Urban Technology 230: Design & Urban Inquiries
This Urban Technology studio teaches students to generate new understandings of urban systems as experienced by humans. Through the creation of "proprietary data," students develop a unique take on the affordances, use, and misuse of physical and digital infrastructures.
In this project, students were asked to examine natural behaviors in order to create archetypes. The team observed individuals using a crosswalk on campus to identify behavioral patterns and create five archetypes based on observations of eye contact, hand signals and body language, eventually creating a dataset of the archetypes based on attention, patience, pathing, and reactiveness. The data sheds light on behavior in street crossings and the ways in which crosswalks can be redesigned to increase the communication and attentiveness of pedestrians.
