The name “3MP BOX” stands for: “micro mobile multiuse public box”. It refers to a prefabricated unit, able to be mass produced, and mainly intended for public use.
Based on observations of public activities, fictional scenarios are developed forming the basis for a more comprehensive spectrum ranging from buying and selling food and newspapers, to speeches and mini concerts. Modules can then be chosen and combined to form the “public nucleus”: a reinterpretation of the typical kiosk or the typical food-selling cart.
3MP BOX is formed with the use of o demountable cubic frame, onto which standard clip-on elements are then attached. These standard elements, in the form of frames, can also be customized with the use of even smaller standard elements. Altogether we have the basic frame elements, the floor and ceiling elements, the vertical panels, and the elements used for the connection of units. For every set of elements there is a wide variety of choice, from material to form, and components are available that can be added. The system’s flexibility is based on its ability for movement as much as the wide range of clip-on elements. The different combinations of these elements can produce an unlimited number of solutions that can adjust to an equally unlimited number of circumstances.

In one of the fictional scenarios that were developed, industrial 3MP BOX is placed in a specific location and functions as a “printed material magnet”. Its aim is to define and imprint the location’s so called “printed identity”. One of the project’s basic goals is to provoke public interaction. The everyday man, as an image receiver, is asked to recompose these incoming images in public space and thus be an active part of the “image-making act” in his city. The moment, the place, the random element and public interaction, are all factors in the composition of an ever-evolving play that takes place on the box’s panels. When the box or the boxes relocate, all panels are replaced and a new act /“collage” begins. At the same time other activities can as well be hosted in the boxes transforming them into “public-life nuclei”.
Within this conceptual scenario, there was an attempt for a real time application, in a specific location, using a handmade structure.