Porta 2030 Taipei

year 2030 – Your mobile is locked, your network is blocked, your roaming is barred. By year 2030 –You own a porta-pack, you own the network, you are on the RUN. This is the warning and the call to action that TAKE2030 proclaims. PORTA2030 imagine the world of 2030, in which many momentous changes have occurred. All the rules and values of history have been rewritten. People have shattered the long-term monopolistic constraints on knowledge and freedom of thought. The porta-pack is the crucial device that has broken the lock on liberty. The original porta-pack is the creation of UK based TAKE2030. It includes a modified wifi network system, a webcam, a signal-generation device and a GPS tracking unit. Through this wireless transmission device, people have gained the ability to interact and communicate regardless of geographical boundaries and without obstructions.

During the Taipei Biennale, Take2030 called for Taiwan’s open source community, network visionaries and fashion designers to join project in constructing a porta-network for the year 2030. We, Shi-chen university fashion students in collaboration with students from CS/EE (electronic and electrical engineering and computer science) have co-worked on this creative project and produces our version for Porta-Pack for year 2030.