Notes on Environment Intervention

Consider a few different kinds of environments that support activities.

Highly Single-Use

• My office, designed for computer work. Not ideal for meetings.
• Fields, Courts; most spaces-where-sports-happen.
• Photography Darkroom
• A Walk-in Closet

Switching Multi-use

• A community stage
• The IMM studio
• Squash/Racketball court
• Dining Rooms (eating, board games, studying)

Concurrently Multi-use

• A kitchen for filming a cooking show
• An interview space where others can observe, unseen
• A playground
• Coffee Shops for (working, socializing, etc) and enjoying coffee

Now consider different categories of intervention: add, remove, encourage, discourage, and alter.

• Add. Add a new activity to an environment. Also a game for people socialize over at a bus stop.
• Remove. Prevent or stop the environments activity. Install a Bike-share at a bus stop.
• Encourage. Support, multiply, encourage an environments spaces. Make a Bus stop more comfortable, entertaining. (Support the act of ‘waiting’)
• Discourage. Decrease or deemphasize the environments activity. Provide up-to-date bus time information (Create less need for waiting at a bus stop)
• Alter. Change the intended activity to something else. Turn the bus stop into a sidewalk art gallery.

Topics

Productivity

• Pomodoro Timer
• Alexa + Children management

Discussion and Collaboration

• Whiteboard rooms
• Miro Boards
• Ideation

Break

• Kindergarten Classrooms
• Libar