The Walking City
A collaborative ecosystem for creators in Helsingborg Sweden: an Off-Chain Decentralized Autonomous Organization
The Walking City is a series of community development experiences for the community of creators around BoostHbg– a public entity in Helsingborg, Sweden working to support the creation of new storytelling formats.
Throughout 2020-21, Boost has undergone a transformation to reach goals related to fostering an ecosystem for communal learning, and to improve the way creators communicate with them and viceversa.
The narrative of The Walking City is inspired by the avant-garde group Archigram, who worked with hypothetical neofuturistic architecture in the 1960s. The Walking City acted as a metaphor for the desired resiliency and adaptability of the collaborative ecosystem of creators that is being developed by Boost.
The community products and services imagined during this process will slowly be deployed and tested by BoostHbg and The Time Travel Agency.
The following are the speculative products that were created inside The Walking City universe
The Institute of Collaboration
A building where teams work together to solve challenges threatening the creative community. Their hanging pods host “The Human Eggsperience”, a comforting space that creators can enter to work together.
The building also represents how Boost is encouraging creators to engage with one another: “Join the space, group the challenges you are facing, work with others, take your time.”
The Hardware Store and its Catalog of tools
A 4-floor store hosting diverse tools for resiliency, inclusion, trust and connection, and decision-making. A catalog to advertise the store was also created, which people could use to order online or subscribe to receive these tools.
The tools were a reflection on the skills that Boost creators possessed, conveying the message that the tools a community has already exist within its members.
The speculative film “A Day in the Life of a Collaborative System’
This film made distributedly by the entire BoostHbg team showcased the steps a creator would take in order to engage with BoostHbg. Sock puppets prototyped rapidly served as perfect characters.
This is a speculation of how their organization would work on any given day from the perspective of the Boost team and the community they serve.