Analyzing bike lanes and their infrastructure in my neighbourhood using four criteria:
Consolidating my findings into one design
Section
Class summary
Analyzing bike lanes and their infrastructure in my neighbourhood using four criteria:
Consolidating my findings into one design
Section
Class summary
Stanley Park Walk…
categorizing from high intensity smell to low intensity.
Street tree photo series. Grouped by challenges with how street tree plantings have been designed.
Grouped by design opportunities: signs of care about street trees
Birth and death of street trees
Redesign/ideation: creating space for trees
Redesign/ideation: a process for street tree life cycles alongside humans
Further iterations and refinements could be made by categorizing street trees by street type (commercial, residential, arterial, highway etc.) to compare which types of challenges and opportunities are present on different types of streets. Looking at the attributes of the trees associated with cracked pavement could also be explored (species, rooting depth, age, mature size).
Summary of what I learned in the course: Sense-walking and the cube method give you a framework for making sense of the world around you. Sense-walking also helps to develop empathy as a designer, and to further understand the experiences of people with diverse sensory abilities. Sketching + engaging the senses together engage both analytical and intuitive thinking.
In-class exercise
The takeaway from the course. We started with macro-analysis of the environment exploring the relationship among sites. With cube analysis, we studied spatial circulation within the site as well as with the surroundings. As the course developed, we dig into a deeper and more detailed sense, focusing on specific objects, to learn what sensory experiences they brought to us.
creepy (? version
Drawer knob exploration
In-Class Assignment:
Assignment 10:
Taste/Sensory Narrative of Eating a Pickle
Drinking Object:
In-Class Assignment:
Assignment 09:
In class exercise: course progress. From chaos to order every week.
walking around the neighbourhood and noticing all the different types of water features, some functional (rain water management) and some decorative, providing noise diffusion. Also noticing all the different public seating options available, from park benches to swings.
class wrap-up image – symbols of each assignment with a graph expressing my personal enjoyment in comparison to each.