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'Agonistic Assemblies' asks, if it is possible to design a politics of, by and for the people
In the preface to Agonistic Assemblies, a book that explores the socio-political dimension of urban design edited by Markus Miessen, Chantal Mouffe brings up agonism as a model of democracy. It immediately brought to my mind the recently concluded …