Making Democracy is a toolkit designed to contribute to the development of democratic competences, such as empathy, respect for diversity, and active participation. 

The project, co-funded by CYENS (EdMedia research group, extension of the Cyprus Interaction Lab), the Cyprus University of Technology (Serious Products Lab), and Lemesos 2030: European Capital of Culture Candidate City is a research-driven design project focused on the design and making of an interactive toolkit for human rights education. It is an interdisciplinary endeavor building on expertise from the fields of design, human rights education, and making to design the toolkit, whilst it explores the co-design process as it evolves through interactive workshops.

This project represents a space where ‘making’ meets design thinking and human rights education, underscoring the value of interdisciplinary collaboration. The toolkit, as one of the main outcomes of this project, presents physical products with interactive elements and guides in the form of game rules to support young adults and their educators in facilitating learning and discussions about human rights. 

An article titled " Rights at Play, learning design for human rights education in higher education by Eleni Pashia, Eva Korae and Andri Ioannou based on pilot play sessions can be found here.

The game which is still under development will be played at the 20th European Conference in Games Based Learning in Darmstad.

Below are some photos of its development during the last two years.