Public space project

Overview
We were asked to select an outdoor space in which to study and to discover what makes it unique. To create an interactive opportunity for people to gain a new perspective on other participants in the space in which it was executed, we had conducted interviews and spent many hours at different times of the day. We came to the decision to choose the stock exchange, J.P. Morgan and the Federal Hall building.

Problems/opportunities
The challenges that we face after choosing the space were that the people who came to visit there were mainly tourist and where from different parts of the world. That most people came to visit the same place with preconceived notions of what there was to be experienced. When any pictures were taken they have mostly been photographed in the same places as others had. Even taking turns and asking each other to take pictures of one another in those places. The opportunities are that most had been interested in the history in several photographs had been taken throughout its existence.

Precedence / research
We interviewed a policeman about how many people were there throughout the day and into the evening. We have done short videos to document the amount of people utilize the space. We also had physically stayed there over several days and different hours. We research how the stock exchange worked, the Federal Hall building and the J.P. Morgan building history. Though all of it is very interesting. In particular the JP Morgan Car bombing photograph.

Design approach/goals
We decided to use physical activity that already occurs in the space. All people that we witnessed during our initial study lifted their hands up to their faces to take pictures. The approach we took was to ask participants to lift two transparencies of historical photographs at the places where they had been taken originally and register them to the buildings. We used the picture of JP Morgan car bombing of 1920. We liked that the space around where the photograph was taken was underutilized an unvisited. We had desired to create a mechanic in where the people would work as a team, bring the halves of the image together utilizing each other to help register the history over the top of the present to more fully the knowledge the past.

Process
The goal of our first prototypes had been to see if the mechanic of lifting transparencies were of any interest to the general public. There without any historical value and were taken a week before. This had been successful.


We continued without any historical value and used the same image from our previous prototype but we had cut it in half to see if people would put them together. There was interaction with piece though a little bit less.


Our last prototype was constructed with the historical value of the JP Morgan building,
it was about the bomb blast took place in 16, September, 1929.
we printed the bomb blast pic on transparency and went out for test.
Below is the video recorded during test.





























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