# Democracy Is a Verb: Democracy as a lived infrastructure

*Notebook · In editing · Public Mesh Editions · Domenico Di Siena*

Democracy as something we do, not only something we defend. Five pieces on the infrastructures of democratic life: slow institutions as a defence against speed, cooperatives quietly rebuilding, and civic spaces that generate collective meaning.

## Details

- **Collection:** Living Democracy
- **Format:** Notebook · PDF and small print run
- **Contents:** 5 pieces
- **Origin:** Series published in Public Mesh Journal
- **Publisher:** Public Mesh Editions, Valencia

## Contents

1. [Public Mesh, in Progress](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/public-mesh-in-progress)
2. [Democracy Is a Verb](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/democracy-is-a-verb)
3. [Slow Institutions Are Not the Problem](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/slow-institutions-are-not-the-problem)
4. [When Citizens Become the Economy](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/when-citizens-become-the-economy)
5. [Not Just a Place: How Civic Spaces Become Engines of Collective Meaning](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/not-just-a-place-how-civic-spaces)

## Links

- [Read the series in the Journal](https://publicmesh.substack.com/p/public-mesh-in-progress)

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Domenico Di Siena: Domenico Di Siena is a civic designer, architect and researcher. For more than twenty years he has worked with cities, European programmes and institutions on participation, public innovation and civic infrastructure.

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