Mob'up: mobile kit for events and participatory activities in public spaces

Mob'up is an innovative, mobile, and modular device that encourages cultural, social, participatory, and event-based activities in public spaces. The project is based on a structure equipped kit with a complete but lightweight technical infrastructure that allows the development of many features: a cozy lounge, radio broadcasts, micro-concerts, theater performances, outdoor screenings, neighborhood meals, open stand-up comedy stages, participatory conferences and debates, and more.

Objectives:

• Animate, and positively appropriate the public and green spaces of a neighborhood.

• Create a temporary multifunctional space designed for and with citizens.

• Be environmentally friendly through the reuse of materials and sustainable modes of transportation.

• Provide the neighborhood and its stakeholders with a tool that can be used for a variety of purposes.

In order to make public space a place in the full sense of the term, where people can stay and enjoy, we think of ways of intervening that can be deployed everywhere and at all times—beyond technical constraints, the capacity of public spaces, and access issues.

A structuring tool for a neighborhood

Associations, social and cultural actors, and residents can use it to propose awareness-raising activities and events related to neighborhood issues, organize festive occasions or opportunities for reflection and exchange, and encourage the creation of new projects.

A tool for reclaiming public space

Installed in strategic locations, Mob'up allows to meet residents and users and get closer to the city's projects and news. The small size of the structure creates an intimate setting that encourage encounters, but it can also be deployed as a “pop-up” and be recognizable in public spaces to create a landmark for everyone.

A tool for citizen participation

Mob'up explores new forms of citizen consultation and implements an innovative communication and interaction system, enabling us to meet everyone in the area and thus involve as many citizens as possible and boost participation.

This is an existing pilot project that is going to be tested in Rosa Parks (North east of Paris) and that can be adapted to another neighborhood in another European city as needed.