Project #2

Ann Arbor Public Wifi Collective:
Community, Equity, Urban Planning
W/ Josh Myers & Nick Button
*2021 Arts Engine Grant Winner

The Ann Arbor Public Wifi Collective is a proposal designed to address the growing disparity and urgency in internet access that has been exacerbated by the pandemic.

Targeting lower income and disadvantaged areas the project builds off of the existing local transit infrastructure to optimize and give new agency to a public service preparing for new use conditions. Bus shelters will be altered to house speculative Wifi network SuperNode antennas that can provide internet access to entire neighborhoods while providing safe coworking and waiting space for bus riders.

While smaller bus stops serve as router distribution points on a new route through the city carried by a previously underutilized bus.

[summer 2020] Pandemic and The City Competition
Guidance from Paul Danna, Design Lead SOM LA
& McLain Clutter, Architecture Chair Taubman College. 

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