WikiTankers

Mobile devices for public space

Assembly manual Wikitankers
Meeting Wikitankers
Assembly day of the Wikitankers
Transfer of Wikitankers
Transfer of Wikitankers
Mediatanker
Barratanker
Gastrotanker
Gastrotanker
Infotanker
Agrotanker

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In the context of the workshops organized by ACVic, the concepts on the limits of urban furniture are reviewed under the title of Collective Construction in the Social Space. It is based on the premise that we can understand 'furniture' in a sense as broad as we are capable of, and that our ambitions regarding the city can take physical form in catalytic devices of civic life.

Transformation and temporality

Here, five specific mobile devices are proposed: from guerrilla kitchens to media-tanks to. These devices can transform any corner in a matter of minutes in any event, in an ephemeral way, temporarily or in a more or less lasting way, in a party, a forum or a dining room.

In the workshops, an exercise was organized where creative practices and self-managed collective strategies were developed, which are articulated in a network and seek to influence social processes through alternative systems for citizenship. In the same way that small mobile elements articulate and equip our homes or work stations, the 'furnitures' are used to equip and articulate the collective space/the public road.

The five mobile devices are: the Gastrotanker (portable kitchen), the Agrotanker, (mobile garden with aromatic plants for the use of the kitchen), the Mediatanker, (a technological support for communication and multimedia support), the Barratanker (furniture device for popular meals, meetings , etc.) and finally the Infotankers, as infopoint for the assembly of the 15M of Vic.

All of them were developed through garbage containers, altered and adapted according to different uses. The vast majority of the materials were obtained through recycling.