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Orix Car Share

28 Sep 2010
In: Design Inspiration, Kyoto
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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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Actions and Consequences

05 Sep 2010
In: Design Inspiration, Munich
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Articulating the consequences of actions as an affective form of deterrent – a photo of a car being towed away from in front of the …
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London SOS

05 Jul 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Trafalgar Square
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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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Object Universals

07 May 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Xuhui
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Apartment hunting in any culture is a day-by-the-seaside for any amateur anthropologist: with glimpses of lives in progress, empty shells pitched as life-style choices; and …
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Transgression Transparency

11 Feb 2010
In: Future Perfect, Geneva
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Transgressions that become more obvious as the context changes – the parking equivilent of saying the punchline to a rude joke just as the room goes quiet.
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Path of Least Resistance

29 Nov 2007
In: Cultural Norms, Daikanyama
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A row of bikes with ground level and raised parking. Despite their proximity and the minimal extra effort to use the raised slots – all …
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Contextual Warning

09 Oct 2006
In: Cairo, Design Inspiration
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