Model
Cafe Observation
Expertise: Civic & Public | Strategy | Photography
Design: November 2023
In this project, I began by observing how people move, sit, wait and circulate—mapping their behaviour within the café space at the British Museum.
A place is a set of rules that governs people’s behaviour.
People negotiate their own relationship with the boundaries of such rules.
Partly occupy space
Expand the border of place
Preemptively occupy space
Design begins with observation. By translating behavioural patterns into visual rules, I developed a spatial prototype. Inspired by Conway’s Game of Life, this grid-based system reflects how people shape space by avoiding proximity.
Every active cell interacts with its 15 neighbouts.
Each active cell is in one of 7 possible states.
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