[3] The Political Circus or the Parliamentary Road Show.

This is the theme group which will be followed for the rest of the semester under the strategy of Mobile Architecture. The general brief for this theme group project is as follows: 


Jennifer Siegel states in her lecture Mobile Design- the Death of Distance (2009) "in an increasingly changing social and environmental climate of today we are no longer believing in the monumentality of buildings."

She sees "as the future of buildings become more portable and adaptable they become more useful. Before long we will shed the bulk of excess of static environments... With the recognition of mobility of demographics and information there is an increasing capacity of architecture to respond to fluidity"

In Australia we are seeing increasingly growing social and environmental shifts. The nomadic worker (whether at home, in an office, on a train or plane) and the nomadic politician?

The travelling Circus requires a place to perform. Is this in a structure that has to be erected (and then how does this travel easily?) or is an existing environment modified temporarily to suit their needs?