Short presentation

Ingrid Helene Brandt is a postdoctoral researcher in political theory at the Department of Political Science, where she works on citizen involvement and co-creation in large-scale land use transformations as part of the Democratic Engagement in Local Tripartite (DELTAR) project in collaboration with Gate21. Her research explores how citizens can participate in the Green Tripartite Agreement, turning top-down planning into shared acts of co-creation through a prototype model for democratic land-use transformation. Brandt’s work combines democratic theory, new materialism, and affect theory to investigate how both human and more-than-human actors can be represented in future landscape transformations. She has previously written her PhD dissertation Lingering Democracy: Stories of Democratic Participation Amid Climate and Ecological Crisis, an ethnographic study of the Danish Climate Citizens’ Assembly that argues for a more pluralistic and affective understanding of democracy in times of ecological crisis.