The first time I read the full transcript of the last fateful transcripts of the cockpit of Air France Flight 447 I was haunted for days (published here in Popular Mechanics in December 2011). Lost with no realistic reference points of experience. Just the facts.
This morning at 6am I read a new article in The Telegraph on the same subject. Now I am haunted again. Lost with no realistic reference points of experience. Just the facts.
From the excellent essay in The New Yorker Up and then down: The lives of elevators by Nick Paumgarten a brilliant paragraph about where we stand when we stand in an elevator
“Passengers seem to know instinctively how to arrange themselves in an elevator. Two strangers will gravitate to the back corners, a third will stand by the door, at an isosceles remove, until a fourth comes in, at which point passengers three and four will spread toward the front corners, making room, in the center, for a fifth, and so on, like the dots on a die.”
How we behave in public spaces, how we design for others in public (and private spaces). There is so much to understand about our behaviour and needs in these everyday occurrences. More to come here. This and escalators, pavements, railway stations. So much designing for economy, needs and behaviour.
(I’ve also quoted other good stuff from it here)
Today also struck by Leisa’s thing this week on The Pastry Box Project about a need for wallspace and work environments. Linked. I’m always thinking how education and learning spaces need to evolve too. (Have written about this before - Learning Space bit.)
//@solle
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Ideas grow, they crawl about, they hide, they sleep, they grow again, they evolve, they become beautiful, they flutter, they fly about, maybe for a day, maybe for a week, they may even fly across the ocean, or they may end up pinned down in a book.
But
If you are lucky the idea will grow, crawl about, crawl about, hide, sleep, wake up again, grow again, crawl about, crawl about, hide again, sleep again, wake up yet again, grow again, crawl about, crawl about, hide again, sleep again, wake up yet again, grow, grow, crawl, crawl, sleep, evolve, grow so very beautiful, fly about, high, high up and feel like it lives forever.
Notes
Inspiration derived from the wonderful Woolly Bears (Pyrrharctia isabella)
//@solle
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