Introduction
To begin, the students from Split University presented three different public spaces in Split city to all the participants of the workshop. After the presentation we were divided into 4 groups. Each group discussed the findings from the different public spaces, presented by Splits students. Our group discussed the advantages and disadvantages of each public space separately and the team decided to focus its work on the Market.
Informal contextual inquiry
In the morning of day 2 we divided ourselves into two groups. The first group covered social aspect in the space while the focus of the 2nd group was on the place, disposition and architecture.
The group dealing with social aspects collected data reflecting on different interactions between sellers and buyers with, a focus on sellers. Facts were gathered while observing social movement of people, shadowing, interviewing and storytelling.
The second group focused on the architecture in the space, the way people used objects in this particular place, the patterns they used, the paths they created, artifacts in the space and those that people brought into it.
Creating worksheets / Observation discussion / Key observations / Concept building
The team spent the afternoons analyzing the material gathered on the market and creating worksheets.
We each shared our experiences and observations from the field and created a list of 21 observations in total.
Our Key observations
- Exploitable place between stalls and wall not exploited
- Working place is also a place of leisure
- Everybody carries plastic bags
- Crowded during morning, empty in the evening
- High level of communication during working hours
Seven individuals, working as one, focused its exploration on a market. For some of us the market was a place in the City we don't even know. The Market is place full of social interaction. The silence of evening and night is broken by the first rays of the sun with stories that are exchanged, laughter overcoming the voice of gossips, or anger reflected on value for money.
In five days the goal of the team was to enhance social interaction an intervention in a market. Since the place is full of oral exchange the team wanted to explore how the written language would influence this rich interaction; would it enhance it, or would it create a contra effect.
Do people want to talk? Do they want to be encouraged to talk?
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