Wiki Container

The Wiki Container is a 20-foot shipping container and a hackerspace for ideas rather than hardware, and Brooklyn's "front stoop" to the emergent creativity of the until-now-mostly-online Free Culture movement. (with a strong local community in Free Culture Alliance NYC)

The three core programs of Wiki Academy, Unconference Forum, and Remix Museum represent the world's first public space focused on Free Culture and Wiki Encyclopedism.

It is an entrant in the Dekalb Market's Not Just a Container contest.

Wiki Academy
A DIY classroom and Wikipedia Academy, alongside the development of other freely useable Open Educational Resources. Will incorporate elements of the Wikipedia Campus Ambassador program and cultural institutions outreach, supported by the local Wikimedia NYC chapter. Also equipped with a BYOB (Bring Your Own Book) library, and shifting book collection, for weekly writing collaborations on different topics.

Unconference Forum
A modern-day Speakers' Corner with broader community participation, utilizes unconference tools and techniques such as Open Space Technology, Lightning Talks and the Fishbowl.

Remix Museum
Performance, recording, and gallery space for artistic works that embrace the Remix aesthetic and are available under the public domain or free licenses such as Creative Commons, and with the support of local Students for Free Culture activists and innovators.

Outside
Outside walls are covered with:
 * blackboards for the old-school wiki you can edit with chalk
 * clocks with LED lights to mark out hourly scheduled activities
 * one side painted white for film screening
 * outdoor video and audio recording stations
 * USB dead drop

Interest List
(its a wiki effort, sign up below!)
 * Richard Knipel, Wikimedia NYC
 * Ann Matsuuchi, LaGuardia Community College Library, CUNY