The Bus Stop (Environmental Design Proposal)

The Bus Stop

Would you like some tea and honey while you wait for the bus? Does that seem out of the ordinary, what do you do at a bus stop? Our group would like to explore what it means to wait for a bus. What it looks like to wait for a bus. What do you expect and encounter at a bus stop. This topic illustrates the mental boundaries we create without even the use of spoken word. Most will sit in silence while waiting to get on a bus, some will eavesdrop while others catch up with each other. We all have already had a preconceived notion of what the ordinary is because of what we observe. For our environmental our group will supplement a domestic setting at the Porter Bus Stop. This includes props such as throw pillows on a bench with a side table and a lamp and homey foods (and teas!) that connote a familial environment. This will hopefully provoke people going and leaving the bus and have them question how social interactions have been established without even realizing it. This means that our project is dependent on the community but we feel that is necessary because it is our message, how do we fit in our own community if we even do fit.

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