Team Meeting

This afternoon we had a team meeting however it was very messy as not everyone could make it and we were trying to communicate as a team in person and on Facebook, however we did still generate some good ideas.

Micky had a few really great pics from the Manners location that I thought were really relevant:

This one is gold because despite having crossed her many a time - I have never noticed it! Makes me think the ground might not be a successful medium for attracting attention.

And I never realised this said shared space - how many other pedestrians have ignored that and just think it is a continued pedestrian area??


I shared my research with the team and was a bit disappointed that they didn't find my insights as exciting as I had thought they were. Instead everyone got caught up in mocking up ideas (which tbh I think is pointless without a foundation behind them) but we prepared 2 ideas for tomorrow's class.

1. was a mock up Blake had created of coloured triangles on the ground to warn drivers they are coming up to an intersection/pedestrian crossing. However the location he chose wasn't one of the agreed locations from last week and had kind of come out of nowhere. I was a bit confused by the idea as it was on the ground - which is a good platform for pedestrians but probably not cars - where things need to be more at eye level. Unfortunately the team didn't feel comfortable discussing ideas critically with each other so this got overlooked.

2. was an idea I generated (and mocked up terribly) that Joe was able to mock up much nicer in the other location. It was about creating a structure with type that would "herd" pedestrians to try and lead them to the safe spots to cross the road. At the manners intersection this would operate to stop people from walking across and into the shared car/pedestrian space, and on the 4 way intersection could work on the corners to lead pedestrians back down the road away from the intersection to make it safer.

Micky and I put together some introductory slides to present tomorrow that introduced the issue and some visual precedents as this wildcard topic was only in it's initial stage (kind of a week behind other projects).