Croatia 2010 project brainstorms

Let's start brainstorming. If a project is good enough we'll find the money.

Let's keep our options open and ambitious and then think of the barriers later.

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Here is a crazy idea.

I have been thinking about ports and shipping containers. See wikipedia for a bit on these ITU's, ISO's or Isotainers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containerization

Rijeka is a port city on the Adriatic.
http://www.portauthority.hr/english/rijeka/news_07.shtml#2003
Rijeka will change dramatically when Croatia enters the EU.

What if we bought, rented, or leased a shipping container here in the states and built a show and activities out of it and shipped it to Rijeka?

Options:

• If we bought, the show could be housed in the unit itself and painted on the outside. We'd have to buy it (around $1200 each used and $6000 new) and arrange shipping ahead of time (truck, train, boat there. Then truck to show site somewhere in Rijeka.) There will be additional shipping and customs charges. Questions: do we pack a show in it-- traveling style-- or do we pack it like a crate that gets unpacked? Would there be a spot in Rijeka or Opatija or Zagreb where we could put it? What would the show be like in the inside? Could it be a mobile Moving Crew unit that we could load on a truck and take to two sites?

• This is obviously not a cheap proposition but also not completely out of range either I believe. Hopefully ambitious. I think the biggest financial issue is still getting people to Croatia.

• Rent a shipping container and pack all our supplies inside of it to have shipped to Rijeka. What if we packed it full of all types of transport-- a boat, bikes, mopeds, motorcycle, skateboards, scooters, etc.? Use these around Rijeka, Opatija or Zagreb in some way. Commute, shuttle back and forth between Rijeka and Opatija. Make videos, performances, 2-D and 3-D artwork, installations out of these activities?

• There are services where they can drop the container off at your house for two days, we load it, and then they pick it up and off it goes via truck, train, and sea to Croatia. Or services where they stop by your house for a few hours and we load it up and send it off to Croatia. Amazing.

• Buy one and move it temporarily somewhere in Croatia and live and work out of it? Just work out of it?

• Obviously this kind of thing would take some prep on our part. If we buy one we'd have to find a way to sell it back to the port in Rijeka. Not sure if this is possible. In the U.S. and much of Europe (countries that export little) they are trying to get rid of them versus shipping them back empty. These suckers weigh 8,000 lbs (3,500 kg) empty.

• Would the shipping container be an ideal format for bringing ICRAPT back? Collage work inside? Or perhaps some sort of library? Or a technical support center of some kind? Or a passport office? Could we make it into an office? (UN or NATO office, landmine office selling landmines for people to plant, Blackwater office, Halliburton office. An office trying to get Croatia to join a new group similar to European Union called Jugoslavia. Other ideas relevant to Croatia? Perhaps some of these listed here are offensive?

• Steel containers. Could we dismantle it and do something with it? Transform it into something else relevant for the sites in Croatia? Salvage?

• Best to use a worldwide friendly size of container (no bigger than 40' (12.2 m)long. Inside dimensions approx. Length 39'5" x Width 7'8" x Height 7' 9" with door size height 7'8" x width 7'5"

Other info:
http://www.shippinginternational.com/fullcontainer.htm

http://www.boxdeposit.com/

http://www.containercity.com/index.php?id=1

http://www.tempohousing.com/projects/keetwonen.html

PLEASE ADD TO OR REVISE THIS IDEA!
PLEASE ADD OTHER IDEAS FOR CROATIA PROJECTS!
Let's keep our options open and ambitious and then think of the barriers later.