"This is a bench which registers the daily patterns of life we don’t see - that keeps a tally of its usage and remembers everyone who takes the time in a busy city, to sit on it and watch the world go by. Built into each of the bench’s contoured seat buckets is a simple analogue tally counter of the sort used by men in beards to count passing cars in the streets, and by air hostesses to tally passengers on a budget airline. Each time someone sits on one of the seats their weight triggers the tally counter to register their vote. But what are they voting for? It is an unconscious vote of preference - the preference for one view over another, the preference of having the sun warm one’s face rather than one’s back or the preference for the laughter of running water to the churning of idling engines. This is a bench to remember, register and record - quite literally a ‘benchmark’ against which to calibrate the passing of hours, days, weeks, months and years."
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This site is for gathering proposals for a 'democracy bench', and for an online jury of 180 people to vote on it. The winning proposal gets £1800 to make it happen.
Very cool.Ill have a look later. Fast cash loans today...Nice post.Ill check it out later today. I take photos of myself. Come...check out the full proposal for Art in the Parks ideas. The bench in the...Valid point about 1/5 of a seat each. Lets hope we can make these large...Halfadrop: you did see the full PDF didn't you?
Very cool indeed!
Wish I could see more than the provided...Hello genkitm and destrin. glad you like my idea. i created this design...This flexible design creates a space to encourage democracy and much more....
Wish I could see more than the provided...Hello genkitm and destrin. glad you like my idea. i created this design...This flexible design creates a space to encourage democracy and much more....
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This is an awesome idea, especially if this can be positioned as the brief suggests with the two seats providing a contrasting view.
I think this is great and doesn't seem as earnest as some of the other submissions. Of course democracy is serious - but the evening we went to was also fun and I'd like the bench to reflect this.
I too think this is an interesting and fun idea but have concerns over it's durability. How easy would it be to mend should the mechanism break?