Hack[PUBLIC SPACE]

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.