SwapBox

As my research has progressed I came up with the thought of trading up and bartering, specifically how can we improve the lives of those in Philadelphia by trading an item for an item?

What would happen if there were designated spaces throughout the city in which you could place an item that still has life but you no longer want, all while potentially taking the item that was already there?  Call it a hobby swap, trading up, or simply swapping.

Identifying a decaying city infrastructure, newspaper distribution boxes, as the source of such public swapping boxes.

12th and Pine

19th and Market

12th and Locust

9th and Walnut

16th and Spruce

There are also countless stories about how these newspaper distribution boxes in their current form have become boxes of blight.

CBS Hundreds of Philly Newspaper Boxes Labeled for Confiscation

Philadelphia Weekly Stuck on Philly

Neighborland Want Newspaper Boxes Redesigned or Removed

A potential diagram of the process may be illustrated below;