating groups engaging in exercises and discussions for a second round of World Building with a layer of projections added in such as demographic shifts, climate change, and the future of work. Participants reflecting on their World Building exercise to imagine their scenario archetypes in a 50 year timeline. Participants engaging in a powerful distillation process to create 3 new amendments they would like to see in the Constitution.

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