CHANGE RULES!

A solution by housedada submitted to Make my City Better! by FARM CULTURAL PARK

CHANGE RULES! is a multimedia platform which purpose is to tell Farm Cultural Park’s unique story of social and urban regenaration, through an interactive interface that allows users to experience a series of contents as a toolbox to help improve and replicate that adventure.

(Pitched: 20/12/2017)

One Page Summary

CHANGE RULES! platform users will experience a guided path, a hypertext instruction manual, that provides custom made video, animation and graphics contents as well as reorganized previously existing contents (such as youtube videos, photographs and also newspapers' articles) around the web
Change Rules storytelling’s core are the RULES: a set of principles describing Farm’s story, experimentation and modus operandi which essence is synthesized through platform’s content.
Rules are both able to organize the platform instructions manual chapter-wise, as well as work as tag/label to recall the proper multimedia content, whether they are custom-made of pre-existing.
By rules we mean both practical procedures that help to replicate Farm’s regeneration experiment through building and managing tips, as well as more human and ethical advices that help people having the proper human attitude and mindset in order to engage the social interactions needed to built a vast net of collaborators and supporters, the way farm has been able to do in its first 7 years of existence.
Every chapter/rule will feature a textual/graphic explanation as well as recalling the proper multimedia contents tagged after that specific rule name.
One fundamental thing that complete the call request, other than making people being able to replicate the experience, is letting users being able to help farm optimizing its managing, and making this possible by submitting a new rule.
Through a specific form, a user can submit a new rule by writing it and attaching multimedia content. The rule will be subsequently reviewed and eventually approved by the platform masters and then added to a then new version of the instructions manual.
Rules are further represented with a specific and unique icon constantly displayed on a portal’s sidebar.
Most of the multimedia content will be gathered using and organising the huge amount of video and photo Farm Cultural Park’s pre-existing material, and then completed through custom-made videos made with interviews to Farm’s creators and collaborators and animations covering the lack of historical material.
Farm Cultural Park is increasing its popularity year after year, collecting an always bigger number of supporters, and it’s starting to be a worldwide-example of world changing act. CHANGE RULES! platform enables the model of Farm Cultural Park to become a world class best practice, helping those who’d really like to become an act of change but don’t know how, such as dismissed building owners, or cultural operator wanting to manage public spaces virtuously.
Finally, as a self made kind of experience, even a reality as Farm’s can be optimized and improved by people who knows more and that what this platform’s also aiming at.