Bianca: Council Members, welcome to our first plenary session. After the market crash caused by sea level rise and heat wave we have opened this building to the city. As you all know, people have been inhabiting, using and visiting the building for weeks now. We have two motions to pass today: the first motion regards to the name of our institution now that the Museum of Modern Art has ceased to be, we must find a new name for this place. I invite you all to proceed individually to suggest a name for this new space, on paper. I will then read the suggestions, we will debate the suggestions and proceed to vote on a new name for the institution.
I remind you all that the institution now hosts a holistic healing center called the Glass Dome, it is also the home of a self-sustaining commune, it hosts a library, archives and weed growing operation. Art is being produced in the building using people who have come in looking for shelter. Those operations are currently being funded partially through the luxury apartments on the top floors and the profits made by the Glass Dome. Operations are also happening in the basement although these are not entirely clear to the whole Council. The institution is now currently run by an AI called “Möma” [Mooma].
You have five minutes to propose your motions individually, we will proceed to debate your motions at 6:25pm…Do I have everybody’s? Anybody’s missing? Alright, so I that, how this is going to work is that I’ll just read some of them an then we’ll discuss freely what your favorite one’s are, I guess, and then we can actually start voting. Alright, so here we go…The Project (number one). Pee Wee’s Playhouse. Happiness and Home. The Place to Stay. Center for Home. The Home Project. The Commune/People’s Commune. Möm, Möma, I don't know the accent, got that double dot on the “o”. Space. The Project. The Institution. Namaste. Four You, um, four, the number 4 and U. Bio-refuge or Biosphere. What do you guys think?
Amirah: I don't like “The Project.”
Billy: I don’t either.
Amirah: It sounds very experimental and why “my project?”
Anatola: My favorite was, I mean out of a few, but I enjoyed “The Center…The Center of Home” what is it?
Bianca: The Center for Home.
Anatola: The Center for Home because it makes it seem like…“Center” makes it seem like real or like just a good place that knows what it’s doing and “Home” in the place of apocalyptic times is nice. And I also liked “The Place to Stay”, just like those titles that brought about a sense of welcoming, like “come here.”
Emily: What if it’s just home?
Carol: I like home, I like “The Home Project.” I like that because it's proposing a new way of living.
Bianca: Five, six, seven…Guys it looks like “Home” won.
Amirah: I object.
Bianca: Yeah, Yeah, but I’m saying, like, “Home” won but you guys were like, hesitant, so…
Amriah: I think “Home” sounds very bland.
Bianca: I think you guys need to start making more suggestions.
Amirah: How is it a home if people are being killed?
Yared: Because you can stay here.
Amirah: Okay but…a home is supposed to be like where you love and…
Yared: Well I stay home, but people are being killed outside, that doesn’t mean it’s not my home anymore.
Billy: Like, home has, like, a complex.
Bianca: We really make the rules here, so we can do whatever we all want.
Amirah: Alright I vote for “Home.”
Eric: Yeah Home for the building I think as a whole. It's very welcoming; it’s straight to the point.