Book
Remaking Democracy: How We Make the Worlds We Want is a liberatory education project and guidebook for social change. It teaches how to analyze problems, consult desires, and design social interventions to grow participation and democratic power.
Danielle Chynoweth and Elizabeth Adams offer analysis and strategy for sustainable social transformation from decades of organizing and teaching. This accessible and practical resource presents case studies alongside a design toolkit that equips readers to participate in creating the abundant worlds we want.
Instead of offering a single solution, Remaking Democracy helps us create the abundant variety of solutions we need to survive and thrive.
Authors
Danielle Chynoweth
Danielle Chynoweth is a media justice and housing rights leader who organizes with impacted residents to build power through strategic interventions that grow healing and hope. She works to end homelessness the elected Township Supervisor. She was the Organizing Director for Media Justice and co-founded the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. She teaches at the University of Illinois, School for Designing a Society, and internationally. LinkedIn
Elizabeth Adams
Elizabeth Adams, PhD, is a composer, teacher, and caregiver who has worked at the intersection of art, education, and organizing for over twenty years. She produces anti-capitalist music concerts, created pop-up political education spaces with Free University NYC, and won historic rent laws with the Crown Heights Tenant Union. She has taught at Columbia University and the School for Designing a Society. www.arttothinkwith.org
Collaborators
Mark Enslin, DMA
Composer, performer, activist and teacher, Mark Enslin studied music at Webster College and has a doctorate in music composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At the University of Illinois. Mark taught in Unit One, a living/learning program, offering courses such as Music in Protest, the Art of Acting as Audience, and the Performers Workshop Ensemble. Enslin has held teaching residencies at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil and the Youth Factory for Alternative Culture in Seoul, South Korea. He is a Founder and Instructor in the School for Designing a Society in Urbana. His doctoral dissertation is Teaching Composition Facing the Power of the Respondent. His article “Listening and Unentitled” was published in Cybernetics and Human Knowing. Read more.
Dr. Meadow Jones
Dr. Meadow Jones received her PhD from the University of Illinois. Her dissertation “Archiving the Trauma Diaspora: Affective Artifacts in the Higher Education Arts Classroom” focused on the use of artistic and material practices in the redress of trauma. In combination with her experience as an AWA facilitator she has adapted her research and created trauma responsive curriculum and workshops. She is social practice artist, an award winning filmmaker and community organizer. Her work has been published in literary journals, peer reviewed scientific journals, poetry collections, books and chapbooks. www.meadowjones.com