MEDIA_SPACE INVADERS 2
CO-OP CITY

keywords: media activismo, reclaim the "streams", self organisational forms, common public space.

date: October 13 - 16 2004. CCCB (Contemporary Culture Center Barcelona)


 

txt : The Media Space invaders project is a mobile-workshop/meeting comprising of talks, debates,projections and actions and is held every year in Barcelona.
The second edition of Media space invaders is about the repolitization of public space through the social use of technology and radical/critical architecture. Central themes are urban movements, migrations and civil participation in the city.

Media space invaders 2 focused on the realisation of a bus tour passing trough the Raval and Poblenou districts and other controversial "barrios" and Barcelona's periphery, all being hot spots of urbanistic, cultural and political debates where we've been working the last three years.
The tour, which we called the Co-op Tour, is in itself an on going process of mapping the micropolitics of a city showing the tensions, confrontations and skirmishes beetween the governement and the governed.
In each tour stops, debates, reports, actions and live fm/internet via wireless nodes and local tv broadcasts were set up to help coordinate and publicize the actions of neighbours , activists and architects involved in social movements. A pirate tv (coop-tv) workshop was run simultaneously.
A document will be published later this year.