4 titles
Civic Design
The method and its tools: designing relationships, collaboration and shared capacity — not just spaces.
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Ideas that hold public life together.
Books, podcasts, aggregators and courses on democracy, technology and civic infrastructure — for the people building public life.
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Forthcoming
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Civic Design
Domenico Di Siena
Civic Design: Collective Intelligence for Public and Social Innovation.
The book that systematises the Civic Design method: how to move from designing for people to designing with them, and how to keep collective intelligence alive once the workshop ends. Funded through a crowdfunding campaign that confirmed the interest of readers, practitioners and institutions. Production is underway.
- Editions
- Spanish · English · Italian · French
- Funding
- Crowdfunding · goal reached
- Availability
- Online purchase coming soon
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From the catalogue
To read and to consult.
Books, notebooks and tools. Each notebook gathers a series written in the open in the Journal; the archive keeps earlier publications, from 2006 onwards.
PM.Book
Civic Design
Domenico Di Siena
Civic Design
Collective Intelligence for Public and Social Innovation
In productionPM.Book
Sensitive Spaces
Domenico Di Siena
Sensitive Spaces
Physical–digital hybridisation for the revitalisation of public spaces
AvailablePM.Notebook
The Craft of Change
Domenico Di Siena
The Craft of Change
Why best practice so often fails in government
In editingPM.Notebook
Democracy Is a Verb
Domenico Di Siena
Democracy Is a Verb
Democracy as a lived infrastructure
In editing
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Public Mesh Journal
What gets told in the open.
One piece a week, written in the open. The series that begin here become notebooks.
Essay · Metacívica
The Dopamine Cage of Digital Democracy
How platforms turned participation into reaction — and why federated networks and local AI could help us reclaim civic space.
26 Apr 2026Essay · MetacívicaPublic Mesh, Private Judgment
Why the future of democracy depends on preserving the frictions that make us human.
6 Apr 2026Essay · Living DemocracyPublic Mesh, in Progress
Exploring the infrastructures of democratic life in the digital age.
13 Mar 2026
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Collections
Four collections, one fabric.
Lines of work that run across the press, the outlet and the school.
1 title
Living Democracy
Democracy as something we do: everyday actions, civic experiments and communities reclaiming public space.
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Metacívica
How we inhabit a world that is physical and digital, local and networked — and who governs the infrastructures in between.
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Human & Tender
Leadership after heroics: attention, care, facilitation and doubt as part of the civic craft.
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