Pacing+Cities

Steven Chen sychen@gsd.harvard.edu Sneha Khullar skhullar@gsd.harvard.edu
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The common belief that technology has quickened the pace of daily life has many sociological implications. Based on research by psychologists and physicists, the average walking speed of pedestrians, which is measured by the count of steps per unit time, can be an indicator of objective characteristics of the city. Is cultural geography also a function of walking speed? Our project questions and challenges notions of pace in relationship to urban conditions by revealing, mediating and transposing the walking speed of people between two different urban locations. This interactive artifice will act as an interface and activate an awareness of tempo between two places. Utilizing sensors, projection, and sound, users can react to the speed of pedestrians in another location and affect its movements through projective devices. Ultimately, the project seeks to reveal and affect the pace of life in cities by juxtaposing speeds of pedestrian traffic between two urban contexts, which can compare the periphery and centers of cities or between cities in diverse contexts: Beijing vs. New York, New Delhi vs. Paris, Mexico City vs. Lagos and so on.
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