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 - title: About the Project
-  url: about.html
+  url: about
 
-- title: Database
-  url: database.html
+- title: Documentation
+  url: documentation
 
-- title: Excavations
-  url: https://excavations.digital/
-
-- title: Research as ancestry
-  url: https://www.amacad.org/publication/governance-archaeology-research-ancestry
+- title: Publications
+  url: publications

about.md

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-The Governance Archaeology database catalogs individual political communities that developed at least one _collective governance institution_. A collective governance institution is a structure where a group of more than one person gathers to make decisions on behalf of the community.
-<br>
-<br>
-Each community has one or more _institutions_, and each institution operates through one or more _mechanisms_. Mechanisms are specific practices or rules governing _access_ to the institutions, _decision-making_, as well as _enforcement_. 
+Governance Archaeology is an approach to learning from the past to inform the politics of the future.
+
+We are co-producing a global commons of collective governance practices that can inspire institutional learning and experimentation, particularly in the face of rapid technological change and vexing global crises. Embedded in our approach is an orientation of ancestry whereby practitioners cultivate relationships of accountability and responsibility to the legacies they learn from, recognizing the harm from past patterns of exploitation. By taking seriously a wide range of historical governance practices, particularly those outside the Western canon, governance archaeology seeks to expand the options available for the design of more moral political economies.
+
+# Methodology
 
-## Methodology
 We began collecting data in the summer of 2021, and we have so far coded 67 discrete communities, over 300 institutions, and about 100 institutional mechanisms. We began looking into existing databases of documented groups around the world, such as the [Ethnographic Atlas](https://d-place.org/contributions/EA) and the [Human Relations Area Files](https://hraf.yale.edu/), and proceeded to identify communities that fit our criteria. 
-<br><br>
+
 While much of the more readily available data comes from the West, we have deliberately sought to cover less well-known, and often less well-documented, non-Western cases. The reasons, as we explain in a recent [Daedalus](https://www.amacad.org/publication/governance-archaeology-research-ancestry) piece, are empirical and ethical: as globalization and advances in digitization enable us to learn more about the  diversity of political arrangements around the world and throughout history, the usual Western-centered view seems increasingly myopic. Moreover, if the goal of this project is contributing to retrofit modern democracy with an eye to participation and inclusion, then we need to design for a “pluriverse,” a space in which many social worlds can fit.  
 
-## Team
+# Team
+
 - [Federica Carugati (PI)](https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/federica-carugati)
 - [Nathan Schneider (PI)](https://nathanschneider.info/)
 - [Riley Wong](https://www.rileynwong.com/)
 - [Júlia Martins Rodrigues](https://www.linkedin.com/in/j%C3%BAlia-martins-rodrigues-phd-963435144/)
-- [Darija Medić](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/graduate-students/intermedia-art-writing-and-performance/darija-medic)
 
+# Participating Organizations
 
-## Participating Organizations
 - [King’s College London](https://www.kcl.ac.uk/)
 - [MEDLab, University of Colorado Boulder](https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/)
 - [Metagov](https://metagov.org/)
 
-### Funders
+# Funders
+
 - [Ethereum Foundation](https://ethereum.foundation/)
 - [King’s College London](https://www.kcl.ac.uk/)

documentation.md

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+title: Documentation
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 ## [Governance Archaeology Database: v1.2](https://airtable.com/appvYlkHheYBuvDdR/shrPD4OrKdIMAfgwP)

index.md

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 Explore collective governance practices across culture, history, and geography. 
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publications.md

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+title: Publications
+---
+
+# Governance Archaeology: Research as Ancestry (2023)
+
+**Federica Carugati and Nathan Schneider, "[Governance Archaeology: Research as Ancestry](https://www.amacad.org/publication/governance-archaeology-research-ancestry)," _Daedalus_ (Winter 2023)**
+
+> This essay presents the idea of governance archaeology, an approach to learning from the past to inform the politics of the future. By reporting on a prototype historical database, we outline a strategy for co-producing a global commons of collective governance practices that can inspire institutional learning and experimentation, particularly in the face of rapid technological change and vexing global crises. Embedded in our approach is an orientation of ancestry whereby practitioners cultivate relationships of accountability and responsibility to the legacies they learn from, recognizing the harm from past patterns of exploitation. By taking seriously a wide range of historical governance practices, particularly those outside the Western canon, governance archaeology seeks to expand the options available for the design of more moral political economies.
+
+# Excavations: Governance Archaeology for the Future of the Internet (2021)
+
+**[Excavations.digital](https://excavations.digital/about/)**
+
+> Developed in the framework of the 16th Internet Governance Forum, _Excavations: Governance Archaeology for the Future of the Internet_ is an online research project and interdisciplinary art exhibition exploring historical governance practices to inform the future of digital policy. The project aims to facilitate a conversation beyond familiar models to imagine new, more inclusive Internet governance policies, actively centering actors coming from underrepresented fields of arts and humanities. The exhibition is a result of a cohort process consisting of international artists across continents.
+> 
+> By gathering a range of voices from internationally renowned artists, the exhibition offers perspectives from diverse cultural contexts, bringing perspectives such as intersectionality, indigenous practices, and media archaeology into the conversation. The artists and researchers participating include: Barabar (Bhawna Parmar and Rubina Singh), Mateus Guzzo, Caroline Sinders, Şerife Wong, Eryk Salvaggio, Ioanna Thymianidis, Mara Karayanni, Mallory Knodel, Jenny Liu Zhang, Cat Chang, Isaac Gilles, Antonia Hernández, Lotte Louise de Jong and Amelia Winger-Bearskin.
+> 
+> Curated by Federica Carugati of (King’s College London), and Darija Medic and Nathan Schneider (Media Enterprise Design Lab, University of Colorado Boulder), with support from the Eutopia Foundation and the British Academy, in collaboration with DiploFoundation.