COMMUNITY VOICES |
Read about the role each interviewee plays in the Mitchell Street neighborhood. Community voices are a huge part of the empathetic, human-centered design. Stakeholders within the community will ultimately form the vision of the Mobile Design Box. In learning about the community, we also want to establish trust and a means of user audience satisfaction. Many will share what Mitchell Street used to be like, cultural shifts and what they would like to see in the future. COMING SOON: A engaging clip or montage from each interview.
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FURNITURE PROTOTYPING |
A goal of the Mobile Design Box is to address urban vacancy along Mitchell Street and determine the entrepreneurial needs of the community to, in support, construct a set of mobile furniture. The mobile furniture will respond to various programming needs of small business startups such as farmer’s markets attached to local urban gardens, maker spaces for local artists, and co-work and community activities. This semester’s design studio at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning has been working on 4 prototypes that will be realized with community feedback in a short survey.
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SOUNDSCAPE |
The experience of space is not solely visual. Several senses work together to shape and inform our experience of space. When we isolate individual senses, we tend to bias our understanding of an intended experience. This project consists of a series of ~10 minute recordings of Historic Mitchell Street. These recording are taken at different times of the day to facilitate a more wide spread set of recordings. The intent is not to find a single or fundamental 'sound' but to absorb the messiness unfiltered is search of the auditory discovery.
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ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENT
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Both an elevation and corner study along Mitchell Street are used to break down architectural components that define storefronts. Categories and classifications allow the viewer to contextualize, compare, contrast, conceptualize and be in multiple places along Mitchell Street at once – thinking of their experiences of space and what elements make them feel certain emotions. The intent is to define the factors and conditions that will work together in forming an aesthetically pleasing, functioning, and welcoming storefront that fits in with the historical neighborhood.
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MIND MAPS |
Within the data our team has gathered, lies similarities and layers that are synthesized using common terms and the graphic representation of a mind map. Together, each analyzed mind map will output terms that can be used in an overall taxonomy. Similarity and connection based on multiple stakeholders provides a sense of Mitchell Street to those that have not visited themselves.
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ETHNOGRAPHIC DRAWINGS |
Ethnographic drawings take the social phenomena of having a conversation and turn it into a 2D representation – the spatial notebook of a mind on paper. Each interview conducted provides a framework for creating an image of relationships that isn’t direct. The ethnographic drawings will be used in second interview for invoking additional thoughts, the ability to eliminate the need to fill in the blanks of a remembered place and to put on display the community thinking through space.
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