City Space: The Final Frontier

The Project

So, here in Madrid, it has been a wacky week. First, politically rallying pigs overtook a bar in
Malasaña and now architectural anarchists are planning on over-run the
city. But don’t worry, both camps are
cool… uh, we think. Read on and figure
it out for yourself:

From
the MediaLab center in Madrid

ZOOM
invites you to the first “Hunting-Days” event (http://www.zoomarchitecture.fr/ )

Consider
your city as a virgin space and become a new kind of urban explorer. Every new
space or urban object will unlock uses of the city.

The
Wikibivouac project is aimed to construct and relay alternative practices
(habits) of urban territory that encourage unusual logics of space (generally
related to the property of space and the commercial principles which defines
it) through the possibilities that ‘networked-knowledge’ allow.

You
and your team will have 24h to gather data that will feed the Wikibivouac’s
collaborative map.

Between
Saturday the 8th of March, 8.00am (GMT) and Sunday the 9th, 8.00am (GMT), spend
your time exploring your city in order to gather a list of places, spaces,
urban objects… Keep their position (street addresses or GPS coordinate),
write a short description and add them to the wikibivouac database. Each new
entry will be added in real time, and shared with all the users.

If
you are ready for a world wide collaborative experience, a tutorial video will
be available online in the beginning of the first hunting session. It will
explain to you the different aspect of the hunts but also how to enter your
data in the wikibivouac database.

The
rules and objectives of the “hunt” will be announced on March 7th at the end of
the day check the above website.

Which
city is going to be mapped first?…