This weeks tutorial allowed for exploration in groups about of the four different themes (Virtual / Flexible / Mobile / Distributed) and how they benefit an Australian Capital and its agents. Naturally, some were easier to explore than others.
In this tutorial, I felt that the tutors gave us much more direction. Questions raised were about what are the benefits of the forum? How will decisions be made? Will parliament exist as it does now? As mobile is defined as something with the capability of moving or being moved, I think this will relate to how information is store and recorded. People have a wider, and easier, access to information in a variety of formats, and so the way in which parliament will exist has to adapt to these changes.
This reminds me of a speech by ABC journalist Kevin O'Brien about 'Politics and Journalism'. He says that "in an age that desperately needs enlightened leadership, the disproportionate size of today’s public relations industry is causing an alarming decline in the quality of public discourse." In O’Brien’s view, as a result the combination of the problems on either side, there are so many issues that are not given the time and space they need, to be adequately debated. O’Brien maintains that people who are time-poor and preoccupied with their own struggles must, obviously, rely on the mainstream media to find out what’s going on. “If they’re not being well served by that part of the media they go to, either they will not trust it, end up poorly informed or worse, mislead.”
Although it is not architecturally related, it's interesting to see how the future of politics and increasing technologies are so closely related. The full speech can be found here: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/video/wallace-wurth-memorial-lecture-2011-kerry-o-brien
In this tutorial, I felt that the tutors gave us much more direction. Questions raised were about what are the benefits of the forum? How will decisions be made? Will parliament exist as it does now? As mobile is defined as something with the capability of moving or being moved, I think this will relate to how information is store and recorded. People have a wider, and easier, access to information in a variety of formats, and so the way in which parliament will exist has to adapt to these changes.
This reminds me of a speech by ABC journalist Kevin O'Brien about 'Politics and Journalism'. He says that "in an age that desperately needs enlightened leadership, the disproportionate size of today’s public relations industry is causing an alarming decline in the quality of public discourse." In O’Brien’s view, as a result the combination of the problems on either side, there are so many issues that are not given the time and space they need, to be adequately debated. O’Brien maintains that people who are time-poor and preoccupied with their own struggles must, obviously, rely on the mainstream media to find out what’s going on. “If they’re not being well served by that part of the media they go to, either they will not trust it, end up poorly informed or worse, mislead.”
Although it is not architecturally related, it's interesting to see how the future of politics and increasing technologies are so closely related. The full speech can be found here: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/video/wallace-wurth-memorial-lecture-2011-kerry-o-brien
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