The origins of our modern democracy are around 3000 years old; they date back to the democratic polis of antiquity. During ancient Greek rule, ​​the agora and its political and administrative buildings formed the political centre of a city. Certain building typologies, forms of joint decision-making, and changing office holders, etc. became models. In ancient times, the people’s assembly room for citizens was known as the ekklesiasterion, with its striking rows of seats rising up around a central lecture area. The exhibition project dēmokratía is based on analogue photographs of the ‘time layers’ of these ancient ruins, the details of which reveal, among other things, traces of the work of enslaved people. Scaled-down 3D laser scan images – made directly and without distortion – of a well-preserved ancient ekklesiasterion ruin on Sicily in the territory of ancient Greece give rise to a smaller-sized ‘twin’ of the ancient building typology of the popular assembly. Alexandra Spiegel’s large-scale works shed light on the ancient origins of democracy and present the millennia-old idea as the foundation of our free national community.