AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Sustainable Cities & Communities
KEYWORDS
community platform, recycling, youth employment
COUNTRY
Ghana
DESIGNED BY
Qamp
WEBSITE
https://qamp.net/
AMP Spacecraft
AMP spacecraft is an alternative architecture for making.
Small-scale, mobile, incremental, low-cost and open-source, spacecraft operates as a set of tools and equipment to craft space in different ways, enabling makers with limited means to jointly navigate and terraform their environment.
Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform (AMP) is a transnational youth-driven project to promote maker ecosystems in Africa, starting at Agbogbloshie. Our agenda is collective action: join hands to prototype tools and co-create a hybrid digital-physical platform for recycling, making, sharing and trading. We maintain that to realize an innovative future for Africa, we must start from the ground up: mining what already works for models and methods, and deploying co-design within existing communities of makers, across class, religious and tribal strata. Currently we are building a spacecraft at Agbogbloshie and digital network that links recycling with digital fabrication and distributed manufacturing.