Republic 2.0
20. 6.—4. 8. 2019
Republic 2.0
20. 6.—4. 8. 2019
Republic 2.0 is an attempt at a designer’s response to the quandary in which the modern state has found itself, torn between the forces of accelerated globalisation, technological progress, environmental threats and a new wave of migrations.
An aging demographic structure in the Western world is signalling a new crisis and a transnational competition for citizens and workforces. Citizens are increasingly turning into users and understand the state as yet another service provider in the market competing against a forever greater number of technological giants (Google, Facebook et al.).
The modern state is thus put in a position where it is forced to manage its services as a true technological start-up. Suddenly, developing a public healthcare and school system or planning new roads is no longer enough. The state must develop user-friendly applications and gamified citizen services as well. Some countries, such as Estonia and Canada, have already tackled this via their e-citizenship system.
The Republic 2.0 project will disassemble the state into prototypes of state services with a new vision: to become a lean, technologically-advanced winner in the global race for citizens. In line with these baselines we are going to reshape the key points where citizens meet the state: upon “entering into” citizenship, elections, waiting on healthcare and a number of others.
Republic 2.0 will allow visitors to experience, via six interactive screens, a state that sets technological, design and communications trends. And it will be up to them to decide if that’s the state they really want.
A project by Ljudje
Location
MAO
Pot na Fužine 2
Admission
free entry