Challenging cultural conversations are often terrifying and emotionally fraught because they reveal how varied people's beliefs can be—but what if we could create shared maps of human perspectives? Patcon will share a Google Maps-inspired tool he's built on top of Polis' agree/disagree data, revealing ways that people can come together despite all their complexities and contradictions—making our differences a little less terrifying.
Speakers
patcon
Patcon is a public servant and independent researcher of deliberative democracy. Beneath the surface, his interests include: structure and disorder in governance, complexity science, origins of life, operationalizing anarchy, the lines between individuals and collectives, small-world networks, the divinity of metaphor, and how non-verbal human intuition—curiosity, laughter, surprise, eeriness—orients us toward "livingness" in the universe.