Guerrilla Wars in Everyday Public Spaces:Reflections and Inspirations for Designers
김재욱 / 박호성 / 조수호 / 황동범
[CS542] Internet Systems Technology: Ubiquitous City
Paper Review & Discussion
Kan Wai Michael Siu@The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityInternational Journal of Design Vol.1 No.1 2007
Introduction논문의 목적
Inspire designers to aim for more people-environment fit designs
한 줄 요약Explore the role of city users and their in-teractions with the spaces and offer de-signers a new perspective for urban de-sign.
Problem
• Government– Sets up strategies and plans– generally follows the planning principles of
administrators→ Descriptive and Explanatory
• A New Approach– Detailed studies on the everyday lives of com-
mon people→ Exploratory
Urban Design
Design Methodology
• “Case study is an ideal design for understanding and interpreting observations of social phenom-ena.”
• “Case study can investigate a contemporary phe-nomenon within its real-life context, especially if the boundaries between phenomenon and con-text are not clearly evident”
Case Study
Design Methodology
• Enable the researcher to “better understand peo-ple’s behavior in the environment… it is method of looking at action between people and their en-vironment”
• Should be unobtrusive
Observations
Design Methodology
• Interviews clearly offer an advantage in supple-mentary data collection
• “Why have people done it?”
Direct Inter-views
홍콩 시장 Case• Three sites for cases
– High population density– Full of temporary stalls, oldest market street– Typical common public spaces
1. Fu Shin Street 3. Fa Yuen Street2. Chun Yeung Street
홍콩 시장 Case
• Guerrilla war between the authorities and unlicensed hawkers– Direct confrontation are rare– Hawkers conduct business during ‘non-
office” hours of the authorities Guer-rilla war
– Hawkers insinuate themselves into the Hawker Control Teams to “survive”
User-Centric Perspective• The focus of planning and design should
be shifted from producers and products to users.
• The high degree of “person-environment fit” can be obtained with the street users participating in changing their environ-ment.
Henry Ford
A great quote from Henry Ford, regard-ing the first car he ever built:
"If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse.“
Steve JobsQ: Did you do consumer research on the iMac
when you were developing it?A: No. We have a lot of customers, and we have
a lot of research into our installed base. We also watch industry trends pretty carefully. But in the end, for something this complicated, it’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why a lot of people at Apple get paid a lot of money, because they’re supposed to be on top of these things.
• Availability of User Research?• How to integrate Inspirations into
Ideas?• Trend Setter or Follower?