Design towards a NEW capital and a NEW Government

THOUGHTS:

The right balance of elements between: maintaining the simpler aspects of lifestyle and embracing the ever-advancing resource efficient technology.

A modified system of politics and policy/law making → to better represent the people

The first step is to invite interest and involvement of people!

As Yasu raised in the Strategy lecture.. the challenge with ‘Flexible’ architecture is: How do you encourage people to interact with the architecture? Applied to this design challenge..

How can a new capital be designed which encourages people to get involved?

Integrate into the architecture of daily life!

But to what level should the peopel be involved? Is it a naïve whimsical idea to place our trust in the people of Australia, who don’t know politics, and possibly can’t predict the future consequences of what we think that we need now? I think it is a problem if Australians are not educated about the issues they are impacting, which is exactly where we stand currently with our: No participation for 364 days per year, VOTE OR YOU WILL BE FINED once a year approach to involving the people in the decisions made by Government.

If there was a way to invite the participation of all people in the government, integrate it into the way we live our lives, the education process would begin spontaneously and exponentially, and the decisions made as a country would begin to reflect the ideals of the people as a majority. We can start to eliminate the short-term survival strategies of political representatives, and the short term demands of the people obliging this behavior due to our indifference and lack of long-term aware education on issues.