2024-11-21T14:41:44-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149967425/oma-and-bengler-rebel-against-the-sharing-economy-sort-of Nicholas Korody 2016-09-08T12:18:00-04:00 >2016-09-14T00:43:57-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ez/ez9t2gnfpbodxdxu.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="http://archinect.com/firms/cover/382/oma" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OMA</a> teamed up with the digital consultancy and product development studio Bengler&mdash;who also converted the firm&rsquo;s massive data set into a website&mdash;to put together an installation-cum-digital platform for the <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/149958919/home-away-from-home-an-interview-with-the-curators-of-the-oslo-architecture-triennale" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2016 Oslo Triennale</a>. Dubbed PANDA, the &ldquo;counter-organizational platform&rdquo; both critiques the sharing economy and, in classic OMA-fashion, wryly critiques that critique.</p><p>A red plastic strip curtain demarcates a space that could have been teleported from the basement apartment of a hacker. A grid of sticky notes inscribed with the names of various sharing platforms adorns one wall, while on another a poster maps their global impact. On a desk a six-monitor computer displays various images of countercultural resistance, tagged and sorted by theme. Next to it sits a bottle of Provigil&mdash;a wakefulness medication commonly (ab)used for all-nighters by college students&mdash;and a stack of news clippings exposing the ills of the sharing economy.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/as/asi8e8qq63mhdkde.jpg"></p><p>A special PANDA WiFi network is accessible throughout t...</p>