City of London pedestrian wayfinding system
The City of London pedestrian wayfinding system incorporates stones that blend with local architectural styles of the area they are positioned.
Leadenhall Street [photo by @exios ]
Moorgate [photo by @designworkplan ]
Liverpool Street [photo by @designworkplan ]
More examples of pedestrian signage systems can be found in the ‘Pedestrian Signage in the City’ Flickr group.
Social Accretion
When someone enters a space, they have little understanding of what has gone on previously, or how their presence adds to or erodes the social context of a place. Few people comprehend how their behaviour influences the change in spatial and social dynamics, or how the collective shift of their behaviour becomes integral to the community identity.
Whether over the course of a day or year, the patterns of use in public spaces change dramatically as a new collective tide of visitors and locals inhabitant a space and bring to it their own experience and expectations that enrich the environment with a new context.
Platform 5, Jason Bruges Studio
The Platform 5 at Sunderland Station project digitally replaces physical absence through the introduction of a 144m light wall. Where a vibrant and busy platform once stood, a dark void existed. By installing the light feature, the space regained a sense of balance for the migratory community that remains.
Visualising Social Interactions: Final Outcome Sketches
Rather than free movement, the cubes are now restricted to tram-lines. In public areas where chair movement is frequent, such as coffee shops and bars, social interaction to move chairs has been minimise into brief phrases or even simple hand gestures. Where the movement of cubes is restricted, individuals and groups will need to collaborate in order to create social areas, and release ‘blocked’ cubes.
Hopefully, this process will encourage the level of social interaction, whilst also visualising decisions made about relational inhabitance. Also, in contrast with free moving cubes, there will be a much more legible result at the end of the day, when the cubes find there final settlement.
The after-life of public spaces.
Story to follow soon…
HAPPY: collaborative shop shutter graffiti, EC1
51.515112,-0.074818
Middlesex Street, City of London, EC1 7
#TINAG2010 discussion: Community
NOTES TO FOLLOW…
Community or Collective?
Community
-noun
>a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.
>a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists.
>an assemblage of interacting populations occupying a given area
Collective
-adjective
>of or characteristic of a group of individuals taken together
-noun
>a collective body; aggregate.
Christiaan Nagel Mushroom
During a recent Anti-Design Festival workshop I spotted and documented a mushroom on top of a building on the corner of Redchurch Street and Ebor Street. At the time I had no idea what it meant, but now I have finally found out that this was one of a series by London based artist Christiaan Nagel.
Night shots of Aviva building public space, City of London
