The Dynamic Library Catalogue incorporates RFID technology that allows libraries to dynamically map books in relation to user borrowing correlations. By using this system, users will not only be able to keep a visual record of the information they have viewed, but also to see the links between the information, providing them with a greater understanding of the relating contexts of different concepts and theories.
100 lines is an experimental diary study methodology that explores the notion of human as environmental seismograph.
Understanding the needs of clients is extremely important when designing research methods, however in some occasions, understanding the needs of participants can be more-so when the ability of the participate to express themselves is difficult.
Conducting researches for participants with language, literacy and learning difficulties, escalates the problems of how to withdraw information from people who find it hard to share or communicate their feelings and thoughts. Specifically, approaches that rely less on text based diary studies are needed to gain this information.
One form of communication that is seemingly inherent in all of us it the visual form of mark-making. In particular by providing participants with a brief introduction to the concept enables them to appropriate the methodology into a form that they are comfortable with, and soon complex relationships between the individual and external stimuli becomes clearly noticeable.
By utilising the simple process of line drawing, differences between comfort and stress factors and influences on the context of the individual can clearly be seen in how the lines were drawn.
For example, on the underground the 100 lines were hurriedly and furiously made, intensified by restrictive space and self-consciousness. In the calm environment of a controlled space, the lines are soft, consistent and run far more parallel. Collectively, the record provides a visual diary of space, atmosphere, environment and emotion. Integrating a simple location and time headings, the individuals can capture a precise form of communication that they can control much more freely.
Themes raised from the methodology developed in this project were later incorporated in the project, RE:ENGAGE.
MOBr allows groups of individuals to quickly network and create largescale social events.
The Public Design Services is my new research consultancy that provides design and research advice, tools and workshops for organisations, communities and small businesses.
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Using the new Arduino UNO board, an IR range finder and a couple of RGB LED's, I have been able to develop a prototype of the proximity cube.
The purpose of this thesis began as an exploration of the ways different cultural collectives engage and interact with a space and competing identities. We established the concept of Environmental White Space as a method of trying to categorize the contested space between predetermined areas of ideological activities and collective representation. However, it soon became apparent that within this macrocosm there were in fact too many microcosms of behavioural change. As such it was decided to focus upon a specific area, a ‘culture of interaction’, of business environments, and in particular, the City of London. In this place it will be more clearer to identify, develop and establish a framework of engagement that could then be used to show comparative difference in other types of environment.
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