Claire Mellier
@clairemellier.bsky.social
Believer in #peoplepower #systemschange Participatory & Deliberative Democracy Knowledge & Practice lead iswe.org Co-founder globalassemblies.org Board member ipsp.org
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Claire Mellier
@clairemellier.bsky.social
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Are you at #LCAW? Join us to discuss the future of climate governance, citizens deliberation & Global Mutirão.
🌍 Reimagining Climate Governance
🗓️ Wednesday, 26 June
🕙 10am–12pm BST
📍 Wellcome Trust, The Gibbs Building, London, NW1 2BE
🎟️ Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-cli...
🌍 Reimagining Climate Governance
🗓️ Wednesday, 26 June
🕙 10am–12pm BST
📍 Wellcome Trust, The Gibbs Building, London, NW1 2BE
🎟️ Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-cli...
London Climate Action Week: Reimagining Climate Governance
Let's explore the future of climate governance with inspiring talks and innovative solutions at our event!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Are you at #LCAW? Join us to discuss the future of climate governance, citizens deliberation & Global Mutirão.
🌍 Reimagining Climate Governance
🗓️ Wednesday, 26 June
🕙 10am–12pm BST
📍 Wellcome Trust, The Gibbs Building, London, NW1 2BE
🎟️ Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-cli...
🌍 Reimagining Climate Governance
🗓️ Wednesday, 26 June
🕙 10am–12pm BST
📍 Wellcome Trust, The Gibbs Building, London, NW1 2BE
🎟️ Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-cli...
Reposted by Claire Mellier
In our effort to summarise the contours of the debate in relation to participant selection and recruitment methodologies for the GCA, @reemaspatel.bsky.social and @clairemellier.bsky.social wrote an article highlighting the emerging themes from the event.
iswe.org/blog/selecti...
iswe.org/blog/selecti...
Grappling with “Good Enough”: Rethinking How We Select Citizens for a Global Assembly | Iswe — Iswe
Who gets to represent humanity? This article explores the tensions, trade-offs, and democratic dilemmas in selecting participants for a truly global Citizens’ Assembly.
iswe.org
June 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
In our effort to summarise the contours of the debate in relation to participant selection and recruitment methodologies for the GCA, @reemaspatel.bsky.social and @clairemellier.bsky.social wrote an article highlighting the emerging themes from the event.
iswe.org/blog/selecti...
iswe.org/blog/selecti...
Reposted by Claire Mellier
In collaboration with @participedia.bsky.social we convened an online event that brought together over 100 participants to consider what citizen selection and recruitment could look like for the Global Citizens' Assembly for COP30 and beyond.
You can now read our summary:
iswe.org/blog/selecti...
You can now read our summary:
iswe.org/blog/selecti...
Grappling with “Good Enough”: Rethinking How We Select Citizens for a Global Assembly | Iswe — Iswe
Who gets to represent humanity? This article explores the tensions, trade-offs, and democratic dilemmas in selecting participants for a truly global Citizens’ Assembly.
iswe.org
June 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
In collaboration with @participedia.bsky.social we convened an online event that brought together over 100 participants to consider what citizen selection and recruitment could look like for the Global Citizens' Assembly for COP30 and beyond.
You can now read our summary:
iswe.org/blog/selecti...
You can now read our summary:
iswe.org/blog/selecti...
Follow @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social in his latest adventure "We need to talk about Elon".
Tune in to his livestream when he'll explore the role and ideology of the tech billionaires who are controlling our public square and trying to determine the future.
www.youtube.com/live/uogmc-c...
Tune in to his livestream when he'll explore the role and ideology of the tech billionaires who are controlling our public square and trying to determine the future.
www.youtube.com/live/uogmc-c...
May 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Follow @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social in his latest adventure "We need to talk about Elon".
Tune in to his livestream when he'll explore the role and ideology of the tech billionaires who are controlling our public square and trying to determine the future.
www.youtube.com/live/uogmc-c...
Tune in to his livestream when he'll explore the role and ideology of the tech billionaires who are controlling our public square and trying to determine the future.
www.youtube.com/live/uogmc-c...
Thank you to @internationalidea.bsky.social for the opportunity to reflect on what we've learned since the Global Assembly in 2021 and what is emerging in the lead up to COP30 with the Global Citizens' Assembly for People and Planet.
www.idea.int/blog/we-need...
www.idea.int/blog/we-need...
“We need to reclaim the 'system-disrupting' power of deliberative democracy:” An interview with Claire Mellier on Global Citizens' Assemblies
This interview is part of the series "Voices of Climate Democracy". The series provides a platform for insights from the people making climate assemblies happen around the world, through local, nation...
www.idea.int
May 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Thank you to @internationalidea.bsky.social for the opportunity to reflect on what we've learned since the Global Assembly in 2021 and what is emerging in the lead up to COP30 with the Global Citizens' Assembly for People and Planet.
www.idea.int/blog/we-need...
www.idea.int/blog/we-need...
Reposted by Claire Mellier
“We need to reclaim the 'system-disrupting' power of deliberative democracy” - @clairemellier.bsky.social Knowledge and Practice Lead at Iswe Foundation.
Read the full interview on Global Citizens' Assemblies ⬇️ #VoicesofClimateDemocracy #DemocracyForAll
www.idea.int/blog/we-need...
Read the full interview on Global Citizens' Assemblies ⬇️ #VoicesofClimateDemocracy #DemocracyForAll
www.idea.int/blog/we-need...
“We need to reclaim the 'system-disrupting' power of deliberative democracy:” An interview with Claire Mellier on Global Citizens' Assemblies
This interview is part of the series "Voices of Climate Democracy". The series provides a platform for insights from the people making climate assemblies happen around the world, through local, nation...
www.idea.int
May 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
“We need to reclaim the 'system-disrupting' power of deliberative democracy” - @clairemellier.bsky.social Knowledge and Practice Lead at Iswe Foundation.
Read the full interview on Global Citizens' Assemblies ⬇️ #VoicesofClimateDemocracy #DemocracyForAll
www.idea.int/blog/we-need...
Read the full interview on Global Citizens' Assemblies ⬇️ #VoicesofClimateDemocracy #DemocracyForAll
www.idea.int/blog/we-need...
Reposted by Claire Mellier
Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy – UK politics live
‘Any strategy based on either phasing out fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail,’ says former PM
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Reposted by Claire Mellier
This weekend, we will start to see the power of Resistance 2.0 with the HandsOff day of action on April 5th.
This map doesn’t do the mobilization justice—there are over 1000 events scheduled in All 50 states.
For details, see www.mobilize.us/handsoff/map/
This map doesn’t do the mobilization justice—there are over 1000 events scheduled in All 50 states.
For details, see www.mobilize.us/handsoff/map/
April 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This weekend, we will start to see the power of Resistance 2.0 with the HandsOff day of action on April 5th.
This map doesn’t do the mobilization justice—there are over 1000 events scheduled in All 50 states.
For details, see www.mobilize.us/handsoff/map/
This map doesn’t do the mobilization justice—there are over 1000 events scheduled in All 50 states.
For details, see www.mobilize.us/handsoff/map/
Reposted by Claire Mellier
Truth but let’s see if they give this large scale mobilization The attention it deserves. There are massive distributed, peaceful protests across the United States today.
Even the NYT can’t ignore us anymore! Gift link.
@bkindivisible.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
@bkindivisible.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
Anti-Trump Protests Get Underway Across the Country (Gift Article)
The mass action, “Hands Off!,” was planned at a time when many on the left have bemoaned what they considered a lack of strong resistance to President Trump.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Truth but let’s see if they give this large scale mobilization The attention it deserves. There are massive distributed, peaceful protests across the United States today.
Worth checking #HandsOff to get a sense of the uprising. Would be great to know who to follow for trustworthy updates. Can you advise? @joshalerner.bsky.social
@katyrubin.bsky.social
@clmalkin.bsky.social
@katyrubin.bsky.social
@clmalkin.bsky.social
Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC
April 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Worth checking #HandsOff to get a sense of the uprising. Would be great to know who to follow for trustworthy updates. Can you advise? @joshalerner.bsky.social
@katyrubin.bsky.social
@clmalkin.bsky.social
@katyrubin.bsky.social
@clmalkin.bsky.social
Reposted by Claire Mellier
Columbia University has a $15 billion endowment. It could have weathered the loss of $400 million and kept operating as normal. It made the discretionary choice to prioritize the size of its endowment over human rights and democracy.
Columbia Agrees to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped
The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Columbia University has a $15 billion endowment. It could have weathered the loss of $400 million and kept operating as normal. It made the discretionary choice to prioritize the size of its endowment over human rights and democracy.
Reposted by Claire Mellier
The press have caught up with this awful story of a violent police raid on a Quaker meeting house - front page of the Sunday Times today.
Beautiful line from a Quaker Elder “The only resistance I could put up was to make tea and drink it in front of them without offering them any.”
archive.ph/Ndh1z
Beautiful line from a Quaker Elder “The only resistance I could put up was to make tea and drink it in front of them without offering them any.”
archive.ph/Ndh1z
March 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM
The press have caught up with this awful story of a violent police raid on a Quaker meeting house - front page of the Sunday Times today.
Beautiful line from a Quaker Elder “The only resistance I could put up was to make tea and drink it in front of them without offering them any.”
archive.ph/Ndh1z
Beautiful line from a Quaker Elder “The only resistance I could put up was to make tea and drink it in front of them without offering them any.”
archive.ph/Ndh1z
Reposted by Claire Mellier
🌍 PAIRSx Africa: Pioneering new approaches to AI through Participation.
Online: 31 March 2025 from 13:00 to 15:00 Central African Time to advance the practice of participatory AI in Africa by convening researchers and practitioners of participatory methods in AI.
pairs25.notion.site/PAIRSx-Afri...
Online: 31 March 2025 from 13:00 to 15:00 Central African Time to advance the practice of participatory AI in Africa by convening researchers and practitioners of participatory methods in AI.
pairs25.notion.site/PAIRSx-Afri...
PAIRSx Africa: Pioneering new approaches to AI through Participation | Notion
Many scholars and policymakers in AI have begun sounding the drums for more participatory approaches to AI development and governance which incorporate diverse voices and perspectives. For many Africans, traditional approaches often do not result in equitable opportunities or benefits. As discussed extensively during the first iteration of the Participatory AI Research and Practice Symposium in Paris, a shift towards a participatory model challenges traditional, top-down and expert-driven approaches to AI governance. Participatory approaches move away from aggregated projections about the benefits of AI and allow more nuanced questions about trust and accountability, whether job opportunities are dignified and/or about the protections offered in a tech-driven economy where every online activity has commercial value.
pairs25.notion.site
March 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🌍 PAIRSx Africa: Pioneering new approaches to AI through Participation.
Online: 31 March 2025 from 13:00 to 15:00 Central African Time to advance the practice of participatory AI in Africa by convening researchers and practitioners of participatory methods in AI.
pairs25.notion.site/PAIRSx-Afri...
Online: 31 March 2025 from 13:00 to 15:00 Central African Time to advance the practice of participatory AI in Africa by convening researchers and practitioners of participatory methods in AI.
pairs25.notion.site/PAIRSx-Afri...
Reposted by Claire Mellier
Over the weekend I was listening back to the PAIRS session on use of AI as a tool of participation where @clairemellier.bsky.social invited reflections on the interaction of AI, participation and scale www.youtube.com/watch?v=45XR...
Using AI as a tool of Participation
YouTube video by Connected by Data
www.youtube.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Over the weekend I was listening back to the PAIRS session on use of AI as a tool of participation where @clairemellier.bsky.social invited reflections on the interaction of AI, participation and scale www.youtube.com/watch?v=45XR...
Reposted by Claire Mellier
It's a theme that Iñaki Goñi explores in this fantastic new paper on how STS and Deliberative democracy should talk more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... - exploring how for some "digital technologies promise to close the gap between careful deliberation and mass participation"
Citizen participation and technology: lessons from the fields of deliberative democracy and science and technology studies - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Citizen participation and technology: lessons from the fields of deliberative democracy and science and technology studies
www.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
It's a theme that Iñaki Goñi explores in this fantastic new paper on how STS and Deliberative democracy should talk more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... - exploring how for some "digital technologies promise to close the gap between careful deliberation and mass participation"
Reposted by Claire Mellier
📢 Call for participation!
Interested in innovative selection methods of the #GlobalCitizensAssembly?
Join us for the Global Citizens Assembly Citizen Selection and Recruitment Workshop, co-hosted with @iswe-foundation.bsky.social.
CFP and registration at the 🔗 ⬇️!
drive.google.com/file/d/1KBv-...
Interested in innovative selection methods of the #GlobalCitizensAssembly?
Join us for the Global Citizens Assembly Citizen Selection and Recruitment Workshop, co-hosted with @iswe-foundation.bsky.social.
CFP and registration at the 🔗 ⬇️!
drive.google.com/file/d/1KBv-...
March 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📢 Call for participation!
Interested in innovative selection methods of the #GlobalCitizensAssembly?
Join us for the Global Citizens Assembly Citizen Selection and Recruitment Workshop, co-hosted with @iswe-foundation.bsky.social.
CFP and registration at the 🔗 ⬇️!
drive.google.com/file/d/1KBv-...
Interested in innovative selection methods of the #GlobalCitizensAssembly?
Join us for the Global Citizens Assembly Citizen Selection and Recruitment Workshop, co-hosted with @iswe-foundation.bsky.social.
CFP and registration at the 🔗 ⬇️!
drive.google.com/file/d/1KBv-...
Reposted by Claire Mellier
🔔 Mark your calendars!
@iswe-foundation.bsky.social and @participedia.bsky.social invite you for an open virtual workshop exploring inclusive and innovative methods for #GlobalCitizensAssembly selection and recruitment.
📅 Date: 23 April 2025
⏰ Time: 6 - 8 P.M. CET
Register now!
@iswe-foundation.bsky.social and @participedia.bsky.social invite you for an open virtual workshop exploring inclusive and innovative methods for #GlobalCitizensAssembly selection and recruitment.
📅 Date: 23 April 2025
⏰ Time: 6 - 8 P.M. CET
Register now!
Global Citizens Assembly Citizen Selection and Recruitment Workshop
Co-hosted by Iswe Foundation and Participedia, this open virtual workshop will explore methods for global citizen assembly selection.
www.eventbrite.ca
March 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🔔 Mark your calendars!
@iswe-foundation.bsky.social and @participedia.bsky.social invite you for an open virtual workshop exploring inclusive and innovative methods for #GlobalCitizensAssembly selection and recruitment.
📅 Date: 23 April 2025
⏰ Time: 6 - 8 P.M. CET
Register now!
@iswe-foundation.bsky.social and @participedia.bsky.social invite you for an open virtual workshop exploring inclusive and innovative methods for #GlobalCitizensAssembly selection and recruitment.
📅 Date: 23 April 2025
⏰ Time: 6 - 8 P.M. CET
Register now!
Reposted by Claire Mellier
📢 Call for participation!
Interested in innovative selection methods of the #GlobalCitizensAssembly?
Join us for the Global Citizens Assembly Citizen Selection and Recruitment Workshop, co-hosted with @participedia.bsky.social
CFP and registration at the 🔗 below. ⬇️
drive.google.com/file/d/1KBv-...
Interested in innovative selection methods of the #GlobalCitizensAssembly?
Join us for the Global Citizens Assembly Citizen Selection and Recruitment Workshop, co-hosted with @participedia.bsky.social
CFP and registration at the 🔗 below. ⬇️
drive.google.com/file/d/1KBv-...
March 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
📢 Call for participation!
Interested in innovative selection methods of the #GlobalCitizensAssembly?
Join us for the Global Citizens Assembly Citizen Selection and Recruitment Workshop, co-hosted with @participedia.bsky.social
CFP and registration at the 🔗 below. ⬇️
drive.google.com/file/d/1KBv-...
Interested in innovative selection methods of the #GlobalCitizensAssembly?
Join us for the Global Citizens Assembly Citizen Selection and Recruitment Workshop, co-hosted with @participedia.bsky.social
CFP and registration at the 🔗 below. ⬇️
drive.google.com/file/d/1KBv-...
Reposted by Claire Mellier
This is what the Observer team & I were doing between strikes. Please read it because it couldn’t be more relevant. I interview @asifkapadia.bsky.social
about his alarming new film, 2073. It’s a stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us..
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
about his alarming new film, 2073. It’s a stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us..
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy
The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to ‘techno-authoritarianism’ in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist – one of the movie’s unlikely stars – about the events that fed...
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2024 at 9:36 AM
This is what the Observer team & I were doing between strikes. Please read it because it couldn’t be more relevant. I interview @asifkapadia.bsky.social
about his alarming new film, 2073. It’s a stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us..
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
about his alarming new film, 2073. It’s a stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us..
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
Reposted by Claire Mellier
Kapadia won an Oscar for Amy, his heartbreaking film about Amy Winehouse. This is emotional too, a sci fi thriller set in the future made of fragments of the present. I tell the story of how I accidentally ended up in the film. But it’s so much more than that.
youtu.be/YDE97KrYDuU?...
youtu.be/YDE97KrYDuU?...
2073 - Official Trailer
YouTube video by NEON
youtu.be
December 15, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Kapadia won an Oscar for Amy, his heartbreaking film about Amy Winehouse. This is emotional too, a sci fi thriller set in the future made of fragments of the present. I tell the story of how I accidentally ended up in the film. But it’s so much more than that.
youtu.be/YDE97KrYDuU?...
youtu.be/YDE97KrYDuU?...
"2073" opens in the UK cinemas on January 1st. A long awaited film by @asifkapadia.bsky.social which explores populist politics, surveillance technology, climate collapse.
Some will say: a dystopian future. Others will recognise our dystopian present.
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
Some will say: a dystopian future. Others will recognise our dystopian present.
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy
The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to ‘techno-authoritarianism’ in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist – one of the movie’s unlikely stars – about the events that fed...
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2024 at 4:23 PM
"2073" opens in the UK cinemas on January 1st. A long awaited film by @asifkapadia.bsky.social which explores populist politics, surveillance technology, climate collapse.
Some will say: a dystopian future. Others will recognise our dystopian present.
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
Some will say: a dystopian future. Others will recognise our dystopian present.
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
Reposted by Claire Mellier
As climate change accelerates, civic activism has diversified its tactics of engagement to progress on climate goals.
But the movement faces increasing repression & backlash. Read more in this compilation edited by Erin Jones & Richard Youngs ⬇️
But the movement faces increasing repression & backlash. Read more in this compilation edited by Erin Jones & Richard Youngs ⬇️
Civic Activism in an Intensifying Climate Crisis
To address the deepening climate crisis, climate activism is employing a wider variety of tactics and aiming at a broader set of goals. In response, the movement faces stronger repression and civic…
buff.ly
December 10, 2024 at 9:55 PM
As climate change accelerates, civic activism has diversified its tactics of engagement to progress on climate goals.
But the movement faces increasing repression & backlash. Read more in this compilation edited by Erin Jones & Richard Youngs ⬇️
But the movement faces increasing repression & backlash. Read more in this compilation edited by Erin Jones & Richard Youngs ⬇️
I am really happy to share our contribution to this book for @carnegiedcg.bsky.social about "Civic activism in an intensifying climate crisis".
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
Graham Smith & I explore the relationship between activism & the trajectory of climate assemblies.
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
Graham Smith & I explore the relationship between activism & the trajectory of climate assemblies.
December 13, 2024 at 1:24 PM
I am really happy to share our contribution to this book for @carnegiedcg.bsky.social about "Civic activism in an intensifying climate crisis".
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
Graham Smith & I explore the relationship between activism & the trajectory of climate assemblies.
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
Graham Smith & I explore the relationship between activism & the trajectory of climate assemblies.
Reposted by Claire Mellier
Many actors seek to reinvigorate democracy with citizen participation and deliberation. Citizens Assemblies are expected to have the potential to 'meet this objective and are spreading around the world. To offer a state of the art with M.Reuchamps & J.Vrydagh we edited 👇
OA doi.org/10.1515/9783...
OA doi.org/10.1515/9783...
November 19, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Many actors seek to reinvigorate democracy with citizen participation and deliberation. Citizens Assemblies are expected to have the potential to 'meet this objective and are spreading around the world. To offer a state of the art with M.Reuchamps & J.Vrydagh we edited 👇
OA doi.org/10.1515/9783...
OA doi.org/10.1515/9783...
Reposted by Claire Mellier
Great starter pack to follow 👇🏻
This is just the start of this starter pack! I need to include many more people, just let me know if you're one of them!
go.bsky.app/LudfrFq
go.bsky.app/LudfrFq
November 21, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Great starter pack to follow 👇🏻