“All forms of consensus are by necessity based on acts of exclusion”.
- Chantal Mouffe

Skiljelinjer, Swedish for "lines of demarcation", is a research project exploring agonism within collaborative architectural and design processes, i.e. processes driven by controversy instead of consensus.

The research is done through a custom design tool developed by us. The tool lets participants co-create and vote on proposals in augmented reality, situating each virtual proposal in the physical environment it is designed for. The proposals are filtered depending on their ratio between upvotes and downvotes, which drive the project's decision making process following a range between consensus, conflict and dissensus.

Skiljelinjer proposes a future where all users of urban space are active in the processes behind it. In the long run this opens up for cities and built environments sketched, planned and built by all inhabitants of these very spaces.