Week Five - Week Six: Putting the pieces together!

THE BIG IDEA:


What if? we could create all the capabilities of having a parliament house in each and every city, with out having to build anything? 


What if? we could create a way in which anyone could talk directly to parliament within a completely virtual world? Designing infrastructure completely within a virtual world?


What if? we could use a virtual system of government to define a capital as a place to connect to, to educate, to learn, to develop?


What if? the architecture of this is portrayed using virtual entities? Symbolic architecture through projections of light, as if it to appear real?





DIRECT DEMOCRACY: 


This form of direct democracy hears the voices of all people, no matter what social standing they belong too. The idea is to bring together those whose opinions have been overshadowed or unheard of. For too long the lower strata of society are often lost and ignored. Development programs and projects are often implemented with out an opinion nor say of the future by the people it effects the most.


An alternate system of voice, advocacy, mobilisation and participation for the excluded majority is what our nations capital lacks. A sort of intra-community that not only brings people thoughts, ideas, struggles and the likes together, but brings the people of power and privilege down to a common level, who will strive for common goals.


CONNECTING THE VOICES OF THE NATION DIRECT TO PARLIAMENT:

This diagram represents the symbolic nature of the Canberra city layout, specifically parliament, with its connecting roads to the city. It simply depicts reaching out through this main roads, connecting Canberra to the people of Australia.