Entry #71
Subtract Billboard
Shumpei Noto
Masayuki Kawasaki
Kazuto Yamasaki
Katsuhiro Tanabe
A crowdfunding app targeted at "erasing" unpopular billboards from the city scenery. The app keeps a citywide list of billboards along with their costs, from which citizens can select ones that they deem objectionable and begin crowdfunding campaigns aimed at converting them into blank boards — at least temporarily.
- Metadata:
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• 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
2 (Strictly for public good) 1 - 2 - 3 (May profit some parties involved) -
• Time scale of citizen-led changes to cities enabled by the idea
1 (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
1 (Anyone can participate) 1 - 2 - 3 (Requires expertise, time, money, etc.)