{"id":143,"date":"2026-04-15T23:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/game-of-democracy\/?page_id=143"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:32:55","slug":"checks-and-balances-and-stones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/game-of-democracy\/checks-and-balances-and-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"R2Democracy2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">R2Democracy2 (2026)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara Wexler and Marika Ragnartz<br>wood, stainless steel, stone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wexler &#8217;26 and Ragnartz &#8217;26 are both majoring in engineering with concentrations in art at Harvey Mudd College. In this piece they have industrialized the chance to vote as an engaging process with a visual output. The piece is inspired by Simon\u2019s <em>Kleroterion<\/em>, questioning how voting can be reimagined<em>. <\/em>Democracy is currently failing to make voters feel influential. By designing a voting experience that is engaging and produces a visual output, the participant knows their vote has an impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The process follows these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pick up a marble<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drop the marble in the funnel above the desired bowl<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See how the beam balances<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The only catch is the marble may not fall in the desired bowl if the funnel is not lined up correctly. <em>R2Democracy2 <\/em>helps the voter examine what it means to make a choice that may not end up as they want, as well as go through. Similar to our current democracy, the marble may not fall in a bowl at all, therefore the desired outcome may never be reached. However, whereas the United States democracy hides much of this process behind a veil, with this piece the voter can see every aspect of the path their marble follows, providing them with full transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R2Democracy2 (2026) Sara Wexler and Marika Ragnartzwood, stainless steel, stone Wexler &#8217;26 and Ragnartz &#8217;26 are both majoring in engineering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":198,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-143","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/game-of-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/game-of-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/game-of-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/game-of-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/game-of-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/game-of-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/game-of-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/game-of-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/game-of-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}