Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Panel Progression
The following is the development of our idea and panels.
These first three panels show our investigation into distribution, and how we came to the theory of the distribution of power. It came about by trying to figure out how to distribute resources and services among other things, when we realized the easiest way to do that is to distribute the power.
The panel to the bottom right outlines the current parliament system and the issues that we found with the current system, being:
1. Representatives and people assigned to current positions are decided by the prime minister and not
the choice of the public.
2. Pub is not voiced and compromise wants due to limited options.
3. Too much traveling expenses and time for all to reach an agreement.
The panel to the left contains an hourglass and pyramid diagram which we found to explain our thoughts on how the government should work and how it actually works.
The top of the hourglass represents the masses of people voting for a prime minister, the prime minister then acts upon the wishes of the people and appoints a cabinet to action and process the requests of the prime minister.
The tip of the pyramid represents the prime minister followed by the the cabinet which he/she elects and then at the bottom are the people who are told what they can and can't do without much say in the matter.
The panel on the top left and right describes our process of explaining how our policy selection will work with some examples.
On the left are categories and underneath them are possible policies each team could try and promote.
On the right is a wheel which will explain how the state parliament will be formed by selecting on team from each category.
On the righ is general information about setting out an inclusions into our panel, as we start to think about our A4 statement.
We realize that what we are trying to do is slightly revolutionize and take back power. When we realized this we thought of the events occurring in Libya at current. However we thought, that this may be a bit too serious and because of the boring topical information presenting in our panels, we should make it more comedic to try and keep viewers interested.
We came up with the idea to base our A4 statement on star wars as it is also about taking back power. And so our A4 statement reads as follows.
These first three panels show our investigation into distribution, and how we came to the theory of the distribution of power. It came about by trying to figure out how to distribute resources and services among other things, when we realized the easiest way to do that is to distribute the power.
The panel to the bottom right outlines the current parliament system and the issues that we found with the current system, being:
1. Representatives and people assigned to current positions are decided by the prime minister and not
the choice of the public.
2. Pub is not voiced and compromise wants due to limited options.3. Too much traveling expenses and time for all to reach an agreement.
The panel to the left contains an hourglass and pyramid diagram which we found to explain our thoughts on how the government should work and how it actually works.
The top of the hourglass represents the masses of people voting for a prime minister, the prime minister then acts upon the wishes of the people and appoints a cabinet to action and process the requests of the prime minister.
The tip of the pyramid represents the prime minister followed by the the cabinet which he/she elects and then at the bottom are the people who are told what they can and can't do without much say in the matter.
The panel on the top left and right describes our process of explaining how our policy selection will work with some examples.
On the left are categories and underneath them are possible policies each team could try and promote.
On the right is a wheel which will explain how the state parliament will be formed by selecting on team from each category.
On the righ is general information about setting out an inclusions into our panel, as we start to think about our A4 statement.
We realize that what we are trying to do is slightly revolutionize and take back power. When we realized this we thought of the events occurring in Libya at current. However we thought, that this may be a bit too serious and because of the boring topical information presenting in our panels, we should make it more comedic to try and keep viewers interested.
We came up with the idea to base our A4 statement on star wars as it is also about taking back power. And so our A4 statement reads as follows.
In a country very very near (Australia)….
At a time when people believed their voices were being heard, the mask of democracy was unveiled to expose the hideous face of dictatorship! Civil unrest brewed. In a period of political anarchy under the control of Julia Gillard and her minions, (cabinet ministers) they mislead the people into a barrage of carbon taxes and flood levies.
In an envisioned democratic empire, the Australian parliament represents the distributed views of the nation, ultimately making decisions chosen by the people for the people. However, the people have been silenced by the lack of political parties and their restricted policies. The prime minister has seized command over parliament house; creating an army of minions and deploying them around the nation to enforce her evil bidding.
Meanwhile, in an undisclosed location ( Abram Vun’s closet) four rebel leaders have grown tired and weary of the governments deaf ears. As a result of the alarming chain of events, the rebel leaders united as one to establish the Freedom Fighters, and now plot to destroy Julia’s evil reign. Through underground campaigning, the force of the Freedom Fighters grew by the millions to regain power and overthrow the current government. Recruiting intelligence and experts in all fields, Operation People Strike Back (PSB) was formed. Commencing operation PSB, nationwide protests and strikes were initiated to bring the entire government system to a halt. To settle the conflict, Julia Gillard and her minions were forced to relinquish their power and flee to Tasmania.
With the peoples’ support, the government was overthrown, allowing the Founders of the Freedom Fighters to take charge and return power to people through the new governing system. To create an equal voice for the people; the nations’ power, which was once in Julia Gillard’s hands, was equally distributed to each state. From here, several divisions of experts within a department (E.g. infrastructure/ health/ environment) create policies in the best interest of each state. These divisions of experts vie for the peoples’ vote. The elected divisions of experts within each department now form the new state governing body. This new governing structure allows people to voice their views and opinions by selecting individual policies without compromise.
With the evil tyrant gone and the Freedom Fighters disbanded into society, a true form of democracy has been left behind. Generations on, the legacy created by the Freedom Fighters still provides a fair and just governing system to the people….
Sunday, 28 August 2011
Week 5 Task
This last task was a real turn around point for our group, we again we didn't really focus on the task at hand, but instead tried to really understand what the assignment required and basically tried to focus on the first task we would need to accomplish to be able to work on the rest of the assignment. The problem. I guess our main issue with developing a problem is that a lot of things we had heard from other groups were quite far fetched like alien invasions etc, and we didn't really feel that was appropriate, we wanted to adapt something more real life and plausible.
We explored sections of distribution and then came across the distribution of power in Australia. We then realized that power in this democracy is restricted to one party. We can only choose one party which has the most policies we agree with and then we are stuck with the rest, and the acting party is free to change their minds and go against the public with little refute.
Our main idea was to cut the head off, (the prime minister) and split the competing parties up not by a party as a whole but by section. e.g. transport, environment etc etc. Then we would have different environmental teams competing against each other voicing their main policies on each topic.
The base idea was there, but our tutor pointed out many flaws in our idea, and so we went back to polish them up and re-present our tutor with our more refined theories.
Our new idea was heavily based on our old one, except we took it a step further, instead of having parties we changed it to panels of experts competing for their best solution within their field, to make this possible, each section (e.g. transport, environment) are give a set budget on which they must comply and provide future policies and changes. They then voice these policies to the public. The public can then choose the policies from each field to elect a parliament which is catered to each particular state. (we dissolved national parliament) The winner from each division (e.g. transport, environment) then becomes a member of state parliament. The members of each team then elect a team representative to voice their ideas and opinions. The parliament leaders of each state then elect a state representative to represent their state (much like the position of Anna Bligh currently has) the state representatives from each state then elects a national representative to act as a figurehead for the nation (please note that representatives do not have any higher power than their original team members) This also allows national problems to be able to be discussed by their particular field experts, and reduces the need for mass travel on a daily basis. It also prevents higher popularity states from taking control and governing the whole country and each state can do what is in its own best interest.
The diagram below shows our brainstorming and coming up with our base idea.
We explored sections of distribution and then came across the distribution of power in Australia. We then realized that power in this democracy is restricted to one party. We can only choose one party which has the most policies we agree with and then we are stuck with the rest, and the acting party is free to change their minds and go against the public with little refute.
Our main idea was to cut the head off, (the prime minister) and split the competing parties up not by a party as a whole but by section. e.g. transport, environment etc etc. Then we would have different environmental teams competing against each other voicing their main policies on each topic.
The base idea was there, but our tutor pointed out many flaws in our idea, and so we went back to polish them up and re-present our tutor with our more refined theories.
Our new idea was heavily based on our old one, except we took it a step further, instead of having parties we changed it to panels of experts competing for their best solution within their field, to make this possible, each section (e.g. transport, environment) are give a set budget on which they must comply and provide future policies and changes. They then voice these policies to the public. The public can then choose the policies from each field to elect a parliament which is catered to each particular state. (we dissolved national parliament) The winner from each division (e.g. transport, environment) then becomes a member of state parliament. The members of each team then elect a team representative to voice their ideas and opinions. The parliament leaders of each state then elect a state representative to represent their state (much like the position of Anna Bligh currently has) the state representatives from each state then elects a national representative to act as a figurehead for the nation (please note that representatives do not have any higher power than their original team members) This also allows national problems to be able to be discussed by their particular field experts, and reduces the need for mass travel on a daily basis. It also prevents higher popularity states from taking control and governing the whole country and each state can do what is in its own best interest.
The diagram below shows our brainstorming and coming up with our base idea.
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Week 4 Task
I don't think there really was a week 4 task? We basically just tried to get our head around the purpose of the assignment, and where we wanted to go with it due to it being the brief for our next assignment. We reaffirmed with our tutor that including government services as a part of parliament was fine as most of our ideas stem from this.
Sunday, 21 August 2011
Week 3 Task
The week 3 task required us to come up with a short narrative in relation to the specific topic and parliament. This was a somewhat confusing task, as most of the people we talked to, linked parliament in just because they had to, and it had no real reason for being in the story. (e.g. problem: the aging population is growing more segregated and isolated --> solution: creating more community areas for the aging population to go and meet other people and re-associate with the community --> link to parliament: to create these areas we would need the go ahead with parliament.
Since we were not really content with a similar type of story, we assumed that parliament includes all forms of government and government services. The story my group and I derived also has a few variations as I will describe.
Problem: Because of the urban sprawl of Australian capital cities, the growing population has been push further and further out, making it difficult for many residents to come into contact with many general government services either due to lack of transport infrastructure or general distance of services.
Solution: Have the government buy up small parcels of land 1000-3000m2 in communities with poor infrastructure or a great distance away from services. Services can then set up temporary services depots on the blocks of land for different days of the week. (e.g. using like a transformable camper-van office, similar to the blood bank bus) This will provide residents with essential government services.
Future outlook: Other services such as medical specialists or building services etc can rent out these blocks for a few days producing financial return to the government while also allowing businesses to test new area markets and expand their growth potential.
Overall this is what we ended up with for our week 3 task
Since we were not really content with a similar type of story, we assumed that parliament includes all forms of government and government services. The story my group and I derived also has a few variations as I will describe.
Problem: Because of the urban sprawl of Australian capital cities, the growing population has been push further and further out, making it difficult for many residents to come into contact with many general government services either due to lack of transport infrastructure or general distance of services.
Solution: Have the government buy up small parcels of land 1000-3000m2 in communities with poor infrastructure or a great distance away from services. Services can then set up temporary services depots on the blocks of land for different days of the week. (e.g. using like a transformable camper-van office, similar to the blood bank bus) This will provide residents with essential government services.
Future outlook: Other services such as medical specialists or building services etc can rent out these blocks for a few days producing financial return to the government while also allowing businesses to test new area markets and expand their growth potential.
Overall this is what we ended up with for our week 3 task
Friday, 12 August 2011
Week 2 Task
I guess I was quite surprised how closely each of the topics were related; at the end we had a lot of trouble identifying which ideas should fit into each group as the same idea could be classified under all topics.
So far, I understand the weekly tasks, however I am finding it difficult seeing how this quite fits in with parliament and where we are supposed to be headed. Every idea I have is more closely related to government services which is completely different from parliament, and the advice I have received from tutors, appears to be quite distant from the topic of parliament. I am hoping that as the next couple of tasks are executed, everything becomes a little more clear.
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