Final Stretch . . . Park-talk final iteration was conducted at SVA Interaction Design studio Friday @ 1pm. A personalized profile drawn Badges were made to represent each student from the class of 2015. Each badge was laid out with a hand-drawn caricature, an unfinished prompt eliciting individual’s activity to be written in upon deciding the location to leave their mark within the studio.
Our approach was basically to create an analog opinion/poll/choice/input that gets placed AT the location rather than on a map, and by “locals” of the studio.
The result– students reacted favorably to the prototype because it’s amusing to see the range of commentary – some comments are practical, others are inside-jokes/humorous that would be understood within the local community that inhabited the 3rd floor of Interaction Design program at 136 W. 21st NY, NY.
Our final prototype elicited a sense of whimsy and playfulness prompted by the design but really only actualized and the story to come in full fruition based on the participation by the community themselves. The collected identities left at each location expressed the various “personalities” to come through the studio, giving a sense of “aliveness” and a sense of belonging and/or community to the locals inhabitant. The markers left by the “locals” were a co-creation that we could not have imagined by pure design alone.
Here are the results of the outcome of the prototype which is grouped by similar location:
North Classroom/Breakout Rooms
Kitchen/Dining Area
Lounge Area
Student Lab
Men’s Loo
