The Balcony Broadcasting Company presents: I heard it on the washing line

'I heard it on the washing line' is a proposal for an intervention on a council estate in Camden that could be adapted for use in any large building with balconies. Traditionally the balcony has acted as a platform for political and theatrical activity within a particular building or street. This project aims to amplify and aggregate balconies as a wider, but still local, platform for communication. Participant residents are facilitated to securely mount their TVs to face out into their street or other shared environment and connect to their neighbours TVs to form a larger decentralised community display. Where broadband networks are typically used to perpetuate the status quo of consumers and producers of media, the BBC creates hyper-local broadcasters supported by their own communities, all using open-source design, hardware and software.