Democracy Garage

No one can solve big challenges alone. Everyone’s brains, hands, voices and innovation are needed to design more and better democracy to help shape our shared future. In ever-growing cities, there is increasing pressure for gathering places where we can come together across actors, life experiences, age and vantage points.

Democracy Garage is an attempt to reintroduce the idea of a community center with a democratic purpose, located in the heart of Northwest, a rapidly evolving neighborhood.
We Do Democracy has been the initiator of the Democracy Garage, which was created to facilitate meetings and conversations across local citizens, community actors and sectors.

In 2020, we moved into the old industrial buildings in Kbh. Nordvest, which previously housed a blacksmith and car repair shop. Today, the idea is that in the same buildings, we are overhauling democracy. Democracy Garage is a democratic workshop where we invent, develop and test new formats of democracy and rethink and innovate existing ones. We test how different actors working with democracy in different ways can collaborate and coexist under the same roof to strengthen each other and their democratic purpose.

In addition to being the initiators of the Democracy Garage, designers of the concept and partnership structure, We Do Democracy has been responsible for developing the content program and establishing the Democracy Garage as a non-profit umbrella organization across public actors, civil society, activists and entrepreneurs.

Follow Democracy Garage and see their many activities, offers, opportunities and solutions at https://www.demokratigarage.dk/