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Democracy Street is a crowdsourced digital art project to reconnect the public with democracy, through maps. Parliament wants the project, called Democracy Street, to result in an exhibition of original artworks and maps by November 2015.
Using a dedicated mobile and web app, Parliament is encouraging people to discover and explore streets across the country that have a link to the UK's democratic history. Users can discover "democratic streets" by either hitting "Find streets around me" within the app, or manually dropping a pin anywhere in the country. The intention is that people upload their responses to locations and stories they discover, which will then be turned into data and, eventually, art.
Democracy Street was commissioned by The Speaker's Art Fund and Arts Council England, and will be led by artist Jon Adams.
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