Convivial Commons Congress is an artistic research installation that explores how non-human actors can be integrated into collective decision-making processes through the use of artificial intelligence. Five AI-based assistants represent the interests of different stakeholder groups.
Their positions emerge from the analysis of their own sensor data, external environmental measurements, scientific models, and publicly accessible datasets. The basis for decision-making is therefore not symbolic speech about nature, but a largely autonomous, data-driven evaluation of conditions, ecological limits, and long-term environmental dynamics.
The debates are continuously documented and condensed into key statements, which are printed onto thermal paper receipts. At the end of the process, the discussed positions are put to a vote. Visitors can act as delegates by reading the printed receipts aloud, thereby bringing the debates into the physical space.
