The network of voices

Questions about the issues of the day appear on the screen. You answer into the microphone. Speech recognition takes the answer, a classifier tags it, and the answer becomes a point in a three-dimensional network that joins similar answers with lines.

You can set your own answer beside the others' and see where views overlap and where they part. The aim: to encourage people to talk rather than drift apart, and to counter polarisation in how opinions form.

1. What are the biggest problems the state must solve in the next ten years?

2. What is the biggest problem in your neighbourhood?

3. What should your city do so that you live more healthily?

4. What do you do every day that you are not paid for, and why?

5. Which jobs do you think are important? Say why.

6. What would make you give up your own car?

7. If you were free to make your ideal job, what would it look like? Describe it for us.

8. What do you want the city's empty lots and half-built buildings for, and why?

The original installation, «Data Correlations», is Studio Brüll's work: a microphone, speech recognition, a language model for tagging, and a live graph on a wall. This experience rebuilds that idea for the browser and for Iran.

This network holds 67 written answers, about 1,400 sample answers made from short phrases, and whatever you say. A small keyword tagger in your browser works in place of the language model. If you wish, it sets your province beside your answer, and the «provinces» lens turns the network into a map of Iran. Your answer is sent to the network with your visit number, nameless, so others see it too; your voice is not. You can turn this off in «Your record».