Creative Politics Residency (October 2012)

Participants

  • Ana Lobo
  • Ana Palma
  • Filipe Cruz
  • Filipe Pais
  • Mécia Sá
  • Mónica Mendes
  • Pedro Ângelo
  • Peter Westenberg
  • Ricardo Lobo
  • Tiago Serra

Media

Hashtag: #CreativePolitics2012

Wiki: http://tinyurl.com/cpolitics2012

Project Ideas

Reclaiming Politics

Proposed by: Pedro Ângelo

Bring open distributive modes of production to the political process

References

Reclaiming Credit

Proposed by: Pedro Ângelo

  • Possible implementations
    • Create an Open Source financial institution
    • Tool for participative budgeting
    • Alternative currency awareness, like an online game with virtual goods bought and sold with Bitcoin

References

Reclaiming Data

Proposed by: Filipe Cruz

Figure out data that should be open in Portugal, search for it, figure out who to contact to ask for it, maybe create a page that automatically requests it or incentivate others to participate in requesting open data.

http://opendata-pt.blogspot.com

Carta para dados@ama.pt

References

Citizen journalism

Proposed by: Pedro Ângelo

Build an online platform for citizens to collaboratively gather datasets, check facts and do data analysis and visualization.

References

Political Manager

Proposed by: Filipe Cruz, Pedro Ângelo

An idea for an app / web game that lets you play the game of politics as your character grows older and into the system. With dynamic stats that influences your growth and situations. You have to chose your political alignment, work on your corruptability, maintain your positive image index, upkeep strategic power alliances, etc.

  • game goals
    • understand the tough career choices a politician has to make
    • grounded on reality but mostly tonge in cheek
  • brainstorming
    • character stats
    • career choices
    • story editor
    • story outcomes
    • audiovisual style
    • random encounters (political appointments, black suitcase men)
    • election simulation

References

Promessas Concretas

Proposed by: Filipe Cruz

Portal de ideias de melhorias concretas aos sistemas de governação actuais (locais ou nacionais). Login Facebook (evitar contas falsas). Sistema de proxy voting (os votos podem ser delegados a outra pessoa, relativamente a um assunto, uma categoria de assuntos ou delegação absoluta). Qualquer pessoa pode submeter uma ideia em dada categoria. As ideias podem ser alterações de lei, processos, ou construção / remodelação. O perfil dessa pessoa indica o número de delegações de voto que a pessoa representa em dada ideia/categoria/total. Quando submetidas as ideias são automaticamente abertas à discussao, discutindo durante um certo periodo de tempo sobre a ideia em si e as diversas propostas de implementação. Se a ideia for de construção / remodelação, representantes de empresas validadas podem submeter propostas de implementação para discussão aberta. Depois do periodo de discussão um moderador da categoria fecha a ideia e avança para uma proposta em concreto. Submetendo-a à votação do portal durante um certo periodo de tempo. No caso de a ideia ser referente a construção / remodelação, o processo abre para concurso. Os utilizadores podem discutir e alterar o seu voto a qualquer altura durante um certo periodo de tempo. Quando o periodo de votação encerra, se houver maioria a ideia é apresentada ao governo responsavel para implementação com um prazo de validade. No caso da falha do governo responsavel não a implementar o sistema marca a ideia como ignorada pelo governo responsavel. No caso do governo responsavel nao se poder responsabilizar devido à falta de verba, o sistema inicia um processo de crowdfunding para co-financiar o projecto. Com um deadline de atingir a meta. Quando em campanha eleitoral as ideias em crowdfunding podem ser compradas pelos candidatos com fundos de campanha.

References

Novos Partidos

Proposed by: Filipe Cruz

Instalação / performance de campanhas de angariação de assinaturas para um novo partido politico. Apresentando com o simbolo yin e yang o partido branco e o partido negro.

O partido branco advoca transparência, integridade e responsabilidade. Nos processos judiciais, financeiros e politicos.

O partido negro advoca legalização da corrupção activa. Despachamento de processos judiciais por pagamentos. Legalização de todos os crimes.

Utopian Society

Proposed by: Filipe Cruz

Political action game: define rules of your utopic society and other people try to subvert those rules.

(PA) This reminds me of Nation States http://www.nationstates.net

New Political Media

Proposed by: Filipe Cruz & Pedro Ângelo

(FC) think about how to make people engage more in politics in general and open data in particular and try to make a viral video out of it.

test with auto rap

test with songify

test lyrics

(PA) I would love to make a collective hiphop album where each track presents the views of a political concept/ideology. The idea would be to bring this information to younger people and show the the value of pluralism, tolerance and open discussion.

References

Forest Fire Data

How to bring evidence on the facts and figures around forest fire causes, consequences, and financial implications?

Find out what data is available about Forest Fires in Portugal, especially how much money is spent. Document publicly available data and write FOI request for unavailable data.

Sprint proposal to experiment the integration of a new field with governmental data to be confronted with the existing dynamic fields of news on forest fires » Play with Fire news mashup http://playwithfire.artivis.net/mashup/
This setup can be used as artistic explorations / presentations in public space.

  • Ideas
    • Search for data on the web
    • Call Guimarães firefighters and ask about what data is collected
      • Start here and move up (Coordenação, Protecção Civil, Associação Nacional de Bombeiros, Ministério da Administração Interna

References

Hacking Urban Resources

Proposed by: Ana Silva & Filipe Pais & Peter Westenberg

Spotting unused potential resources in the city, thinking how in times of personal, financial crisis they can be used to improve living conditions in the city.

Hacking Urban Resources

Politician Page NewsTweak

Proposed by: Filipe Pais & Filipe Cruz & Tiago Serra

Use NewsTweek to hack locally a page with altered info on facebook profile of a politician on a public space with presence of media.

Call on it, get people to grab screen shots, go home and watch the mayhem unfold.

References

Comparative News

Proposed by: Ricardo Lobo & Mécia Sá

The goal of this project is to help citizens understand the trends and tendencies in the political discourse that the media present to them everyday. The strategy is to compare different sources of information, like newspapers, radio and television using data visualization. The intuition behind this project is that comparing sources enable people to see the big picture, to identify what's important and what's not.

Comparative News

Github .pt legislation

Proposed by: Filipe Cruz

Upload to github the portuguese legislation in similar way to what has been done with the german. This facilitates citizens access to the laws and changes that have occured through time.

References

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