Micro Challange

El Carrito

Present Continuos In urban areas such as Barcelona, citizens are increasingly facing challenges related to the management and accessibility of water resources. The rising cost of bottled water—where even a six-pack has become significantly more expensive over the years—highlights growing inequities in access to basic necessities. Simultaneously, drinking tap water is no longer considered safe due to the presence of pollutants and toxic compounds linked to deteriorating pipeline infrastructure. These issues extend beyond consumption: urban gardening and green spaces are also under stress, as recurring droughts and water scarcity complicate efforts to maintain vegetation. These conditions reflect a present continuous crisis—one that is unfolding in real time, revealing the systemic vulnerabilities in how water is distributed, valued, and controlled in the contemporary urban environment.

Alternative Presents Imagine an urban context like Barcelona where citizens are equipped with the knowledge and tools to autonomously design and produce systems for collecting and consuming potable water. This alternative present envisions a decentralized and accessible methodology compos ed of low-tech artifacts, digitally fabricated components, and open-source design strategies. Leveraging digital fabrication tools, self-production ethics, and community knowledge-sharing platforms—such as an open manual and an interactive website—individuals and communities can collaboratively hack urban infrastructures and reimagine their relationship with water. This speculative yet feasible scenario promotes a shift toward autonomy, sustainability, and equity in resource management, challenging centralized and commodified models of water distribution.

So El carrito is a prhotesis to achieve this alternative presents, I love do hands-on experimentation for discovering myself and learn from the material, my team-mates, teachers and tutors.

Step by step I'm learning a lot of new skills in Digital Fabbrication, I really love help my classmates. They start to ask me some suggestions or advice to have a better outcomes. Here below you could find all the documentation in hackster.io and a repository on git hub

El CarritoHackster.io

https://github.com/AndreaSanti102/El-Carrito.gitgithub.com

Future improvements

• Water filter (material,maintenence,proportions)

• Water filter (different applications, maybe think about other prhotesis to use)

• Testing with analogical and digital sensors

• Adjust some details in all the 3D files

• Testing in the street

REFLCTION

This was my last micro challange of this amazing journey. Had the possibility to be in this community as FabLab makes me very proud of myself. Micro challanges guys aren't only a joke, but are 1 week experimentation with a lot of commtiment and obv a lot of fun (that's just because people from FabLab are literally amazing). Thanks to all the 4 Micro Challange I understand deeply myself as a designer, both the practical part, methodologies and working in group. Hope working with this joyfullness for all my design carrer.

Hand Making, Hands-on experimentations, Wood making, Digital Fabrication, Surviving, Sabotaging and Dissobedience....

VI VOGLIO BENE RAGAZZI, MI MANCHERETE TANTISSIMO. MI SENTO SPECIALE PERCHE' SONO IN MEZZO A PERSONE SPECIALI... UN ABBRACCIO <3 <3 <3