Common of Houses unveils Johnson and Burgoyne
Common of Houses, the free-to-enter design competition that aims to creatively redesign the voting system has announced a judging panel, including Michael Johnson and Patrick Burgoyne.
• Redesigning the voting forms for the current system.• Designing a new voting form for one of the alternative voting systems or your own.
• Designing how the vote is actually taken – punch card, electronic machine, ticking a box.
• Another aspect of the vote ie. a poster encouraging people to vote. Exactly how this works is up to you. It could be a dating agency questionnaire to matchmake you to a party with similar views or it could be a large jar of coloured marbles which get dropped into a slot.
For more information and to download the brief, click through to the www.commonofhouses.co.uk website. Click through to the Electoral Reform page and then "Brief".
Prizes include events tickets, magazine subscriptions and more, with the main prize decided by the designers themselves. (Each entrant is asked to submit a prize nomination. These nominations will then be put to the vote. The organisers will try to provide the winning designer with whatever is the voted prize.)
An exhibition of all the submitted designs is also planned for later in the year.
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The competition follows last year's project, which urged designers, architects and artists to design creative solutions to the MP's two home expense problem.
The competition has been launched by duo Hole In My Pocket.