It has nothing to do with the old gray metal model. The prototype of the telephone booth installed for a week on the Malraux Peninsula in Strasbourg is in purple and fluorescent green wood. Inside, there is an old rotary phone and a tablet. “With the phone, you can obviously make calls, and on the tablet, you can have access to a whole series of services on the internet such as geolocation for example.” explains Marion Graeffly, the Strasbourg director of Télécoop, at the origin of the prototype.
“We pick up our phone 220 times a day”
“On creates places where we can use digital technology, to ultimately do better without it. How to use your cell phone less? We hold a cell phone in our hands 220 times a day, that’s huge. It encroaches a little too much on our lives and our freedoms. It’s about doing without it when you don’t want to.”.
The goal of Télécoop is also to offer a place where you can call when you’re out of battery or when we do not yet have a telephone, like when we are a child or teenager and to place these telephones in front of schools for example, in the countryside where there is not much network or in city centers, where there is a lot of traffic.
Emilie Pou
For the moment, it is only a prototype, created in Strasbourg. Mass production is not yet planned. Until then, improvements still need to be made to the cabin.
