WiFi: keeping sex workers safe
p2pnet news | Advertising:- Sneaker-net has taken on a whole new meaning, p2pnet posted in May last year, going on:
“Apple and Nike have come up with a shoe-cum-iTunes-cum-iPod nano marketing scheme aimed at Macolyte joggers and keep-fit fiends. ‘Grab an iPod nano, a pair of Nike+ shoes, and the Nike+iPod Sport Kit, says the promo site. Rock ‘n’ run,” says another. ‘Your shoes talk. Your iPod nano listens. Track your run in real time’.”
Well, The Aphrodite Project has taken the concept a quantum leap forward into an area which seems to actually be practical and useful.
It states:
“Platforms, the latest series of work in the ongoing Aphrodite Project, is a social sculpture: an interactive, wearable device that is a conceptual homage to the cult of the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite, a practical object for contemporary sex workers, and a vehicle for public dialogue.
An integrated system of shoes and online services, Platforms draws on the innovations of the courtesans and professional companions of antiquity to improve the conditions of 21st century women who, despite advances in culture and technology, are now perceived to be outlaws by trade and are vulnerable to surveillance and violence.
Platforms empowers all women with tools to stay safe, wherever they want to go at night, without having to hide.
The pic on the right comes from a Flickr post here.
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August 23rd, 2007 at 12:58 pm
She might hurt herself if she falls off those platforms