Thanks to Ed Mitchell for pointing this one out to us, an interesting event that basically works on a Participatory Budgeting model, but as more of a fun evening of games and debates.

The idea is that the audience for the event get their entrance money for it pooled together, then get to vote on how it’s spent. Unlike PB though, they also get to vote on pretty much every aspect of the event, even down to what the rules themselves should be.

It seems to have come up with some pretty amusing occurrences as a result, including almost abolishing the whole thing and putting the money behind the bar, and buying a small amount of woodland to be owned collectively between the audience members.

It’s a really interesting mix between a game show and a serious social point, and the ‘case studies’ of what happened are really well written too, so have a good browse around the ‘Who Wants To Be’ site and see for yourself!