Hack[PUBLIC SPACE]

Authors

  • Diego Fagundes da Silva Nimbu Studio, NIMBU, Brazil
  • Erica Azevedo da Costa e Mattos Federal University of Minas Gerais
  • Romullo Baratto Fontenelle University of São Paulo

Abstract

The way we interact as citizens in new global and local scenarios is changing how we build our cities, how we relate as individuals and how we assign value to our work. We use the digital tools available to create new physical and virtual territories which are the supports for our activities and needs. Concepts like open source and crowdsourcing are manifestations of our unceasing search for adaptation. Within this context architects, designers and other cultural producers are seen as fosterers of projects with which, besides contributing with their specific skills, they can also investigate, invent and take alternative courses of action. Our proposal is a reaction against this context created by countless forces. We develop our discourse around three elements - money, time and space – to suggest an empowering engine, a way to take control, or simply a survival strategy. We propose to create a currency associated with time, a mediating digital platform and physical infrastructures supporting the productive activities. Someone’s time is counted by the digital system linked to the physical platforms which compose a complex system spread throughout the city.

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Author Biographies

Diego Fagundes da Silva, Nimbu Studio, NIMBU, Brazil

He is architect and urban planner. Master in Urban Planning, History and Architecture of the City. He is one of the founders of the hackerspace called “Tarrafa Hacker Clube”. He researches architecture, design, illustration and artistic projects with public exhibitions and interventions.

Erica Azevedo da Costa e Mattos, Federal University of Minas Gerais

She is architect and urban planner. Master in Urban Planning, History and Architecture of the City. She is one of the founders of the hackerspace called “Tarrafa Hacker Clube”. She researches relations among Architecture, Urban Planning, emerging technologies, and creation and learning collaborative processes.

Romullo Baratto Fontenelle, University of São Paulo

He is architect and urban planner. He researches cinema, media, urban art, public space, art installations. 

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Published

2014-12-10

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 10 (2015): V!10 DIY//Do It Yourself!

Section

Project