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Creative democracy

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  • John Dewey is said to have coined this term in his 1939 essay The Task Before Us.
  • Notably, John Chris Jones used it for his 1998 book Creative Democracy, with extended notes to the future.
  • Today it is increasingly associated with the emergence of altruistic, collaborative networks. 
  • For example, the Creative Commons movement. 
  • Perhaps we can find the political origins of these tendencies in anarchism.
  • The role of design in the process is less than straightforward.
  • It also relates to a number of terms that describe a high level of network consciousness in which control of the whole system is evenly distributed among its parts.
  • One form of creative democracy derives from Arthur Koestler's term holarchy.