Presenting My Response To J. Vink's “Designing for Plurality in Democracy by building reflexivity” (this issue of The Pluralist), I feel the urge to divert from the conventional format of a commentary. In place of analyzing and recontextualizing her ideas or linking them with further relevant literature, I would like to use this opportunity to embark on a self-reflective inquiry into effects that Dr Vink's impulses had on my own thoughts and interactions. I would like to interpret her paper as one step in a design process that is continuing as we are holding this meeting. At present, we are largely oblivious as to what the product will be, how its material and “invisible” aspects will be experienced, or what it will do for or with us, but it will amount to more than a peer-reviewed collection in a journal, I feel. Perhaps it would make sense to imagine...

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