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Rosie, a fictitious residents action committee (Responsible Owners and Savvy Intellectual Environmentalists) will give a voice to these concerns. Rosie isn't simply a faceless organisation; she has character, she is a cantankerous, bigoted, self-righteous, middle class hippy. Rosie's aim is to impose her opinions and values on all of the residents, thus fostering a sense of community and common purpose. The audience she wants to speak to is the internal one within bedZED: it is an auto-referential dialogue connected with the idea of a closed and self-sufficient community like bedZED once aimed to be.

Rosie follows military techniques in her campaign, including shared responsibility for the actions of the individual and creating a self-montoring and self-policing society. For these reasons, Rosie has to be considered the main character of this story because she begins with an action, provoking a reaction of the residents with her intervention. She is a voice, a voice of disappointment.

Rosie's campaign will provide an interesting portrait of the contrasting values and attitudes of the bedZED residents.