yourowndemocracy is a concept project that proposes a real-time voter sentiment feedback-loop platform merging social networking, direct political engagement, and the design of electronic market exchanges to create a modern online platform for participatory democracy.
2008 Buckminster Fuller Institute Challenge Submission
Original GONGBLOG post about YOD with comments
Lunch at Marfa Table, Marfa, TX
Willow loitering on my white chair
A gift of a tin Fiat Cinquecento from my Facebook friend, Italy-based designer Derek Stewart
Cousins Lulu Clementine and Willow Lin in Marfa, TX
Small Press Exhibit at the Marfa Bookstore in Marfa, TX
Little Bear Show on iPod Nano flying back from Orlando
Stuffed giraffe and Barbie doll at home. Photo by Willow
Sister-in-law Shirley and Lulu at Judd Compound, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
Train Park, Santa Fe
Jun 1, 2010 at 08:35AM Post a Comment "Our primary electoral act, voting, is rather like using a public toilet: we wait in line with a crowd in order to close ourselves up in a small compartment where we can relieve ourselves in solitude and in privacy or our burden, pull a lever, and then, yielding to the next in line, go silently home."
-Benjamin Barber
Reader Comments