WHAT DOES DEMOCRACY LOOK LIKE?
WHAT DOES DEMOCRACY LOOK LIKE? What would happen if next year’s financial plans were being finalised while sitting on fitness balls? Would the international cooperation look differently if George Bush and Angela Merkel were talking together on a giant swing that had to be kept constantly in balance? Would the welfare system be fairer if the negotiations were taking place from a child’s perspective whilst sitting on small children’s chairs? Bosch & Fjords new art project, Gumstrategy, is a redesign of the Danish parliament that in a humorous way poses questions as to what democracy is and what democracy looks like. At www.gumstrategy.com visitors can experience a parliament where the politicians are discussing the future of the country sitting on fitness balls or wearing polar jackets in a cold, cold freezing room. In the new parliament the politicians are challenged into breaking habits and thinking new thoughts from different perspectives. The changes start at the facade where a large
