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Define Fruit
One of the more pleasant aspects of heading to a Chinese nightclub is the fruit bowl option - snacking on a plate of fresh watermelon, mango & papaya whilst downing Grey Goose or varient of local beer. And usually the fruit bowl includes a pile of mini tomatos.
What has this got to with the cake above? For starters the red fruit is not a strawberry.
Definitely time to turn in - the team is heading out to one of Chongqing 'burbs at 05:30 for a how-the-city-wakes session and a chance to compare with Kampala, Old Delhi, & Ho Chi Minh amongst others.
Writing from Chongqing | May 31, 2007 | Permalink
Learning from the Desires of Sinewy Men
Packaging designers can do worse than heading onto the streets and occassionally back alleys of a large Chinese city to check out the boxes and occastional tube for 'blue pill' products.
The serious-ish part of all of this, aside from penile erectile dysfunctionality, relate to trust, context & the design on online services, mobility and ad-hoc service offerings.
What does it say about a product, product category or brand that so much relative cost & effort is placed on the packaging?
Writing from Chongqing | | Permalink
Being Polite / Showing the Better Side
Ensuring the guests have cups with a decent lid in this Chongqing suburb, above, and ensuring the guest (or female customer) is given two cups in a Kampala market place below. Why two cups? To make it easier to cool the liquid and less likely to scald lips.
What are the 'costs' of the provider of the 'polite' or this-is-our-best-side service? How important is it that the receiver recognizes the real costs?
Writing from Chongqing, somewhere near | May 30, 2007 | Permalink
Alignment Identity
The physical alignment of the licence plate for the benefit of whom?
Writing from Chongqing | | Permalink
(Mental) Conflict Resolution
Some days simply work better than others - the extended research team fans out to gather data from some of the 32.8 million Chongqingites and arrives back at base with tales of the city.
And you're wondering about the image above? One of the those iconic-objects so-I'll-take-a-photo situations. But whilst you might be tempted to think that China is about tape cassette players running from torch batteries playing Chairman Mao, the reality here is that content is increasingly likely to be both digitial and delivered just-in-time. Your country has shops selling pre-packaged tangible entertainment media? How sweet.
Writing from Chongqing, somewhere near | | Permalink
Inherent Properties Communicating Costs
Back alley restaurant in the suburbs of Chongqing gains multiple benefits skewering vegetables and meats: most obviously the produce is already prepared for the grill; the skewer helps display what is being sold in a standardised format; allows customers to select their own raw ingredients without making hand contact; allows the restaurant to easily track how much each table has consumed; and not least communicates how much each item costs - pricier items being embedded with more than one skewer. Somewhat surprisingly everything turns up in a stir fried mess. Less surprisingly it arrives swimming in oil and covered in red/green chillis.
And the digital equivilent of skewer / multiple-skewer pricing?
Tonight's sounds include to our left the croak batch frogs being slaughtered and to our right a table full of male students working their way through a roster of loud drinking games.
Sort of related: tales of the flesh in Chengdu.
Writing from Chongqing | May 29, 2007 | Permalink
(Sweat) Flows
The distinct lack of Chinese language skills in the first wave our out team’s arrival ensures that it takes a good half hour for us to check in to the hotel, and for the duration or the negotiations for rooms our expansive luggage clutters the lobby. I draw the short straw and am allocated the suite. A room with more space simply becomes a repository for the bulk of research gear, which in turn means more foot-fall and ultimately less sleep. The team is traveling heavy this trip - with about 80 kilos of equipment that will lose its virginity here in Chongqing before bouncing to meet up with us in Mumbai via a colleagues travelling to Helsinki. I’m reminded of a presentation by my colleague Hannu about the cost of moving atoms around the planet.
There are numerous benefits to having a suite - with mod-cons in this instance including a full sized stand alone plug-in mahjong table and a surround sound stereo with no obvious volume control and no off-switch belting out Chinese pop. Yeah, you might quibble and point out that in fact the music emanates from a building across the way. Signs advertising a disco and K-TV stare omniously through the urban mist. It's Friday night, and with a campus housing over 10,000 only minutes away this is student territory. Time to head clubbing then and our research team for tonight is made up of myself and two female colleagues - a Korean and an Indonesian-German - both of whom are often mistaken for locals.
A common night club format in China is to divide the venue into two: an over sized room with bars, seating, and some form of dance floor; complimented with a maze-like warren of corridors that can reveal dozens of side rooms devoted to the dark art of karaoke. Locals hit the main club with a possie, wait for a room to become available and retire there with a few rounds of drinks and sing and dance+ the night away, the privacy of the space being conducive to, well, whatever people the world over get up to in the privacy of their own space.
Being the only obvious looking foreigner in the joint provides a certain social leeway not least of which is that it’s just-about OK to stumble with crew into a private karaoke room, wait out the who-are-you-and-what-are-you-doing-here part of the greeting ritual and join in the festivities. I can appreciate that in most contexts taking your shirt off would be considered rude, but here in the intense humidity of 15 bodies dancing in a enclosed and weakly air conditioned space, it seems rude not to. And anyway half the room is already topless and sweaty and wigging out to a well-over-the-speed limit local variant of techno.
Tomorrow started hours ago.
Writing from Chongqing | May 26, 2007 | Permalink
A Mind in the Smile
Writing from Beijing | May 25, 2007 | Permalink
Time, Reflection, Time
Today’s office is that moment in time waiting for friends to wake.
Our guesthouse lies half way between the bustle of Tokyo and our final destination on this field trip - Chongqing. Mentally I’ve already put down my coffee, set my laptop aside, and negociated my way across the courtyard to the red laquer door-within-a-door that separates the tranquility of here from Beijing, a short walk through the houtong and onto the Forbidden Palace. Jetlag is a usually a decent enough excuse to partake in early hours excursions through the city but with only a one hour time difference there is no excuse.
The two checkboxes for us being here - visiting colleagues in the Beijing design studio, and sharing recent research findings with local members of the fourth estate, are already ticked.
This courtyard breakfast meeting started five minutes ago. Or at least on paper it did - the rest of the team worked late and they deserve a decent’s nights sleep. Eventually a door opens, and a body walks out into the sunshine. Fresh coffee is poured, the working day starts.
Writing from Beijing | | Permalink
Urban Camouflage
Oh the irony.
Writing from Naka Meguro | May 22, 2007 | Permalink
Form, Packaging
Uniqlo's UT Harajuku store - visually stimulating, but very little depth. In other words perfect for Harajuku.
Writing from Harajuku | | Permalink
Sounds of the City
Tokyo is increasingly resonating to the sound of money changing hands.
Or to be more precise - to the sound of prepaid Edy cashless money transactions. And it’s happening at supermarket check-outs, convenience stores and fast food joints - pretty much anywhere with queues that could be shortened by reducing the time it takes to process customer transactions.
If you’re wondering what a cashless payment sounds like and have the patience of a saint visit this flash animation, click on the start button, wait until the dog with the e-ears rents the porn movies, saunters up to the cash register and pays with his mobile phone - that's the sound of a cashless Edy transaction.
And if you can’t be bothered wading through the flash animation - it sounds like the tchariiing of coins hitting a metal bowl (it is not, however the kerching of an old style cash register).
But back to business - given that the Edy designers had the opportunity to design the user experience from the ground up - why did they choose that sound to play at that exact moment in the transaction, and at that volume, and for that duration? What does the sound signify? And to whom?
To get the obvious out of the way - the tchariiing signifies the successful transfer of money from the pre-paid card or phone to the retailer, the completion of a financial transaction. It also serves as an advertisement for itself - reminding everyone within a few meters that, yes, there are more convenient ways to pay. If you want to get people into the habit of using a new technology using ambient audio is actually quite a powerful reminder.
It is likely that Edy will eventually be used by a high percentage of the Japanese population. Once the mainstream is familiar with the significance of the tchariiing what scope is there for introducing new sounds into the pre-paid cashless vocabulary? What is the aural equivalent of moving from a one button mouse to two buttons or more?
What sounds will you hear as you wait for your turn at the cash register in the future perfect?
The future perfect tchariiing may well communicate: the amount of money that was just spent; that you have a healthy balance left on the card; or that your credit has almost run out - acting as a reminder to top up; it could communicate the currency being spent; or that you’ve subscribed to a card that offers other (premium) services; it could communicate what has been bought - confirming to people in the queue behind you that you lead an (un)healthy lifestyle; the calorie count of the contents of your basket; or the carbon footprint or your purchase.
A pre-paid ‘gifted’ by an organization might have monies assigned for a particular purpose: to buy basic foodstuffs but, alas, not alcohol or rizlas or porn, and use the audio feedback as a social mechanism to inforce compliance. Different aural feedback is certainly feasible - when the Tokyo metro ticket barriers authenticate an adult fare they beep, when a child-fare goes through the same barrier it makes the cheep cheep cheep of birds singing. (And when a gaggle of school kids pass through it sounds like a veritable menagerie).
Given that cashless payments are persistent the card could store its owner’s interaction preferences - the tchariiing could communicate the cultural background of its owner; or her musical tastes; or that she prefers the " ", silence - no feedback at all.
For all these things that could be, what are the likely barriers to adoption?
How does differentiating the audio experience increase the likelihood of fraud? Or increase the risk of being mugged? Or serve to overly embarrass? (A degree of embarrassment may be desirable - used by its owner as a form of temptation management). What personal, contextual and cultural differences will mean that feedback that is OK in one situation, inappropriate in another?
During a recent wallet mapping exercise in Istanbul, students were asked to lay everything from their wallet or purse out on the table - with the exception of items they felt awkward about sharing. Without actually having to reveal what those items were, students were asked to explain why they didn’t want to share certain item. One student politely declined to take the money from his wallet and place it on the table - lest the relatively large volume be interpreted as showing off.
And how might the seller wish to manipulate the audio feedback - to whip customers up into a purchasing frenzy? How will it all play out? It's your future - you decide.
And the photos? A delightfully humid Shibuya. The long Tokyo evenings are a fine backdrop our steady preparation - the team heads to China in a few days time - on the first leg of a multicultural research study that will take us to the four corners of the globe.
Writing from Tokyo | May 21, 2007 | Permalink
The Postive Implications of Incoming Objects
Traditional orizuru (miniature origami tsuru) used to shower the bride and groom on their walk up the temple steps - in the photos below. Whilst confetti is commonly used at Japanese weddings, rice is not.
Whilst the objects may vary they share the same fate - that they are thrown. What does the act of throwing imply? Same question for the target of this airborne affection - the bride and groom? What the symbolism for throwers? And for onlookers?
Writing from Aoyama | May 19, 2007 | Permalink
The Colour and Feel of Authority
Bank branding, Taipei.
Writing from Sakura Shinmachi | | Permalink
Easter Island
Writing from Tokyo | | Permalink
The Future Of In-Your-Space Advertising
Advertising boards strategically placed on Taipei's streets. It may not look like much but this is the future.
Why? Because nobody paid to rent the space to place these items here. And because when autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles start appearing in public spaces - think personal transport and personal assistants in modern Asian cities some of these will be co-opted as advertising hoardings, and will find a space and sit there until moved along. Who are the winners and losers when physical advertisements become autonomously mobile?
Cross reference this with yesterday's roof-top parking lot - each vehicle is a potential advertising canvas. What is the value of your vehicle when it is parked and advertising versus, say the cost of parking itself? What is the value of your vehicle when the advertising it displayed is coordinated with all vehicles. And yes, who co-ordinates?
And if you're recoiling in horror at an advertising saturated world - perhaps you'd like to take a lead by removing that logo from your sweatshirt, vehicle, bicycle, sunglasses and shoes?
The fun starts when autonomous advertising spaces are reclaimed by the people whose spaces are invaded. Too far-fetched? See you in the future perfect.
Writing from Taipei | May 14, 2007 | Permalink
Modal Challenges
RFID embedded Taipei Metro token has a form factor that is condusive to being inserted - much like a coin. Except that at certain stations the only option is to press the token on the flat reader surface - much like an office ID card.
Passengers unfamiliar with the train station exit gates i.e. non-locals who are more likely to buy one-off tokens rather than travel cards, are required to change their grip at short notice.
Writing from Taipei | | Permalink
Perceptions of Mobility
Whether something is able to move changes our acceptance of it as an object in 'our' space?
Writing from Taipei | | Permalink
Apartment, Milk Delivered
See also Shanghai milk box designs.
Writing from Taipei | | Permalink
Stopping the Spread of Infectious Diseases/Ideas
"To prevent the bird flu virus from spreading do not carry poultry and birds into the station" above.
"Election campaigning is prohibited inside the station" below.
Writing from Taipei | | Permalink
Extensions to Known Formats
This poster from outside a Taipei design department store includes links to photographer's galleries on Flickr.
Why is it interesting? It's not simply the use of web addresses (rather than QR bar codes, physical addresses, or phone numbers) but the assumptions about what you will or will not find when you link to a Flickr address. The poster may have SEX writ large, but do you expect to find this kind of content on a corporate sub-site to hosting material by howhao, chenyian, myberyl or wangshuwe?
Exactly.
And at what point in the race for media-consumer mindshare it is possible to reduce a web site address from http://www.flickr.com/photos/chenyian down to flickr/chenyian, and still be understood by the mainstream? Why not just chenyian?
Which is of course not a million miles away from keywords. Which is why anything that can shorten the path - taking information from the world around us and making it easier to apply to tasks that we want to complete, has significant potential. PC and mobile search tools are evolving and indeed make search engines/ad agencies a fair income. But it is frankly limited compared to search where if you can see it or think it you can search for it.
Writing from Taipei | | Permalink
The Need For (Implying) Speed
ADSL advertising.
Writing from Taipei | | Permalink
Straw Norms
For drinking this.
Writing from Taipei | | Permalink
Technological Disparity
Monocle currently includes a manga pull-out that is a mixture of Shinjuku boys-own adventure and not-so-subtle product placement. But when the storyline (and presumably sponsors) demand - how to introduce the concept of QR bar codes to a technologically dis-interested audience?
Click to enlarge and read the potted explanation, in photo below.
Writing from Taipei | May 13, 2007 | Permalink
Taipei Cafes Are More Fun
On the assumption that current do not signs are an accurate indicator of what people actually do, obviously more fun.
Writing from Taipei | | Permalink
Height and Weight Surcharges / Discounts
As with Bangkok the Taipei metro allows children under a certain height to travel for free - the height gage appears to the right of this photo.
In a world where so much more of everything is recorded and measured when will we start seeing more price segmentation based on height, weight, shoe size, gait? How will local rules apply to people with very different physiological traits - for example from other cultures?
What is the likelihood that airlines will be the first to start charging more for passenger's of 'excessive' weight? And given the sensitivity of this issue how will these surcharges be disguised?
Writing from Taipei | | Permalink
View From, Payment Of
The positioning of cars in this Taipei car park - in particular the clustering of vehicles next to stairwells.
Assumptions about: the time of day people entered the car park based on the number of empty spaces; weather conditions at the time of parking - both good or bad weather might induce a driver to park on the roof level or park somewhere else; the density of cars on the other floors based on people choosing to park on the roof level; and the perception of the likelihood of airborne pollutants / bird originated airborne projectiles and the ease/cost/convenience of having a car cleaned
Fast forward a few years: vehicles negociating their way to 'better' parking spaces when they become available - you don't need to remember exactly where you parked your car when you have real time access to its location, and vice versa; the extent to which the notion of car parking becomes moot when cars have 'self-valet' features; car parks charging more for individual spaces clustered closer to the exits - this already exists to some extent - entire car parks charge more/less based on their proximity to, say, airports - the opportunities for segmenting the market becomes that much easier with more granular data; car parks automatically providing cleaning discount vouchers for drivers whose cars are hit by bird originated airborne projectiles. And yeah - the extent to which car cleaning service providers would employ remote drones to launch airborne projectiles to induce customers to their cleaning services.
Writing from Taipei | May 12, 2007 | Permalink
Iconographic Norms
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On / Off / Reset or Fade to Black
To what extent do you rely on the electronic objects you carry? What are the consequences if they don't work? How do they fail? If and when they do fail what steps can you take to recover?
When confronted with a frozen mobile phone are you someone who removes the battery? Long-presses the Off switch? And what if, like the crashed/frozen iPod Nano above - the device doesn't have an off switch? Or a battery to remove? You simply get to watch it fade to black when the battery eventually runs out (which isn't normally that bad, except that I'm about to board a flight to Taipei - and no way to recharge it once the battery is drained).
Given the range of tasks for which people rely on their mobile phone Apple will no doubt design their upcoming iPhone to be more robust than its iPod (as would most companies who make dedicated music players and mobile phones). But given the technological complexity and software interoperability issues that are part of many of today's devices what is the likelihood of it crashing or freezing? When the device fails - how will it fail?
Almost everyone appreciates the elegance that Apple brings to design. To what extent is our actual and perceived reliance on mobile phone's dependent on it failing elegantly?
Update: Looks like the Nano reset involves a game of one-handed Twister. Cheers GP.
Writing from Narita | May 10, 2007 | Permalink
Colour Coded Options
Glasses colour coded according to lens strength - for customers of a money changing booth at Narita Airport.
Which colour to associate with what strength lenses? Why? To what extent are assumptions about the meaning of (which) colours based on culture? What do these colours imply for this booth's multi-cultural audience?
Writing from Narita | | Permalink
Business Model Innovation
Is it possible to profitably provide consumers with cellular connectivity for 2 or 3 dollars a month?
As much as I like seeing field research make it into product, my personal pick of last week's announcements was Wireless Village [press release 0.2MB, PDF] currently being trialled in India. Why? Because it takes an existing and well known service setup - providing cellular connectivity and re-designs the task process signing-up customers, billing, invoicing, service support to suit local conditions. If, as expected the trial benefits all the parties involved (consumers, local entrepreneurs, micro-finance organisations, operators, my employer) this could have significant impact in connecting the next billion.
And why the photo of a tree? The eagle eyed amongst you will have spotted the extended cell phone antenna between the branches.
Writing from Tokyo | May 7, 2007 | Permalink
Research in Motion
Those of you who have followed our published research in places like India and Uganda might want to check out this recent launch of new products that include features specifically addressing the needs of consumers in these cultures. (I'm not normally that keen to point to press releases but I'll make an exception because of its relevance to our research).
In a number of countries a phone kiosk is often little more than a local entrepreneur armed with a mobile phone. In fact in Cairo the venerable Nokia 5100 is currently the phone kiosk operators mobile of choice, and in Uganda initiatives like the Village Phone [PowerPoint, PDF 2MB] extends kiosk coverage to rural areas. In these contexts it is common for customers to agree the price of a call with the kiosk operator in advance - so that they are not liable if the call time goes over to the next unit. In fact in Uganda its common to see signs declaring 'one unit/minute = 57 seconds' - since many phone kiosk operators cut the call at 57 seconds. Obviously the easiest way to avoid going over the agreed time is to build in a pre-set time and/or cost cap which is not offered as standard on the Nokia 1200 and 1208 [product spec, 0.2MB, PDFs] models. Better visualisation of the current call time also makes it easier for phone owner's to track their personal use.
These products also recognise that highly price sensitive consumers are more likely to share their mobile phone - a significant use-issue given that, by and large they are designed as personal communication devices. Yes, more mature readers may also remember that the very first mobile phones were so expensive that they also supported shared use - after all how many people could afford to own a phone by themselves? So yes, we have indeed come full circle. Anyhow, both models support the use of 5 phone books - enabling family members and/or colleagues to maintain a higher degree of privacy and organisation.
If you one of those lucky people with uninterrupted access to electricity you probably consider a torch-on-a-phone to be a nice but trivial feature (both model's include easy to access torch functionality). Thoughts on digital fire flies can be found here.
And these photos? From last year's field study on shared phone use in Uganda [essay, PowerPoint, PDF, 7MB].
Writing from Tokyo | | Permalink
Packaging Becomes
Bottles of South African wine in a package designed to look like, and including a working radio.
The extent that cheaper componentry makes this kind of more packaging economically viable. The extent to which it changes the perceived value of the product at purchase i.e. the product becomes more of a souvineer. The extent to which it changes the perceived value of the product during consumption. And as more technology can be squeezed onto everything smaller/cheaper the likelihood that we'll see more of this rather than less.
And the wine stereo? Picked up by Uleshka on a recent visit to the southern hemisphere.
Writing from Tokyo | May 6, 2007 | Permalink
Attitudes to Shoes
Ikenoue house party, entrance hallway.
What the brands/types of footwear say about the tastes, aspirations, life-styles, density of the people inside. What the haphazard means of placing these shoes says about people's priorities. Whether someone who doesn't share these priorities e.g. the owner of a new pair of glistening white Nike Sweatshop's goes with the flow, or tries to create some order.
And the extent to which the same base motivations that apply in this context can also be applied to something like a temporary digital storage space shared by members of a peer group. For example? For example - an ad-hoc digital jukebox.
Cheers R~&U~!
Writing from Ikenoue | | Permalink
Kids + Beer
A non-alcoholic beer targeted at Japanese kids who want to drink along with their parents - the head is formulated to behave much like its alcoholic counterpart (though I doubt if jr-kun is also taught to throw up in the gutter after catching the last train back to the Tokyo 'burbs).
Thoughts for today: cultural attitudes towards providing child-friendly copycat products versus engaging a child with the real thing. The long term effect of engaging with a category of product (in an 'reduced' form such as 'fake' beer) at an early age? Or the reverse - of keeping a product out of kids hands. And in a world of conception-to-cradle-to-grave meta data, the ability to track the effectiveness of an early exposure to a particular product category or brand. Taking it full loop, the consequences of now-grown-up kids/parents/ authorities/trade associations/companies knowing the impact of early exposure. And of course how it affects what we design/choose not to design.
Digital equivalents of kids beer?
Writing from Tokyo | May 4, 2007 | Comments (3) | Permalink
Extreme Personalisation
An unexpected surprise of last week's Istanbul visit was coming across these working Nokia phones hacked/customised by Mehmet Erkök, industrial design lecturer at İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi's Department of Industrial Product Design.
Click to enlarge photos - worth seeing the detail.
The extent to which different forms of personalisation demand compromise e.g. removing the keypad, adding new buttons. Or are complimentary e.g. moving an icon for a commonly used application higher in the menu hierarchy.
Photos of mobile phones taken by and used with kind permission of Mehmet Erkök.
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Acceptable Margins of Error
A minor earthquake rippled across Tokyo last night - feeling somewhat like a warm welcome-back nudge.
What, if anything does this have to do with Istanbuli close-to-the-edge parking? It reminds me that people living in areas with a high incidence of earthquakes are more likely to place (breakable) objects further away from droppable edges.
Yeah you're right - this photo weakens my argument, but I suspect that the Turkish attitude to 'make do' overrides any consideration for earthquakes.
Writing from Tokyo | May 3, 2007 | Permalink
(Un) Neutral Colours
My local park, Komazawa Koen has re-laid the cycle lanes using a blue that has a particularly significant meaing in Japan - blue tarp is widely used as shelter material for homeless people and can be found wrapped around wooden frames in most parks and recreational spaces in Tokyo.
Related: PingMag story on homelessness in Osaka and Kim Nurri's work on the use of blue in Tokyo.
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Standing Clear (as the dog sniffs)
Everyone else on the Turkish Airline flight appeared to be over 65 - part of a sprightly tour group, bless 'em. They're agent had (probably) booked the entire plane which was why, at the last moment I was able to get a seat (and pleasantly avoid the 5 extra hours of an indirect flight via Munich or London). When a seat becomes free I'm are left to mull why this passenger is no longer travelling. A glass of wine leaving Istanbul - wake up taxiing to the gate in Tokyo. Customs at Narita feels like home though that's not necessarily a good thing. Home can be many things, but not an airport surely.
If you wanted to smuggle goods from Turkey into Japan would you only carry hand-luggage and consequently aim to be first going through the luggage customs check? No, didn't think so. Would be smugglers should consider reading about order effects before timing their gauntlet run.
Three weeks before our next field study starts in earnest - a team to assemble, methods to be honed, equipment to buy, routes to be planned and in amongst it all, fun to be had.
Writing from Shibuya | | Permalink
Globalisation of the Anti-Globalisation Movement
'Buy nothing day' sticker on an Istanbul lamp post.
I probably heard the word 'globalisation' mentioned more times in one week in Istanbul than the last few years combined - a response perhaps its very real affect on mainstream Turkey. Given the depth, richness and strength of Turkish culture I was surprised not to hear more about the reverse flow of culture.
Writing from Tokyo | | Permalink
More Spaces, Invaded
In Taksim, Istanbul.
Context is everything so (how) does the meaning of Space Invaders change from a city like Tokyo to Istanbul, a city with significant urban growth and consequent land right issues?
Interest piqued? Consider reading Robert Neuwirth's shadow cities with related topics covered on his web site Squatter City.
Writing from Tokyo | May 2, 2007 | Permalink
Stencilled
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Things that Hover
A bag hook supporting a higher range of distribution than simply resting the bag on knees.
Alternative solutions from Brazil and China.
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The (Anti)Sociality of the Evil Eye
Like painting flowers on the side of a gun.
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