Like a shop window – with Wenders and Derrida (amongst other dignitaries) gathered for credibility – The Berlin City Forum became a showcase for a "technocratic 'democracy ...where the people were to be guided by experts.'" (Howard Caygill, in A. Scott, The Limits of Globalisation, 42). But even to get a seat at the Forum you had to be invited. Just like the tourist and the migrant, not to mention the asylum seeker or the refugee, many of the newly freed citizens of the City were left standing in the cold.