plugfinder.com: Finding and Sharing Electricity in Your City

Art and Design;Arts

Denfeld, Zackery C.Ann Arbor ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Art and Design;    Arts;   

Others  :  https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/55457/zack_denfeld_thesis_plugfinder.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

瑞士|英语

来源: The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

【 摘 要 】

The proliferation of mobile electronic technology such as cellular phones,laptops, and lightweight video projectors increases the demand for electricaloutlets in public and semi-public spaces. www.plugfinder.com is a website thatallows people to annotate maps of electricity outlets in their city.The virtual activity that takes place on the website is accompanied byoccasional organized walking tours by the plugfinder team. plugfinder.com is aproject that promotes the temporary use of urban spaces through the creativeadaptation of electrical infrastructure.By documenting and facilitating street level uses of electricity, the plugfinderproject calls attention to the manner in which daily routines and access toresources are defined by infrastructure, bringing to light a little noticed, yet vital,public resource. This paper posits that providing electricity as a public goodhas the potential to generate social and cultural capital for cities.This document may be relevant to municipal governments, urban planners oreconomists in order to prepare for creative uses of electrical infrastructure. Theplugfinder.com project itself may be relevant to anyone who wants to explore oruse space temporarily in the city they inhabit.