The open source public space devices is a potential kit of resources and knowledge shared by communities and urban practitioners already involved in shaping and redesigning public spaces.
The research is focused on conditions where culture of sharing – from word of mouth and scientific tradition to coding and making – could democratize the production and transformation of public spaces in spaces of commons.
The aim is to integrate within the development of the kit – co-design, prototype and make – an exploration of what public spaces mean for european people.
Outputs are going to be a replicable methodology, a situated research in different scenarios and an initial kit of open source public space devices. The kit and its forks would offer a different approach for public expenditure in public spaces.