Lovely New York Times article on the Rockwell designing the interaction space of an airport terminal through collaboration with a choreographer.
It’s really interesting to look at public spaces and try and work out how the ‘traffic flow’ has been designed. I did this everywhere I walked in Manchester yesterday, but I’m buggered if I can see much obvious flow that’s been designed into the public spaces…it is interesting to see where people obviously feel more comfortable than other places. The new(ish) Exchange Square has a rather obvious affordance for people to sit – and 50 foot TV screen on on of the walls…
By the way, the slideshow is really nice, I reckon they’re pretty quick to put together, and I think they’re a really powerful, reflective couple of minutes of ‘content’ that really complements the depth of the article.
(Via 37 Signals.)