What kind of biases do you have when you choose a parking space? What affect your decision to park in one place and not another?
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The introduction of this Berlin electric charging station creates a new tethered dynamic – and a potential obstacle to pedestrians. For every new technology a …
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Proportional Response
11 Apr 2011
Car with parking ticket in Shanghai. The parameters (size, duration, …) that can increase, reduce or negate a fine? And the tools to collect evidence …
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Parking wardens – digital gunslingers, patrolling the neighbourhood documenting changes, violations to the accepted norms. These are the real Streetview, adaptable, malleable, willing.
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Some of you are old enough to remember address books that aren’t connected – when the loss of a little black book or mobile phone …
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Orix Car Sharing service in Kyoto.
If there’s a country where the tools to discover the spatial location of objects are omnipresent, it is Japan …
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Risk, Security & Working Styles
30 Aug 2010
Given the situation in Afghanistan how smart is it to conduct street/ad-hoc research on the ground? To answer this it’s worth reflecting on the working …
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From ‘Is this You’ to ‘This Is Me’
17 Aug 2010
The security protocols for working in Afghanistan dictate that the driver doesn’t hold up the name of the person they are picking up, but …
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Signage in an underground parking structure tucked between Trafalgar Square and the Institute of Contemporary Arts – given the density of government buildings in proximity …
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A beautifully minimal phone kiosk design – doesn’t include a coin-return slot.
The explicit design choice of a one-way direction of coins assumes a 100% …
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