Structure of the research: Memo Nov2nd

Urban Open Space Community Design
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Landscape Architecture		 Social Sculpture
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Public Art		 Interaction Design & CHI Urban Lighting Open Light
Issues Hard Edge / Soft Edge
Navigation
Allegory
Planting
Places
Times Every day
Periodical
Event
Happening/Spectacle
 Participants  1~10
10~100
100~1,000
1,000~10,000

Process

  • Field Work
    • Literature Review
    • Field Observation
  • Modeling
    • Places, People, Issues
  • Scenario
  • Prototyping and trial
    • Role-play on site
    • on-site/afterwords interview/inquiry
  • Feedback to Scenario

Definition of Openness in this research

  • Open Access to Existing Lights
    • On/Off
    • Color
  • Open–super mobility of lights
    • Portable Streetlight?
  • Link
    • of lights
    • of user-lights
    • of users
  • オープンの人間関係。ライトを持つ側と、それを利用する側。利用者がライトをもっている場合は、場所を管理する側との関係？どのように交換可能なのか？それぞれの場合になにが　有益で、何が問題になるか？

Community

  • Involvement of existing community
    • Community of practice Wikipedia
      • Such as dance club at Keio Campus
    • Housing community
    • Close and small circle of friends/ family
  • The system forges new community
    • Becomes ‘Existing community’ in process
  • Weak tie:

Place

  • Typology of Open Space/Public place
    • Community Design
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      Landscape Architecture
  • Typology where art/interaction design can expand those two.
    • Social Sculpture
      in
      Public Art
  • Interaction Design & CHI
  • Typology  from Light /City
    • Urban Lighting

Participation

  • Ladder of participation (in community design primer)
  • Passive
    • Sensor, Piggy-back info gathering(i.e Suica)
  • Semi-Active
    • Sensor, but being aware of
      • Camera with monitor
      • Public control panel
  • Active(within given freedom)
    • Apps, Webpage control panel of Mobile device
      • Proximity based
      • Limitation of access within the area
    • Low-tech participation
      • Kyota Takahashi’s way ( in Yokohama)
  • Active(involved in design /  improve / maintenance process)

Overview (as of Oct 20th)

  • OpenLight
    • Openness: Participative Urban Landscape (with light)
    • Direct Participation
      • Social Sculpture
      • Design for Ecological Democracy
      • Place Making
  • Goal of the research
    • Contribute methods and cases of “Placemaking efforts” to the field of
      • Public Art
      • Urban Landscape/Lighting Design
    • Solve design challenges
      • Flip conflict between different users to trigger shared moments
      • Conflict between multiple usages of the place
      • Scalability. 1,10,100,1000 users
    • Process of the research
      • Modeling
        • Places
        • Users
        • Issues
        • Interactions
      • Scenarios
      • Evaluations
      • Prototyping
        • Garage style: for preparation and check technical feasibility
        • In real setting: grounding hypothesis
        • Improved

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