Week Three - Infrastructure, Strategy & Presence

Questions from lecture to be answered - 

What makes your strategy possible and viable?

Consider:

- INFRASTRUCTURE



- IDENTITY & PRESENCE

Firstly, considering theme selection is yet to be determined, a specific strategy can not be explored alone.


These are hypothetical situations that our group came up with during the tutorial to answer the four specific theme suggestions to replace or enhance one specific function of parliament house - 


FLEXIBLE:


What if the house of representatives chamber was designed to flexibly adjust to differing parties who have been elected to power? Would they chose the placement of parties differently? What reasoning would they have to do it? 




- The identity and presence of the parliamentary sitting that people have become to know and adjust to could confuse the system...


- People of power could chose to collaborate with each other more...


- Modern technology could enhance the environment


- Question time could become more interactive with the aid of modern    technology


- Could flexibility mean that politicians don't have to travel all the way to Canberra and could communicate virtually...


VIRTUAL:


What if there was an uprising (anarchy) in Australia to take down the government? How could parliament control this situation virtually?


- Would the parties come together as a nation? Or would they still be gunning for their own political agenda?


- Who has the complete military control? Does the Prime Minister finalise the militaries position? What is her duty? Run and hide? 


- People effected: How would they gather information? Use of technology?


- What if people had no access to technology? Where would they go to find help? Where would they know where to be safe?


-  The virtual world of mobile/portable technology could play a huge role in both the calming of the situation, but it could also lead to further conflict...


- What identity/presence could a virtual system of parliament have? 




MOBILE:


What if parliament became more mobile, in the sense of spreading the capital to the wider nation?


- Aside from each state already having a parliament, these usually are congregated around the capital cities. How does that help the cities and towns that are too far out of reach?


- Mobile town halls? Bring back the community sense of organisation of politics and laws etc. They come visit you...


(We didn't progress any further with the mobile suggestion. Aside from the use of mobile technology, which would then lead into a virtual sense...)






DISTRIBUTED: 


What if our nations capital was distributed between different capital cities?


- Again this leads into the mobile, flexible, and even virtual themes which have already been discussed. No further discussion was made on this topic.