Feedback

Tobi: Bathing the pedestrians at the curb is a good idea. Your image of the person stepping on the panels that light up suggests interactivity with the lighting the sidewalk is also great.

Andreas: We agree that the driver needs to be alerted as to where the pedestrians are in an oncoming intersection and perhaps we can integrate this idea in the design. Tracking the pedestrians on to the windshield is being explored in Flux's group so we are hesitant to go in that direction. We would like to retain the idea of tracking the pedestrians.

Jenni: Encasing the pedestrian in a bubble of light is great for increasing the visibility of the pedestrians, especially at night. The materiality that your concept suggests is really interesting. It would need some kind of embedded lighting that we could look into.

Lauren: The mapping of the pedestrian's zones vs the drivers zone gave us an interesting perspective of the intersection. It expands the territory of the pedestrians and shows it goes beyond the existing parameters. It also brings up the question whether the existing zones are good enough for the actual behavior of the pedestrians crossing. Lighting up these pedestrian zones is a good way to alert the drivers where pedestrians will cross.

Jenny: The idea of making the crosswalks interactive and changing according to what is going on in the intersection is good. The class felt it integrates everyone's idea so far and is cohesive with the other groups designs. We felt that this might be an good direction to go because it poses exploration into new lighting materials, such as imbedded fiber optics, translucsent concrete, and light defracting color pigments and resonance with light diffusing pigments. It also refers back to everybody's design proposals so far.


Lyn and the class were enthusiastic about the idea of interactive crosswalks. How do you guys feel about this? It incorporates alot of our ideas so far. If you do then we can start designing how this would work. Lauren and Jenny can go to the materials library and start thinking about how this could be applied.