Building Our Muscle for Democracy with Prof. Ceasar McDowell (S2E8)
[MUSIC PLAYING] CEASAR MCDOWELL: The people who are living in cities represent a complexity of the human experience that we've never organized around. If you have a democracy, and you need your public to be able to be engaged, you need to have a system for doing that. We actually don't have one for that kind of public. [MUSIC PLAYING] SARAH HANSEN: Today on the podcast, we're exploring the world of civic design and re-imagining what public engagement in demographically complex communities might look like. [MUSIC PLAYING] CEASAR MCDOWELL: There are no complete solutions. You have to learn how to make decisions in the midst of ambiguity, which means, for you internally, you have to have your own dialogue with yourself. [MUSIC PLAYING] SARAH HANSEN: I'm your host, Sarah Hansen. In this episode, I'm talking with an MIT professor who bravely navigates along the deepest rifts in our public discourse, and who works with students and communities alike to step ...