#secetgardenmelbourne thomas lo
Title: Melbourne Secret Garden Audience: Publics, Passers-by Location: Rutledge Lane Time/Date: 30/3/2014 3:00-6:30 Duration: 3 & 1/2 Hours
Intervention Summary: Provide an urban refuge for the people near an extremely busy area. An area that is hidden yet revealing to the public. This is to revitalize, re-engage abandoned secondary laneways that have been created by the contemporary enviroment, at the same time observe public’s reaction to such forgotten spaces.
3 _ Introduction
Thomas Lo
Survey
Secret Garden Survey! Please Circle!
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1. AGE! 16 & under, 16-20, 21-30, 31-40, 40 & above!
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2. Access to Social Media! Yes No!
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3. How do you feel?!
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4. What can be improved?!
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Cleanliness
Location
Size
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Beer!
! 5. Suggest another place for the next Secret Garden?! ! ____________________________________________! t!
! 6. Suggest another of your favourite reading spot in the city! ! _____________________________________________! ! 7. Do you like being watched?! ! Yes No!
Thank you for supporting Secret Garden Melbourne!
9 _ Design
Thomas Lo
Observations: There were 4 types of people:
1) People who noticed it while walking on Hoiser lane, but did not stop. 2) Poeple who noticed it while walking on Hoiser lane, stopped and looked. But did not go closer.
3) People who noticed it, walked closer and around. Read the instructions but did not interact.
4) People who noticed, walked closer, read the instruction and sat down and enjoyed themselves. For group 1 & 2, people are generally in a rush.
For group 3, people were often looking around themselves. Their self consciousness stopped them from sitting down. But were excited about the project, they would discuss, talk but not interact.
For group 4, people were often in a group. There were two catagories. First catagory of people would walk around, observe the instrustions and items. Once they found the object that interests them, they sit down. Second catagory sat themselves down striaght away and then read about the instructions. Their approach are very much reversed but in general they stayed around for at least 10-15 mins. Evening time Closer to evening time, there were still alot of people around the site. Mainly because this is a tourist attraction with some famous resturants near by. The sky was still lit with a hint of gloominess, people still stopped to look but no one was interacting with it no more. This is due to a sense of security and perception of an alleyway. The atmosphere has changed, the weather became colder and people don’t feel comfortable to sit down in an alley no more, dispite throwing myself into the seat and pretend to be enjoying myself as this was the first time I saw this. Research There were two types of research that went on with the project - media share and site related reponse. Most of the survey was filled which informed me what type of activies does the public want, how to imporve, how they feel, where do they normally read, and where could be a nice spot for this to reoccur. This has affected my site selection as I will try to avoid exsisting book stores as well as public spaces that are suitable for reading to some extent. 13 _ Observations
Thomas Lo
FROM THE OUTSIDE
FROM THE INSIDE