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Parliament and people together House to Home was the first ever public exhibition to be held in Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament. Designed by Branson Coates Architecture and curated by Scarlet Projects, the exhibition was a visually dynamic, engaging and accessible exercise in public education. House to Home was commissioned by the Hansard Society to celebrate their 60th anniversary. It aimed to educate visitors in the principles of democracy, in how our Parliament system works, and to ask them to consider how their deeper involvement could further enrich and rejuvenate our democratic society. Rather than simply state the issues - through text and images – the exhibition set out a sequence of dynamic metaphorical spaces posing a series of issues and questions through which the visitors could journey. Designed as a provocative, interactive and inclusive experience, visitors were asked to play their part and contribute their own thoughts. A series of thought-provoking installations by graphic designers Abake brought the theme of public apathy to life and demonstrated what citizens could do for themselves outside of the political process. Interactive designers Poke created an installation where visitors could vote on a topical political issue - Smoking in Public Spaces - showing how new media (in this case digital TV) could help to re-engage the public and make them feel more involved in the political process. A selection of people from all walks of life aired their views - from David Hockney to Johhny Hurst the football chant Laureate - and visitors could vote for which position they most agreed with. Graphic Design was by Why Not Associates with additional elements by Multistorey.
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