Project 3: Twenty-five Ideas
2010/03/15
1. Restaurant with moving chairs – multiple stations that have different types of food – chairs move around so your forced to eat different things with different people
2. Prismatic clock that must be viewed from 2 locations to view a time.
3. Gigantic pencil – requires multiple people to be able to use
4. A book with every other paragraph in another book
5. Horseshoe tables – this way people at the ends can talk to each other still
6. Excessively long stop lights – forces people to exit car and talk to each-other
7. Screen in cars that shows you music and information about the other people at stoplight – you can then comment on them or ask questions or talk to other people
8. Table that has a seat in the middle
9. Gaming consoles / Karaoke machines in buses
10. Ice breaker game machines in places where people are standing around
11. Pedophile buses in parks
12. Multi-person obstacles in playgrounds
13. Huge, i mean fucking giant, Umbrella – requires multiple people to hold – possible for tour groups
14. Lamp post with music – attach speakers to lamp post that plays different types of music at different times – spontaneous dance party
15. connected monitors – you can move screens from different people’s screens onto your own
16. semitransparent screens
17. before movies in movie theaters – put terminals in so the questions on the screen are a competition to answer the fastest – like the things on planes now – let there be prizes for the winner
18. beeping shopping carts – encourage people to be closer to each other – giggity
19. cell phones call out who is calling – forcing conversation about who calling – “how do you know bob” “who’s kristen again?”.
20. global nerf gun fights – bullet is only usable by a single gun – forces you to find the person you shoot it at to get your bullet back
21. washable markers places around a building – encourages creative art on different surfaces, along with people able to build off what others do
22. remove stalls from bathrooms
23. building wide trackers – of coworkers and guests ect.
24. escalators with large steps that can accommodate multiple people
25. in stores – get tickets for the product that you want – and central location to pick up the items – allows people to inquire about the items of different people
