Design Safari

Last week me and a few of my classmates went to London for 4 days to attend an event called Ecobuild http://www.ecobuild.co.uk/.  It is an exhibition that happens every year which gives businesses and company's the chance to advertise their new developed products which relate to sustainable design.  This was a great opportunity for us as interior design students to find out and have a better understanding of what products would fit in best for our design.

For assignment 3c This trip was a perfect opportunity to use as our primary site, a place where we were unfamiliar with and therefore felt uncomfortable in.  The London underground, the line which we travelled the most was DLR. This was mainly a lot of business people traveled on this line, this made you feel kind of out of depth, as i looked closely no one really communicated with each other, people didn't even look in your general direction, it seemed everyone was living in their own bubble and all that was going through their  mind is what they had to do that day or anything work related.

If u observe the picture everyone is either reading the paper or keeping themselves quite reserved. Everyone seems in such a rush and runs everywhere even tho the trains run every 2 Min's.  First of all you felt slightly lost as you were not sure where u were going and had to work it out on the map ( example above) where as everyone else seemed like they knew exactly where they were going and second of all you felt slightly different as everyone was dressed in formal wear, the colours worn were mostly grey, black or white, we were near enough the only ones dressed in casual clothes.
It made us feel slightly intimidated and maybe an armature to in their world, maybe even that u are getting in the their road.  A lot of questions run through your head at the time. Do i stand or sit? it may get busy and it may be hard to get off.  What do i do if i can't reach the rail to steady myself? How do you get across extremely busy carriages when the doors open on the other side of where you are currently standing. Do you apologises if you brush against someone? it is harder than is looks!!