LSE Cities

Trust in experts and political leaders is required in the context of covid and in relation to other complex emergencies that are prolonged. What is the contribution of municipal governors to add to the value definition and the exchange? Participation, deliberation which adds to the participatory dimension. To deliver positive change and outcomes we need to go beyond tested and well-tried resolutions and embrace experiments. Cities have a condition where you can scale experiments, maybe better in another context where you can identify development. In an age of uncertainty these experiments are critical. Trust building: exploring new forms of democratic legitimacy, real experimentation with new forms of deliberation, reframe some of these contemporary discussion for a government by empathy, utilizing the existing trust and work with trusted institutions (this is importance in the first instance), truth telling. Find new representation going from participation to deliberation. How we are going to include young people?