The communication has dramatically changed the way in which modern political campaigns are run with the arrival of these new media. With more digital native citizens coming into the voting population, social media have become important platforms on which politicians establish themselves and engage with the voters. In the digital age, evidence across the world has showcased the increasing importance of social media in electoral politics.
Over times, with the mutation of the way of orating through the virtual, the spatiality of this kind of digital speech need to be more consider.
That can be a potential way to improve our democracy with a spatiality that can offer a better configuration of communication until direct democracy.
The project focuses on this digital oration but with the will to invert the communication pattern from the politician to the citizens through social networks with the main idea of giving professional tools to the citizens to allow them to give a speech like the politicians and thus strengthen the direct democracy. There is a will to improve the importance of the citizens’ voice (vox populi). The voice of the people is no longer translated into a like or a dislike but into a vocal and performative dimension that brings a more impactful way of giving approval or disapproval of a law or a political speech.
A form of oral dialogue manifests itself in the digital world but also in the urban public space in order to have a panorama of citizens’ opinions on the various political subjects of the day.
This idea is materialised in urban spatial opportunities through a mobile architectural object called “Declamo Apparatus” that is deployed in the city. This performative object allows its user to capture his or her discourse on a topic in the most efficient way and share it in the virtual world.
I listen, think, give my opinion and broadcast it.