Parliament

The book explores the double-sided relationship between space and politics by documenting and comparing the plenary halls of the parliaments of all 193 United Nations member states. Almost like a manual archive, the book documents the rooms in the same style and scale and also provides key data and the assembly hall’s location within the larger parliament building. Organized as a lexicon, the book allows comparison of all 193 national parliaments in the world.
— from https://parliamentbook.com/

When I was studying Political Science as an undergrad, I chanced upon this book that gave me a new revelation of the scale and extent of the political system, through this simple concept of seating arrangements in parliament! Made me realise how different — and yet how vastly similar we all were!

[Curator's note: Visit https://parliamentbook.com/ as the virtual counterpart to this book to see 360x180° panorama-photographs of the parliament sitting arrangements.]

— Joey, SD