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Rights To Use Public Infrastructure
Parking spaces in the public domain but not to be used by everyone - doctor, ambulance, residents, VIPs only.
For designers of mobile devices, understanding how public infrastructure is used and abused is important not least because it affects what people decide to carry and the relative importance and positioning of what is carried.
For infrastructure in public spaces - who has what rights to use what resources? How do people understand what those rights are? Who will have have priority over whom? What happens if the rules are broken? And what is the likelyhood of infringements being noticed?
Writing from Tokyo | February 22, 2006 | Permalink
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What about the previous identity of those spaces? Before their conversion to parking, for example, and consequent integration in the public domain? Could it affect their current use? I recently saw Ogawa Shinsuke's "Narita: Heta Village" for the first time, and was completely overwhelmed not only by the amount of protest that surrounded the construction of the airport, but mostly with the impact that the controversies had in the farmers and villagers lives. Should we collectively forget about it? Can technologies help organise memorials to such preemptive infrastructures?
Posted by: Joao P at March 2, 2006 1:54 AM