Domesticated Democracies by Matt Rooney

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A.PROJECT OVERVIEW

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DOMESTICATED PROJECT SUMMARY

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how personal data from the Internet of Things (IoT) could be used to inform decision making on a national and local scale of governance. By suggesting the introduction of a new parliamentary chamber, the House of Things (HoT), the project critically examines the means in which big data could guide lawmakers whilst unlocking new mediums of citizen participation.

Domesticated Democracies seeks to explore

Sited within local politics, the project speculates that the town of Didcot, Oxfordshire has been selected to trial the potential use of residents’ data to inform neighbourhood planning strategies. As real time consumption and use patterns of the town are linked to decision making, what consequences will emerge for architecture and moreover what new behaviours might emerge amongst citizens wishing to manipulate such a system? Research questions: 1. What role can big data play in informing national decision making and expanding citizen participation? 2. What becomes of architecture and the built environment when local decisions are informed by real-time behaviour and consumption? 3. What new behaviours might emerge in a population when personal lifestyle choices inform a citizens’ voting preferences?

fig.A.1 ‘The most normal town in England’; Didcot, Oxfordshire displays statistical alignment to national medians across England.

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B.DATA DEMOCRACY

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THE QUANTIFIED SELF

ACTIVE DATA

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A QUANTIFIED LIFE DATA DEMOCRACY Imagine a world whereby the very devices that streamline our daily life have come to know the ins and outs of our most intimate self: our daily rituals, patterns, lifestyle choices and personal quirks. As predictions make clear this world is fast approaching in the dawn of the Internet of Things (IoT) network. IoT suggests the next generation of the internet, one that exists everywhere, ingrained into our homes and everyday objects. At the point at which every aspect of our lives produce some form of data trail, a fully quantifiable self becomes a real possibility. This kind of behavioural profile could be used by systems to make personal predictions based on tendencies and consumption patterns. This suggests means to designate agency to a machine to make decisions on our behalf, whether that is in order to streamline everyday life or to aid large scale collective decision making.

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fig.B.1 IBM Personality Prediction; OCEAN personality profile based on predictions made from an individualâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social media content. fig.B.2 The Quanitifiable Self; Data Points network for passive and active sources.

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C. THE NATIONAL

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MONARCHY MONARCHY CAN DISSOLVE CAN DISSOLVE

ELIZABETH ALEXANDRA MARY WINDSOR II

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Data democracy becomes a real possibility in the

age of big data and IoT. It is speculated that the evolution of the network could reach the point whereby behavioural data feeds into real time government decision making. Assisted by personalised software agents the raw data produced by the IoT network could be interpreted within the constraints of individual preferences and used as a means to vote on behalf of the user. In simple terms a live referendum of opinions would be available for governments to guide lawmaking. The collective intelligence unlocked by such a system could encourage politicians to take more rationalised decisions based on the quantifiable data emerging from citizens as opposed to often vague assumptions on the will of the people. The House of Things is a suggested parliamentary body that could sit alongside the Lords and Commons as part of a tricameral system. This digital house would be responsible for interpreting and safeguarding the personal data of citizens and feeding the sentiments of the nation into the halls of governance.

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Tricameral Structure The House of Things inter-parliamentary structure and relationships.

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The collective intelligence unlocked by such a

system could guide governments to take more rationalised decisions based on quantifiable data as opposed to more vague assumptions on the will of the people and the views of constituents. At a citizen level, users would create a voting avatar to represent them in the house of Things. This would then be fine tuned with your own political preferences, social media feeds, news consumption and reading patterns and then linked to data produced by the IoT home. New laws could be suggested to the commons and lords based sentiment analysis much in the same way that online petitions get to be recommended for debate in parliament if popular enough.

fig.C.2 Bill Progression Inputs from the H.o.T network fig.C.3 H.o.T Interactions from user scale to national framework

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C. THE NATIONAL

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DOM’S CABINET GOVERNMENT INTERFACES A suggestion of the interface of the House of

Things with the existing spaces of power can be found in the thinking of the prime minister’s chief advisor, Dominic Cummings. As Cummings proposes, government spaces should take more from the control centres of NASA and power station grids in order to utilise space as an active tool to inform decision making. These spaces, termed ‘Seeing Spaces’ allow complex data to be understood spatially - in essence the room become a tool to inform better decision making. The Cabinet Room of Number 10 represents a space where decisions affecting millions of lives are made on a daily basis. As some from inside government report cabinet meetings tend to be vague with unclear aims, assumptions being made without explicit evidence and zero use of technology, advanced tools or quantitative data.

The Seeing Room, Downing Street

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C. THE NATIONAL

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MODERATE (SOCIALLY LIBERAL)

ARROGANT [AGGRESSIVE FOREIGN POLICY}

CAUTIOUS {TRADITIONAL CONSERVATISM}

CONFIDENT {CAPITALIST INDIVIDUALISM}

IMPULSIVE {FISCALLY RECKLESS}

CARELESS [RADICAL POPULISM}

SMART VOTING TOASTER USER INTERFACE - APPLIANCE LEVEL If the devices we use understand the niche

set of views we hold then why should they not vote on our behalf? The Smart Voting Toaster would burn the result of a parliamentary decision into a slice of bread as an edible reminder of the decisions being made on behalf of a citizen. Simultaneously this would make crude assumptions on its users political tendencies based on the level to which they enjoy their toast.

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D. THE LOCAL

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1. Kynaston Road

2. Hagbourne Road

NORMAL TOWN DIDCOT OXFORDSHIRE “You can look at every aspect of British life and

it’s there somewhere within Didcot”

Statistically the most normal place in England, Didcot represents the ideal control site for researchers and decision makers to better understand a ‘normal’ life experience. In terms of opinions, demographics and lifestyles Didcot show almost parity to national medians with a number of suburban roads representing the closest fit. As such any test performed here will likely be applicable to the wider nation.

3. Wessex Road 3. 4.

2. 1. fig.D.1 The most normal roads in England; Statistically the closest match to national medians occurred on 4 roads in Didcot.

4. High Street

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D. THE LOCAL

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Traffic Concerns

LOCAL POLITICS DIDCOT - OXFORDSHIRE

Environmental Concerns

Public Service Concerns

Reading the headlines of the local paper it’s possible to see how politics plays out very differently on a small scale. Represented here are the numerous conflicts that emerge in didcot over threats, concerns and impacts of changes to the built environment. From this basic sentiment analysis it is possible to identify various factions that exist in the town: these include the NIMBY -opposed to all developments, the environmentalist and green belt protector looking to save the surrounding countryside, the parking and traffic warriors concerned with infrastructure matters and a small minority of pro-change investment groups welcome to developments.

Local Threats Headlines from local Didcot papers: the Oxfordshire Guardian, The Herald & Oxford Mail.

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Residents’ Fight

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D. THE LOCAL

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Didcot Power Station Site; Potential for development

North Didcot Development; Taylor Wimpey Homes

Ladygrove Park Bloor Homes

Key Sites: fig.D.2

Valley Park; Taylor Wimpey

Didcot Power Station; n/a

- Garden Town Expansion - Original Didcot Boundary

Ladygrove Estate; Bloor Homes

DIDCOT GARDEN TOWN EXPANSION & CONFLICT The fears of these various groups have come to a head over Didcot’s proposed garden town masterplan which is set to transform the rural settlement over the next 20 years. The masterplan doubles Didcot’s population and area and expands its boundaries into surrounding Greenfield sites with the construction of 15,000 homes across 10 major sites.

North East Didcot; Taylor Wimpey

fig.D.2 Garden town Didcot: the key sites; 10 Key sites shared by a number of developers and landowners. Taylor Wimpey Homes making up the largest portion.

Valley Park & Great Western Park; Taylor Wimpey Homes

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Didcot CDB; Opportunity Sites

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The suburbs currently under construction are representative of the top down decisions made by stakeholders and local government, as such the default has been to implement generic suburban neighbourhoods perceived to be acceptable and appealing to tastes of the local residents. Didcot’s normality is thus assumed and replicated on mass by the house builders, Taylor Wimpey responsible for the largest share of the masterplan.

SUBURBAN NORMALITY TAYLOR WIMPEY HOMES

As comments from the public consultation represent, residents found they were locked out of the decision making processes with regard to the future appearance of their town. The proposals presented were largely already all approved by local planners and thus the consultation and gathering of views was merely a tick boxing exercise.

THE MONKFORD fig.5.3: Taylor Wimpey Homes; A selection of Taylor Wimpey typologies planned for the Didcot suburbs. fig.D.4: Monkford - Taylor Wimpey; A typical 3 bed 4 person family home. fig.D.5: Comments; Consultation feedback expressing frustration at decision making processes

“I turned up to a meeting but nothing I said has been listened to, so I’m not going to bother again. There’s no point”

“I would like to see more detail about community involvement”

“We need more elected Didcot representatives making the decisions”

“It feels as if we are being thrown scraps (delivering peripheral projects) rather than influencing the big picture”

“I would like to see a Didcot Development Council, independent of developer pressure”

- anonymous responder

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E. CONSULTATION

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THE CIVIC HALL DIDCOT Didcotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Civic hall, typically the host for consultations becomes the design focus of this project as it is selected by the House of Things to becomes the site for a new medium of public participation using residentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s data.

fig.E.1: The Consultation; The town meeting hall, the site of all previous consultations.

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E. SEEING ROOM

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THE SEEING ROOM PUBLIC INTERFACE The house of Things initiative takes from the grievances surrounding the Garden Town and suggests a new medium of participatory consultation based upon the very data produced by residents. In theory tying the data patterns and lifestyles of the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population to planning decisions would be able to form neighbourhood plans more in tune to the needs and desires of Didcoters. Installed within the civic hall is the public interface of the neighbourhood plan- the Seeing Space - where new proposals are displayed within the Didcot model village. It is here that residents come to see the consequences of their collective actions upon the built environment. The physical model is a perpetually changing reflection of the consumption and use of the town by its residents. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s physicality enables an accessible discussion to be had about the direction of the masterplan and arena style seating encourages discussion and co-operation amongst the towns people

H.O.T SEEING ROOM

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E. SEEING ROOM

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THE DATA SAFE MODULAR EDGE INFRASTRUCTURE As part of the initiative, the test requires a House of Things data module to be installed within the grounds of the Civic hall to enable edge processing closer to the actions producing the data and thus reducing the latency of the system and dependency of decentralised cloud servers.

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E. SEEING ROOM

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SPACES OF DECISION MAKING PUBLIC INTERFACE The spaces in which decisions are taken in the UK are notoriously archaic and arguably the spatial arrangements and qualities of these environments feed into the nature of the politics enacted within them. The Victorian grandeur and colonial extravagance of the chambers of commons and lords undoubtedly perpetuate the hostility and cultural nostalgia that has been witnessed in recent British politics.

House of Commons National

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The House of Things initiative offers a chance to renew the brand of British democracy. The nation-wide framework of the H.o.T fit out suggests a means to quickly adapt existing spaces of democracy to create temporary spaces of discussion and cooperation in a manner more fitting to the 21st century society we live within.

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THE SEEING ROOM MODEL VILLAGE The physical model is a perpetually changing reflection of the consumption and use of the town by its residents. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s physicality enables an accessible discussion to be had about the direction of the masterplan and arena style seating encourages discussion and co-operation amongst the towns people. Didcot model village; model-making in progress

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F. DATA VOTE

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THE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN DATA VOTE TRIAL But really an IoT parliament could suggest a more intelligent system that looks to passive consumption patterns and behaviour and not merely desired outcomes - in essence this would provide residents with what their lifestyle suggests they need as opposed to what they might explicitly want. In theory tying the data patterns and lifestyles of the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population to planning decisions would be able to form neighbourhood plans more in tune to the needs and desires of Didcoters. fig.F.1 The news breaks; What behaviours will emerge in Didcot when data influences the built environment?

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F. DATA VOTE

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Taylor Wimpey Homes

H.O.T PARTNERSHIP DATA VOTE TRIAL The test represents a partnership between the house of things, Oxfordshire County Council and the house builder Taylor Wimpey. For an initial 12 week consultation period predictions for the outcomes for the new suburbs are made using the voting preferences of residents.

RESIDENTS OF DIDCOT

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fig.F.2 The Partnership Local stakeholder mediation by the H.o.T. fig.F.3 IoT Neighbourhood Planning Adaptation of existing neighbourhood planning procedures to involve data voting principles.

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DATA VOTE: LIFESTYLE INPUTS

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DESIGNATION OF NEIGHBOURHOOD AREA

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‘Try the Taste of Didcot’

‘Take them out at Dawn’

‘Don’t Use the Regular Side’

‘Sign the Petition’

‘If you buy it, they will build it’

The H.o.T. observes growing obesity as a result of a surging popularity for fast food outlets in Didcot.

Traffic crusaders have been seen taking wheelbarrows full of smart phones through the countryside in order to create phantom traffic jams on Google Maps.

Waste bags piles up in the home of an environmentally minded resident following suggestions to boycott the regular side of their smart bin.

A Clickfarm installed within the home of a Didcot Nimby. Each phone amplifies the voice of the individual to push for greater demands

Concerned residents bulk-buy alcoholic beverages to demand improved pub provision.

ACTION

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F. DATA VOTE

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ROAD CAMPAIGNER

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Fitness Network,

Highway Infrastructure, Ladygrove Park

The Fortified Green Belt, North-East Didcot Development

Hyper-Dense Suburb, Didcot Power Station Site

Defunct.

The H.o.T. observes growing obesity as a result of a surging popularity for fast food outlets in Didcot.

Traffic crusaders have been seen taking wheelbarrows full of smart phones through the countryside in order to create

Waste bags piles up in the home of an environmentally minded resident following suggestions to boycott the regular side of

A Clickfarm installed within the home of a Didcot Nimby. Each phone amplifies the voice of the individual to push for greater demands

The experiment is called off after scenes of chaos in the supermarkets of Didcot

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A. INBETWEENER

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A. PUBLIC HEALTH THE INBETWEENERS The House of Things test begins in earnest with the system attempting to address public health through the new neighbourhood proposals. Based upon purchasing data of residents, the house observes an increase in the consumption of fast food due to the opening of several new takeaways. The resulting effect is seen to be greater obesity levels in the town. The Inbetweeners are an identifiable group in Didcot defined by an individual’s ambivalence towards decision making. This group of residents may be affected by local planning decisions but will be either accepting or unaware of the changes. They find themselves caught between the battles of the most vocal town stakeholders and unlike more involved groups take little or no action to manipulate the outcome of proposals. fig.A.1 {ACTION}: ‘Try the Taste of Didcot’; The H.o.T. observes growing obesity as a result of a surging popularity for fast food outlets in Didcot.

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fig.A.2 {RESPONSE}: Fitness Suburbs; The H.o.T. suggests residents require more incentives to exercise woven into the masterplan of the Great Western Park.

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B. THE TRAFFIC HACK ROAD CAMPAIGNER

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Members of R.O.A.D. would leave their phones with a volunteer road crusader who would take them on a route around the roads they believed required additional investment. Doing so triggered a response from the H.o.T. believing these routes to be experiencing unusually high congestion and therefore worthy of improvements.

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Sick of decades of over congestion and poorly maintained roads a group of motorists based in Didcot started to perform a new ritual during the consultation period for the garden town. The group calling themselves the Radical Organisation for Action in Didcot (R.O.A.D) set about manipulating traffic data sets by faking traffic jams on Google Maps each morning.

fig.5.1 {ACTION}: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Take them out at Dawnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;; Traffic crusaders have been seen taking wheelbarrows full of smart phones through the countryside in order to create phantom traffic jams on Google Maps.

Ladygrove East Site Boundary

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fig.B.2 {RESPONSE}: The Bypass; Ladygrove, Didcot Residents look on at the model in horror as the A4130 to the north of town is given a raised flyover expansion.

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C. SAVE THE FIELDS CAMPAIGN ENVIRONMENTALIST Local eco-warriors took it upon themselves to put an emphasis on environmental protection within the neighbourhood plans for the garden town. Outraged at the scale of the proposed neighbourhoods, the Didcot Countryside Protection Forum (D.C.P.F) formed with the express aim of limiting damage to untouched green fields surrounding the town. The group attempted to encourage greater environmental behaviours and soon discovered ways to hack the smart home system to highlight greener aspects of their own behaviour. This included boycotting their lawn mowers in order to wild their back-gardens, taping up lightswitches to prevent use and avoiding use of the regular waste side of their smart bins...even if that meant rubbish piling up in their own homes. fig.C.1 {ACTION}: ‘Don’t Use the Regular Side’; Rubbish piles up in the home of an environmentally minded resident following suggestions to boycot the regular side of smart bins.

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G. MODEL VILLAGE

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fig.C.2 {RESPONSE}: The Green Belt; North East Didcot The impact on the model is revised neighbourhood plans for north east Didcot with housing typologies being forgiving on the countryside and the green belt becoming a physical entity on the landscape.

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D. THE CLICKFARM NIMBY The H.o.T. neighbourhood plan poses a new challenge to the nimby’s of Didcot. Appalled at all the proceedings a local NIMBY sets about trying to amplify his data trail. The NIMBY creates a click farm to turn his voice into hundreds, spending his evenings signing petitions and reading anti-development articles on his many screens. fig.D.1 {ACTION}: ‘Sign the Petition’; A Clickfarm installed within the home of a Didcot Nimby. Each phone amplifies the voice of the individual to push for greater demands

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G. MODEL VILLAGE

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fig.D.2 {RESPONSE}: Hyper-Dense Suburbs; Didcot Power Station Site Reading an increase in anti-development sentiments in Didcot due to the NIMBYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s online campaign, all the planned neighbourhoods of the garden town are pushed to the site of the defunct Didcot power station.

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E. THE CAMPAIGN FOR BETTER PUBS PLEASURE SEEKERS The Campaign for Better Pubs (C.B.P.) developed as a response to a group of residents concerned over the lack of public house provision in the Didcot garden town proposals. Rumours had already begun to circulate around town that the H.o.T.’s sophistacted lifestyle analysis could be manipulated to produce certain desirable effects. C.B.P set about testing the extremes of the system and soon discovered crude results could be achieved by simply faking exaggerated consumption patterns. The group took to the shops bulk-buying alcoholic beverages in an attempt to register higher drinking and socilcitate a response on the neighbourhood plan.

fig.E.1 {ACTION}: ‘If you buy it, they will build it’; Concerned residents bulk-buy alcoholic beverages to demand improved pub provision.

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fig.E.2 {RESPONSE}: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Unsustainableâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; After chaotic scenes in supermarkets, decision makers decide to call an end the test. The model is covered and a commission is formed to investigate the findings.

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