Entry #64

Qhatu

Efrosini Alexia Collazos Masanovic

A proposal to create a system of market stalls that are controlled, rented, and managed by users through a mobile app. Creates flexible and temporary spaces that entrepreneurs, small business owners, and community members can use for certain periods of time and sell their products. Locations of the stalls can be decided by the community as well through a polling system.

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• Metadata:
• • The degree to which advanced technologies (including IT) are used
    3  (Low-tech) 1 - 2 - 3 (High-tech)
• • Site-specificness: The degree to which the idea targets a specific locale
    1  (Site-agnostic/universal) 1 - 2 - 3 (Site-specific)
• • Degree of commercial potential
    3  (Strictly for public good) 1 - 2 - 3 (May profit some parties involved)
• • Time scale of citizen-led changes to cities enabled by the idea
    3  (Short-term change) 1 - 2 - 3 (Long-term change)
• • Geographic scale of citizen-led changes to cities enabled by the idea
    Not Applicable  (Small-scale change) 1 - 2 - 3 (Large-scale change)
• • Hurdles toward participation, from a citizen’s perspective
    3  (Anyone can participate) 1 - 2 - 3 (Requires expertise, time, money, etc.)