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Elasticity of Anti/Social Spaces

20 Apr 2008
In: Design Inspiration, Ochanomizu
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Mobile phones used in this Ochanomizu hospital, restricted to phone booths. In a world of smaller more discreet objects, how to know what activity a …
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Acceptable Behaviours, Traces, Interpretations

15 Jan 2008
In: Cultural Norms, Mumbai
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Red dye from Mumbai above, blood from slaughtered sheep from Urumqi, below. The traces/bi-products of activities, the social acceptability of those activities, the extent to …
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Define Socially Acceptable

03 Jan 2008
In: Dushanbe, Today's Office
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A sign-of-the-times moment from the Caravan Cafe – an upscale organic restaurant in the Tashkent suburbs: a lady walks in alone and sits at the …
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Legitimising Behaviours

29 Nov 2007
In: Design Inspiration, Tokyo
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Empty can placed in the sweeper’s pan – in the bottom right of this photo. Objects and their associated actions that legitimise otherwise anti-social behaviours.
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Activity Frames

02 Oct 2007
In: Design Inspiration, Shibuya, back of
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No smoking between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 – rare to see time boundaries for this activity. The increasing ability to monitor what kind …
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Missing, A Good Thing II

29 Oct 2006
In: Tehran, Today's Office
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A late walk through a rather sizeable local park in an effort to stretch my legs. By 10:30pm the remaining visitors are families checking out …
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Understanding Consequences, Affecting Actions

18 Apr 2006
In: Future Perfect, Hawaii
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Graffiti/sign stencilled close to many of drains in Hilo make it harder to ignore/easier to understand the consequence of inappropriate dumping. Fast forward, same situation, but …
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