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Title: Wayfinding your Senses Audience: Urban explorers Location: Melbourne CBD
Intervention Summary: This is a small scale urban intervention experiment for Melbourne’s urban explorers to re connect with their senses and how they respond to signage as a wayfinding. For this I have created a path for Melbourne’s urban explorers to re discover each of these spaces that focuses in re activating each senses and to find your own sanctuary space in this concrete jungle This will become an experiment to prove for a new way of interacting to one another and pushing away for a moment from that world of virtual interface we are so constantly dependant over
3 _ Introduction
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Location Map
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I needed to find a site at the cbd and is within the central part of the city and is highly occupied, thus I could receive as much response from various demographic of the people of Melbourne.
I also choose this strip as it is easy for me to monitor and survey as a whole.
5 _ Site
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Journey
The path will start with a way that leads one to a space of: 1. Vision 2. Sound 3. Touch 4. Smell and Taste
6 _ Design
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Materials
List of materials Vision: mirrors Sound: spoons and strings Touch: textured blanket Smell and taste: lollies and strings
7 _ Design
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1A
1B
2 A/B
1 A/B Signage: Here the path starts with 1 A OR 1 B. 1 A was installed between 11 am to 2 pm and 1 B was installed from 2 pm to 5 pm. 2 A/B Vision: using the mirror to let the eye survey, control and investigate the space surrounding it.
8 _ Installation
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3 A/B
4 A/B
5 A/B
3 A/ B Sound: using spoons as a tool in creating a sound that could articulates the experience
4 A/ B Touch: Covering the urban furniture with texture thus letting the skin to read the texture, and comfort
5 A/ B Smell and taste: Hanging loolies over the tree and opposite the bin, letting the people in discovering the sweet smell before the stinky bin, giving impact by letting the nostril/smell articulates the experience and awakening the forgotten image. 9 _ Installation
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Photographs
VISION SOUND
TOUCH
11 _ Observations
SMELL+TASTE
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Time : 11 am - 12 pm Condition: less occupied
Time : 12 pm - 5 pm Condition: highly occupied/crowded Observations
How do people respond to signage?
Notice/Acknowledge Respond & Interact No Interaction Less occupied: the more people are willing to respond and interact More occupied: the more people aren’t able to recognize and respond to its surroundings 12
Observations
Who are Melbourne’s Urban Explorers? The older generation seems to have noticed and responded very well, as well as the younger demographic (mostly students). However, many of the city workers don’t seem to engage.
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DO NOT FOLLOW THE PATH 80 %
FOLLOW THE PATH 20 %
BOTH 10%
Observations
Why do people respond to signane? From the statistics, so it seems that the people are more drawn to rebelling against the signs, people are more attracted to the bolder statements that could go against the common rules but challenges/fulfils the curious minds.
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Conclusion: The more intimate,empty the space is, the more realizable are the qualities of its physical contents thus we use our sense more in spaces as this. This becomes clearer especially when setting up the signs for Thomas garden, as the site is not so crowded and is intimate in its own being,
I realized people are so easily drawn by my signage as wayfinding. And so, I guess, the less distraction there is within your surrounding, only then you are able to realize physical contents within a space and till then you start activating your sense unconsciously.
Thus the subjective experience is only successful in a space with great intimacy and less obstacles And so in relation to my project, it seems that the site that I have chosen could potentially become successful as it is under occupied and utilised and this could allow for one to endure the subjective experience within each spaces of senses. Also, this relates to how people are drawn by their curious minds rather than obvious expectation within a space. And so, the potential of exploration in finding each of my spaces of senses could be successful, since the people are so drawn in following a path they yet to discover.
15 _ Conclusion
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