Porta2030

PORTA2030
by Take2030

PORTA2030 is conceived as a performative urgency network exercise with porta-porters works toward building a portable and responsive social network by year 2030.

PORTA2030 deploys porta-pack, a mobile network unit that documents, archives and transmits electro-data. Roaming in wifi-zone, PORTA-porters equipped with porta-packs upkeeps the communal data and echoes each other upon receiving urgency signals.

In Spring 2006 first PORTA2030 exercise was hold on Broadway Market a racially mixed urban street currently part of Hackney Council's regeneration plan, as the site for its premiere public performative exercise. Broadway Market known as market porter's path was the route that transports produce from Hackney fields to city markets. PORTA2030, while pushing forward the network connectivity, further documents Broadway Market's transition with its residents and market traders.