Image Description for the Co-design Session #2 Group Discussion Whiteboard
Whiteboard with ideas generated during a large group discussion. Each group shared their urban experiences and the barriers they have encountered on the streets as well as some preliminary ideas/solutions to these issues.
Relink group
Theme: Shared Spaces For All
- less commerce focused
- multisensory & allow for respite → zones changes in texture or airburst
- who feels welcome & understand rules
- terrible smells
- welcoming for animals
- build predictability
Harmony group
Theme: Managing Conflict
- tourists/different needs
- intuitive division
- traffic signals → adaptable
- construction management
- coordinated
- pedestrian overpasses
- street furniture
- allocate street for specific usages
- fast pedestrian lanes
- dynamic barriers
- more prescriptive use of curbs
- better management of intersections
Sweet Streets group
Theme: Lost & Found
- how senses affect wayfinding
- finding people & relying on their help
- movable landmarks that are predictable
- tech to make them found easily
- fixed landmark for bearings (lights)
- some consistency
Boulevard group
Theme: Shared 4 All
- audio description (real time)
- beacons & buttons
- glasses for reading storefronts
- improve google maps
- eye contrast edging
- tactile strips
Side Thought group
Theme: Lost & Found
- remove fear & anxiety RE: getting lost & change
- learning from current examples
- provide some consistency through landmarks
- S side of street has tactile landmark
- use heat mapping to show where people go
- difficulty reading signage → use pics & icons
- how to get live info →
to reduce anxiety
- robots that roam around
- value of people: crossing guard → always on N side
- people plan where they go → how to help when things change
- culture of city →
only changing/dynamic in some areas
- letting other areas know that they may be next to become dynamic