participatory
adjective
par·tic·i·pa·to·ry
pär-ˈti-sə-pə-ˌtȯr-ē 
pər-
: characterized by or involving participation
especially
: providing the opportunity for individual participation
participatory democracy
participatory management
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In a participatory universe, one observer can ask a question and get an answer in response, and another observer can come along — tomorrow, next week, a billion years from now — and ask a different, incompatible question and get a different, incompatible answer.
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Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
But other forms of democracy — direct democracy (initiative and referenda), participatory democracy (as in budgeting), deliberative democracy (like citizen assemblies) and digital democracy (platforms like Pol.is and Decidim) — are growing, especially locally.
—Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
The latest surveillance technologies—digital disease detection, participatory surveillance systems, and exposure notification systems—should be available everywhere, not just in the richest countries.
—Larry Brilliant, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2021
But where Ice Watch generated the kind of participatory engagement for which Eliasson is known, with visitors touching the ice and moving around and through it, The Glacier Melt Series reads like a geography textbook.
—Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 27 Sep. 2024
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Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
But other forms of democracy — direct democracy (initiative and referenda), participatory democracy (as in budgeting), deliberative democracy (like citizen assemblies) and digital democracy (platforms like Pol.is and Decidim) — are growing, especially locally.
—Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
The latest surveillance technologies—digital disease detection, participatory surveillance systems, and exposure notification systems—should be available everywhere, not just in the richest countries.
—Larry Brilliant, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2021
But where Ice Watch generated the kind of participatory engagement for which Eliasson is known, with visitors touching the ice and moving around and through it, The Glacier Melt Series reads like a geography textbook.
—Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 27 Sep. 2024
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“Participatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/participatory. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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