People require feedback in order to participate in dynamic social systems. This project addresses such feedback and how it is manifest on both urban and individual scales in the context of public transportation. Technology that is typically used as an instrument of control is repurposed to provide people with insight into how their movements through architectural space are related to those of others — a form of feedback that can provide the basis for meaningful new social interaction.

This project is part of an ongoing investigation into the possibilities that arise when design is conceptualized as a process that unfolds in social contexts. The immediate goal is to help people address difficulties that they encounter when using a major metropolitan railway station. The larger agenda is to develop a better understanding of how plastic infrastructures can be used to sustain broadly distributed forms of innovation. To this end, the project can best be described as a prototype.