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(Un)Conducive Spaces

During last week’s presentation at Ideo I touched on conducive spaces places that you expect to be, well, conducive to ad-hoc social interaction and engage in whatever research questions you're interested in exploring without unduly pressuring the people or changing the vibe of the space itself.

A good example? A bowling alley in Tupelo that served as a social hub for both young and old members of the community. Less productive spaces? For starters the techno-playing bowling alley in Tehran turned out to be a dud. And during the same 10 day cross-country road trip of the US as the Tupelo bowling alley we also stopped off at Doug's Sport and Shoot gun range for what we assumed would be a photogenic round of meet the locals. Turns out that interviews, guns, ear-muffs and ammo don’t mix.

And the photos? Last week-end's Utah style après-ski.

Writing from Monterey | March 12, 2007 | Permalink