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Contributors

ANTONAS office Athens, GreeceStudio Miessen Berlin, Germanystudio BASAR Bucharest, RomaniaCLUSTER Cairo, EgyptCulturstruction Dublin, IrelandSUPERPOOL Istanbul, Turkeyateliermob Lisbon, Portugalpublic works & Isaac Marrero London, UKecosistema urbano Madrid, SpainSrdjan Jovanovi Weiss / NAO New York,USA

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throughout the world since 2008,the catalyst being the nancial crisistriggered by the collapse of themultinational banking systems. We are now in an era of particularly well thought-out and networkedmass movements that through theconvenience of a digital news cyclecan be followed more closely than everbefore. Planning for Protest takes acloser look at how public spaces shapeboth the physical and psychologicalbackdrop of these public events.

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DIGITAL PHYSICAL

URBAN OPEN HARDWARE

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1. Organisation layout of Puerta del Sol during the protests. Unkown author. 2 & 4. Drawings about how Puerta del Sol was occupied by the spontaneous structures, by research group at ETSAM http://viveroiniciativasciudadanas.net/2011/07/26/sol/ 3& 7. Inteligencias Colectivas - Sol 15M. Cubrir la plaza . Images of the physical occupation infrastructures http://www.inteligenciascolectivas.org/ 5. #acampada de Sol on May 24 th , by @silvitou and @trecedejunio 6. Multilayer analysis, Physical layer(street) & digital layer (Twitter, Mename, Facebook, Massmedia) from study Technopolitics: The potential of connected multitudes by J. Toret and others in the DatAnalysis15M research group at IN3 - UOC

neo-municipalism The protest needs hardware. A whole set of tools,equipment, materials, devices and the physical space itself become crucial for assem-blies to happen.

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UBIQUITY

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bridging distances Augmented events to build an extended awareness. Real-time social mediabeating the ltered and edited traditional media. Extremely quick reactions on site, triggered by online informa -tion. Spreading the movement to other cities and back, with very fast long-distance connections.

1. #spanishrevolution in Trendsmap 2. Snapshots of the Interacciones entre usuarios 15M video made by BIFI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5w4amBIHj4 3. Evolution of twitter activity during different phases of the debate: 1/ Gestation, 2/ Explo-sion, 3/ Globalisation, 4/ Anniversary, by P. Aragn 4. Citizen involvement , from study Technopolitics: The potential of connected multitudes by J. Toret and others in the DatAnalysis15M research group at IN3 - UOC 5. Real-time video streamingsrecorded with mobile phones during 15M protests http://bambuser.com/channel/Urbanohumano

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1. & 6. Twitter hashtags breakdown from study Technopolitics: The potential of connected multitudes by J. Toret and others in the DatAnalysis15M research group at IN3 - UOC 2. #NoNosVamosNosEchan , young people exile website http://www.non-osvamosnosechan.net/ 3. Of cial ICV-EUiA and CUP campaigns hashtags and other ones which had some in uence on the ballot of elections. 4. 15M vocabulary cohesion between May 15 th-18 th, by O. Marn & outliers. 5. 15M vocabulary on March31 st by O. Marn & outliers. 7. Graphic at abc.es about indignadoss gesture language. http://goo.gl/M2koi

building a common sense Common values and principles help a common languageemerge. In physical assemblies, certain gestures are adopted to make mass communication easier, whereas insocial media, hashtags and keywords are adopted according to the current and trending topics.

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(SELF)ORGANIZATION data and actions Massive protest movements require an incredible amount of self-organization. The campsites and demonstrations on-site require safety and salubrity for everyoneparticipating. Collective decisions have to be constantly made to guarantee the groups well-being.

1. Vacaciones en Madrid (sic) , Google Map to prevent police charges in a peaceful demonstration. 2. Abretuwif 12m15m, WIFI connection points during the protests in Puerta del Sol, GeoCommons 3. Digital tool to enable groups of people to interrupt

Bankias activity by saturating of ces http://toqueabankia.net 4. Casastristes.org Visualization tools for decent housing 5. Ikimap.com Map of the protest camping sites 6. #15Mpedia Lista de las asambleas , List of assemblies during 15M 7. Twit-tmetro de votaciones , #yeswecamp ; Decision making through Twitter tool by Platoniq

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POST-EVENTS ARCHIVE

1. Cuntas personas caben en Neptuno - Plaza de las cortes? Capacity analysis of a speci c public space in Madrid by O. Galvez 2. Collaborative database of different materials about 15M http://bancodeideas.15m.cc 3. Evictions list , #15Mpedia

4. 15M in the newspapers ; Presence of 15M in front pages in different media by @numeroteca 5. #nolesvotes , Corruptdromo Spanish platform exposing political corruption 6. Physical archive of objects and elements from the protest: http://archivo-sol15m.wordpress.com/ 7. Topsy graph with 15M phases and moments of more activity. Phases, background, bang, latency, globalization and evolution can be displayed (within the study period) CC by J. Toret and J. Linares

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footprint and evidence Documenting the movement for the future is crucial forcreating historical consciousness. Digital visualization tells us interlinked stories of those who livedthrough the events. Thus, information feeds the complexity of territorial identity.

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