Public space offers us a place for dwellings, discovery, assembly. A place to interact with one another, helping us with our sociability and solidarity, and in turn granting us the possibility of living a good life. However, now days we have become less inclined to speak to others. Our generation rather path through their daily lives with their faces glue to their mobile screens, speaking to those who they already know. We especial see this back in the walls of the WDKA. A school that has been rebuild, to transcend it in not only a transparent but social interactive workplace. And yet we remain in our preformed little "clicks". Is there a way to trigger human interaction in places that most needs it?
Place
1km2 around the Willem De Kooning Academie (this includes the market at Blaak)
Proposal
Through a small trigger event, cause the ice to be broken so that people are more likely to talk to each other.
Plan
Research the area
Gather and analyse data
Concept sketches
Proof of Concept
Recalibrate proof of concept
Proof of Concept (try-out two)
Design Research
01
Debriefing
HUMAN INTERACTION
Preface
Not only has the Willem de Kooning change the curriculum, the echo of this transformed can seen in the architecture of the building itself. With the remove of most the walls and introduction of stations, the school has been deconstructed to be reconstruct into a transparent learning space, that attempts to promote the idea of interaction among the students of the different curriculums. However, is the removal of walls and adding of station enough to cause interaction among the students? Or is is more that needs to be done before our “social through our mobile phone” generation is comfortable enough to risk an conversation with another.
Problem
The Willem De Kooning Academie new curriculum can only truly flourish when there is interaction between students from the different studies. However, is transforming the building into a more transparent working area and the introduction of station enough to cause the students to start to mingle among other studies? I very much doubt this and out of experience of working in the station, have not come across this sort of interaction yet.
Because I am question the problem that students of different studies don’t interact with each other. I thought it would be interesting to break this pattern, hence I have set myself the task to work with some one for a different studies, who too has an interest in this topic. That person is: Naomi Martopawiro, for Audio Visual. Who is busy with a project for this quarter interaction with people at the train station at Blaak ( Sorry voor dit slechte uitlegt van jouw concept;))
Place
Willem De Kooning Academie, with field research done in the Train station of Blaak.
Plan
To research Human Interaction. How do we interact with each other? What is need to be able to feel comfortable enough to do so? Why should we even bother to get over our insecurity and speak to others? With the ripping down the walls of the various stations of the Willem De Kooning Academie, has this lead to more interaction among the various students? Can we cause a interaction? How do people react to various approach to interact with them, do they enjoy it or find it distressful.
In order to answer theses questions, we will be doing using the following the research techniques:
- Psychogeography
- Field research (approaching people to start an interaction and documenting this via film)
- Interviews
- Analysing
- Ethogram
Research Book: about the importance of human interaction and how we can encourage it. Plus the document and explanation of Naomi Martipawiro Project of attempting interaction at the train station at Blaak.
Structure:
• Introduction
• Human interaction
• Why should we interact with others
• What do we get out of leaving our comfort zone
• Do we still interact with each other (train station and publication station)
• Why do some people interact while others chose to rather not to (Interview Jim vs Rianne)
• Can we cause interaction? Can we make it easier for other to interact
• How other react to being approach
• Conclusion
Goal
To study and again a better understanding of why and how we humans interact with each other and in turn transcend our findings into a document, research book and a product that can help interaction on the first day of school. This we will hope will help flourish the new curriculum, by accrediting human interaction in the Willem De Kooning Academie.
In the best cause scenario, we will turn this into an exhibitions that will be placed in the the train station of Blaak and in the school itself.
Vision
An exhibition consisting out of a research book and document that will accredit human interaction. The exhibition will be accompanied by a critical product that helps to make human interaction easy and more low-key.
Mission
To study and again a better understanding of why and how we humans interact with each other and in turn transcend our findings into a document, research book and a product that accredits human interaction.
Deliverables
• Research document online
• Research book
• Document
• Exhibition
- Visual identity
- Announcement posters
- Interior design for the exhibition
- Flyer
- Website
• Critical product that will help accredit human interaction