Project 1 - Human Interaction Research part2

The first day I arrived in Nottingham, I was quite shocked by the size of this city. Tiny is the word that I could describe. But of course there is a comparison from where I am from, Shanghai, which is a massive metropolitan. 74.61 km2 to 6,341 km2...

But the density and activity in Nottingham also surprised me so much, since there are 2 famous universities: Nottingham University and Nottingham Trent University. There are thousands of students from all over the world come here to study, and even work after graduation. Which is probably the reason that this city is full of young fashion brands, fast food restaurants, entertainments, and interesting sites.

I like to sit on the Old Market Square to watch the interaction between passers-by and the water fountain, which was redesigned by Gustafson Porter in 2004 and completed in March 2007¹.

Fig 1. Andy Jamieson. 2002. Transition of Old Market Square, before and after 2007, Nottingham.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1061609

The new designed square gets more active vibes, can really gather people all around now.

Fig 2. Old Market Square fountain. Yuan Lin. October, 2016

Fig 3. Kayvan Karimi. 2004. Bird view of Old Market Square on completion.

http://www.spacesyntax.com/project/nottingham-old-market-square/

This square is the very center of the whole city, which means every people who lives in Nottingham ever passes or goes through at least 1 time each week.

I choose here to be my first research spot. Within 1 week, I went there almost every day to film passers-by's movements, take loads of photos, chat with some random people, and therefore, search information online. I found out roughly trailers of people's movements.

Fig 4. Google map, Old Market Square.

Fig 5. Screen shots of video footage. Yuan Lin. October 2016

When the weather was bad and getting colder, I could just go for nothing, which added more difficulties for doing research. So I decided to focus on 1 busy week day/Monday and 1 weekend day. To sort a clear clue.

Fig 6. Kayvan Karimi. 2004. Pedestrian movement traces.

http://www.spacesyntax.com/project/nottingham-old-market-square/

Fig 7. Screen shots of video footage and diagram of pedestrian movement. Yuan Lin. October 2016

Fig 8. Process for designing the diagram of human interaction. Yuan Lin. October 2016.

Which came out:

And my infographic result turned out to be:

Fig 8. Final infographic of human interaction on Old Market Square. Yuan Lin. October 2016

References:

1. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Old Market Square (online).

Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Market_Square [Accessed 28 October 2016].

Fig 1. Andy Jamieson. 2002. Transition of Old Market Square, before and after 2007, Nottingham(online).

Avalibale at: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1061609 [Accessed 28 October 2016].

Fig 2. Yuan Lin. October, 2016. Old Market Square fountain. Unpublished.

Fig 3. Kayvan Karimi. 2004. Bird view of Old Market Square on completion (online). . Avalibale at:

http://www.spacesyntax.com/project/nottingham-old-market-square/ [Accessed 28 October 2016].

Fig 4. Google map, Old Market Square (online). Avalibale at:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/old+market+square/@52.95348,-1.1505939,18.04z

[Accessed 28 October 2016].

Fig 5. Yuan Lin. October 2016. Screen shots of video footage. Unpublished.

Fig 6. Kayvan Karimi. 2004. Pedestrian movement traces (online). . Avalibale at:.

http://www.spacesyntax.com/project/nottingham-old-market-square/ [Accessed 28 October 2016].

Fig 7. Yuan Lin. October 2016. Screen shots of video footage and diagram of pedestrian movement.

Unpublished.

Fig 8. Yuan Lin. October 2016. Process for designing the diagram of human interaction. Unpublished.

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