Cultivating Friction and Cross Fertilizations

SHARED EMOTIONS After careful observation and analyzing the parameters we explored, we gained the answer to explain the links between urban design and people. While all of the parameters and design tools are inter-related with multiple directions of a cycle, there are four initial elements that need to co-occur. They are; Comfort, Convenience, Discovery, and opportunity. Before these four conditions co-occur, there is no chance for any active willingness to interact and chance to feel commonality among people. While the way for people to understand the everyday situations between people on the streets of New York involves largely norms and culture, they are largely shared among people subcontiously, thus the urban features that enhance the culture encourage the sharing of culture subtly. We believe the good design features to invent and utilize therefore are the ones that provide effortless initiation of people interacting together, the features that would lead people to naturally want to engage in conversations and interactions with one another. Culture in this sense is necessarily attitute, standards and ways to treat situations and all senses and emotions that are shared among people unilaterally, hence the sense of commonality.