Activating imagination to promote epistemic justice: Speculations on an island-wide citizens’ assembly for Cyprus

This paper considers how designerly ways might contribute to securing epistemic justice in a particular, speculative, 'proto-legal' context: an island-wide citizens' assembly for Cyprus. It identifies two types of imagination (empathetic and systemic) that are crucial to the securing of epistemic justice in a citizens' assembly. It then draws on the example of the River Roding Interspecies Council, an experiment run by Moral Imaginations on behalf of the government of the United Kingdom, to suggest how designerly ways might prompt and facilitate both forms of imagination in an island-wide citizens' assembly for Cyprus.