It is an initiative that operates by generating alliances with local spaces and communities in participating cities for the purpose of organising experimental workshops for collective construction of public copyright street furniture elements.
Description of the project by Gri Gri Pixel
After the initial phase in February-March 2016 at Medialab Prado, the experience continued in Dakar during the fifth edition of the Afropixel Festival, and it will carry on in Casablanca (Morocco) in July 2017.
The second edition of Grigri Pixel will be held in October 2017 at Medialab Prado (Madrid), with a production workshop organised in collaboration with Citizens’ Labs from the district’s Municipal Boards, in addition to other activities in the city’s cultural spaces. The initiative was also invited in Barcelona in November 2017, where a production workshop will be organised in collaboration with HANGAR and La Taula Eix Pere IV, entities which are located in the Poble Nou neighbourhood.
In 2018 the project is scheduled to continue in Bamako (Mali) and Lomé (Togo).
Grigri Pixel is a Medialab-Prado and Hangar project in association with ETSII (UPM) and BAU (UVIC).
