informal urban practices swap market FOILO 2010

STUDIO TITLE: Informal Urban Practices

Semester 2, 2010TUTOR: Rochus & Mick

STUDENT NAME: Jiazhen Chen (KEN)STUDENT NUMBER:

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1. Project presentation

The purpose of this project established a “slow” opportunities for citizens to relax in a fast-paced city. We are challenging the current materiality value, but also the immateriality value.

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PROJECT NAME: SWAP MARKETSWAP MARKET is an activity of exchange by which physical objects or services are directly exchanged for other physical objects or services without using money.

We investiaged people’s activity engage with our swap practices. Comine with our purpose, we found people enjoy an interactive action in a informal placeurban and citizens’daily activities are closely linked, make good use of informal space can release the stress of city and superinducing littile harmony.




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2. Project description

In Melbourne, informal barter run online popularly in local and overseas. They reclaimed and deal with ‘unwanted things’ by swapping into ‘want things’. Their strategies, terms and instruc-tions are varying. This informal swapping activity challenges current money economic system. It is out of the boundaries of existing tax and value ratio. Currently, tax and money are the major indicators in values of a product, service or information.

In 2010, there are more than half the human live in urban. By 2030, the world’s urban population is likely to exceed 60%.With the developing of the city; people’s living style tends to a fast-paced. The urban and life become much more heaviness than ever before.

We want to people join our swap market, slow their tempo and they can relax themselves in a fast-paced city.

Why we using “swap market”?Firstly, “swap” is an informal trading. People can swap treasures with their “useless” goods. Secondly, we think market is a open and space, people can roaming, picking stuff, communicate with other and enjoy a “leisurely” mood.




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3. Learning Testimonial

UPPER POOL STUDIO LEARNING OBJECTIVES STATEMENT

In upper pool studio I learnt how to develop my motivation and design practice capabilities and knowledge. I learnt more methods of project document. Improved design skills such as drawing and concept develop through communicate with each other. Communication is an important part in interpersonal relation. From communiaction we can present our idea better, also gain new know knowledge to developing our concept. Good time management: planning, action and reflections weekly then I develop my project with these new experiences every week. Learning how to join a team work through communicate with group members, undertaking part of work, finishing own part nicely and never be absented. I learnt people’s behaviours in different occupation, age, timing and location. In addition, I learnt how to make a sustainable design with interactive action and recycle material.

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SPECIFIC STUDIO LEARNING OBJECTIVES STATEMENT

In informal urban practices studio, I learnt how to develop my “interest” to improve my study motivation such as research overseas examples. I grown my own learning system in this studio: document my work weekly then share with other people, apply these feedback in next work and communicate each other with my new experience again, therefore I continue develop concept with this capabilities. In this studio learn new methodologies like interview, observation and adjustment. We can get information directly by interview. Through observation and adjustment, we can engage with it deeply. We investigated people’s activity through set up a “game”. We found people need a space to release their stress and city needs a “slow” method to adjust itself as well. Therefore, we use these new methodologies to create a swap market. From the experiment, we found a light and mobile booth is an ideal booth for face to face barter. In the following weeks, we continue to investigate the value of the swap objects. We found people would like to swap with some low price and special stuff such as second hand books, hand-made crafts with different culture. Depends on different time and location, we developed three swap systems.From the whole project I found “interactive” can bring energy to a design project and think what the users’ thinking, investigate their activity is important.

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Learning Contract & Revised Learning Contract

RMIT Industrial Design

UPPER POOL DESIGN STUDIOS – LEARNING CONTRACT

Your name: Jiazhen Chen (KEN) Your student number: S3191677 Your student email address:[email protected] Which studio tutorial are you undertaking this semester?

Informal Urban Practices

Tutor’s name: Rochus & Mick

GRAP 1034 Design Studio 4

Grap 1035 Design Studio 5


Read the attached different level of expectations for different levels 4, 5 & 6 of studio courses.

PA Pass50-59%

CRCredit60- 69%

DIDistinction 70- 79%

HDHighDistinction 80- 100%

What level studio course are you enrolled in this semester?

Please circle the grade that you are aspiring to attain in this course. Your lecturer will then have a clear idea of your actual level of your commitment to the course in view of what you aim to learn and how you aim to demonstrate that learning through assessment tasks: (see over for description of what each grade means)

Briefly discuss what capabilities you are aiming to learn / develop and what challenges you will set for yourself in this studio tutorial:

I like this kind “cross” course.I am curious to know what intrtior design student learing.In this studio, I am hoping to know what is relationship between interior design and industrial design or the interactive of people ,object and public space. How to manage lots people with a small space? Does city chang people’s life? I think this course will be interesting to find that way.

In signing and lodging this form I agree to • an active class participation rate of no less than 80% (minimum 80% attendance and participation) • engaging in all peer review and presentation activities • submit all assessment tasks on the due date as specified by the tutorial outline

Signed: 陈家桢. Date:19/10/2010

RMIT Industrial Design

UPPER POOL DESIGN STUDIOS – LEARNING CONTRACT

Your name: Jiazhen Chen (KEN) Your student number: S3191677 Your student email address:[email protected] Which studio tutorial are you undertaking this semester?

Informal Urban Practices

Tutor’s name: Rochus & Mick

GRAP 1034 Design Studio 4



Read the attached different level of expectations for different levels 4, 5 & 6 of studio courses.

PA Pass50-59%

CRCredit60- 69%

DIDistinction 70- 79%

HDHighDistinction 80- 100%

What level studio course are you enrolled in this semester?

Please circle the grade that you are aspiring to attain in this course. Your lecturer will then have a clear idea of your actual level of your commitment to the course in view of what you aim to learn and how you aim to demonstrate that learning through assessment tasks: (see over for description of what each grade means)

Briefly discuss what capabilities you are aiming to learn / develop and what challenges you will set for yourself in this studio tutorial:

I like this kind “cross” course.I am curious to know what intrtior design student learing.In this studio, I am hoping to know what is relationship between interior design and industrial design or the interactive of people ,object and public space. How to manage lots people with a small space? Does city chang people’s life? I think this course will be interesting to find that way.

In signing and lodging this form I agree to • an active class participation rate of no less than 80% (minimum 80% attendance and participation) • engaging in all peer review and presentation activities • submit all assessment tasks on the due date as specified by the tutorial outline

Signed: 陈家桢. Date:19/10/2010




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Project 1: Motivation

From first project I explored my motivation and interested in the informal urban practices studio. What I think informal urban is some wasted and low- utilization rate public space such as square, a path between two buildings, corner, ect. Informal urban practices are reusing that space to improving people’s living. Like the 2010 Shanghai Expo’s manifesto “better city, better life”.

I like this kind “cross” course.I am curi-ous to know what intrtior design stu-dent learing.In this studio, I am hoping to know what is relationship between interior design and industrial design or the interactive of people ,object and public space. How to manage lots people with a small space? Does city chang people’s life? I think this course will be interesting to find that way




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The beggars in Asian are quite different from the Western. In Chi-na, the beggars got hundred years history. It becomes a special culture such as “Beggar’s Chicken” (food), “The Mad Monk” (fairy tale), “The king of Beggars” (movie) and so on. Usually beggars just sit on the street with a bowl and bagging for money. Lots of them are disable people, but actually some of them are pretended. Some baggers scaming from people, as if their son or parents just died. The beggars trend toward younger age. These little beggars like fasten on passerby such as catch their cloth or hug their legs. Most of children beggars are organized by criminals. Criminals traf-ficking in children and make them become disabled. So that leads one problem: How to treat thebeggars? Some people stop giving beggars alms, because beggars have to give most of the money to criminals. Some people have other rules, like this:

If they ask for money,I gave them food;If they ask for food,I gave them money.

(briefing): Begging

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Project 2: exploration

In this project Oscar and I went to a un-familiar suburb- Albert park to explore the ‘observation’ and‘adjustment’. Ac-tually, it is a small suburb just outside the city where golf, leisurely cycling, and the strolls around the park, Os-car and I noticed was the lack of peo-ple anywhere, we realised that our first impressions weren’t much differ-ent from what we had expected. De-spite this, the area was interesting just the same and still had a lot to offer.




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The basic concept of Hop Scotch is imbedded in many minds from a young age, although it was still surprising to see how many different groups of people were up to have a go without any prompting what so ever. It was surprising to see that the hop scotch squares in more se-cluded areas were a lot more popular and people often stopped to com-plete a few rounds before carrying on with their daily activity

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Project 3: intervention action

In this project Elliot, Tim, Oscar and I (as two pairs) made a intervention action in public space. Our intervention action is“Game”-we set up some chalk Hop Scotch on the ground at different place. We found a lot of people walked right by even after noticing the hop scotch, some dodged the chalk and others like children and young girls will spring in their step spring in their step. People working in city with a fast pace, an easy public game (like hop scotch and twister) can remission their stress, and bring a smile.




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Project 4: Occupation

This project we gained the knowledge about Collingwood and its informal urban practices through a “knowledge exchange” system where giving insight into practices in the suburb is rewarded by knowledge about Melbourne. We interviewed a woman who was heavily involved in the aboriginal communities in Collingwood and stopping public drinking in the Smith Street area.

The two distinctly different time conditions we took was Saturday afternoon and Monday night The most difference thing was on the weekend people seemed to be coming from outside areas to visit Collingwood but on the Monday the people we encountered were usu-ally residents of the area.




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Project 5: market trading

We continue developing our “interest” and understanding more about informal urban practices by set up a marker trad-ing in public space. I made 20 different postcards to reflect my interest of this studio and just set up a black cloth as my market stall, that’s easy to set up and warp up. I found people like market trading, what I think is people feel friendlier and more relaxed than they are shopping in department store. Some passages walk away and come back again. Fur-thermore, we exchange postcards and ideas with each others. To sum up, market trading is quite funny and people join that as well, but it is affected by lots weather factor. So it’s better to prepare a rain protection and easy-set up equipment.




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The Gap

Mid- semester - Major Project

With the developing of the city,people’s living tends to afast-paced. The urban and lifebecome much more heavinessthan before. Why not justdisburden yourself a moment, liedown (maybe hanging) your body,release your mind and bask in thesun?What I want to do is create aspace for people to releasethemselves and re-inhabit thisspace of forgetting; infuse energyinto the city. It can be a spiderweb, birder’s nest or net crossingtwo buildings.

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What I’m interest in thealleyway, actually I amconsidering not only theroad, but also the wholespace between twobuildings; usually peopleuse that space as a carpark, garbage dump orjust leave that. Why notutilize that space?

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-Researching the wayspeople releasethemselves.-Researching smartmaterials-Designing structure ofnet.-How do people usethe new space?-Sustainable/ECOdesign

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STUDIO 4Expected level: Beginning

STUDIO 5Expected level: Consolidating

STUDIO 6Expected level: Established

STANDARD U.P. STUDIO COURSE CAPABILITIESNN P CR DI HD NN P CR DI HD NN P CR DI HD

Knowledgeable demonstrated design knowledge and its application as developed through research and design exploration x

Creative and Imaginative demonstrated application of knowledge that challenges existing situations to offer insightful new and alternative design propositions and possibilities

xConceptual demonstrated ability to conceptualise and develop ideas

based on research, exploration and experimentation xLeadership demonstrated ability to identify personal strengths weaknesses

and ways in which these may be addressed both personally and professionally

xSynthesis An ability to synthesise and make manifest these issues via

the design work within the time deadlines given by each studio xCritical demonstrated ability to analyse information and scenarios with

clarity and maturity that is mindful of diverse contemporary concerns

xReflective demonstrated capacity to reflect on propositions and ideas in a

way that enables informed opinion and response to actions xResponsible & Ethical demonstrated understanding of a range of issues and views

with an understanding of how to respond thoughtfully and appropriately with due consideration to consequences and implications

xEmployable demonstrated understanding of the professional work arena

and how to identify opportunities xStrategic demonstrated capacity to think and act with an awareness of

the broader contexts in ways that enable personal, professional and socially relevant opportunities to be identified and engaged with

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Communication to be able to clearly communicate and articulate complex design proposals through graphic, modelling, written and verbal means

xNN P CR DI HD NN P CR DI HD NN P CR DI HD

SPECIFIC STUDIO TUTORIAL LEARNING OBJECTIVESExperiment To undertake experimental approaches to creative design

research and development

Interdisciplinary player work as part of an inter-disciplinary creative design team.

Demonstrate project-specific engagement

generate and test project-specific creative techniques that examine and speculate upon informal urban practices.

recomended grading: NN P CR DI HD NN P CR DI HD NN P CR DI HD

Reviewer Name: Identify the student in their enrolled studio level. Use either the Studio 4, 5 or 6 column to rate evidence of the studentt’s capabilities at the standard of Pass Credit Distinction etc

Student Name:

Jiazhen Chen (KEN)

RMIT Industrial Design Upper Pool Design Studio – Review Design Studio 4 GRAP 1034 ; Design Studio 5 GRAP 1035; Design Studio 6 GRAP 2221 sem 2, 2010 Studio Tutorial Title:

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INFORMAL URBAN PRACTICE 1. articulate your aspirations for the studio and propose a means for self -assessment Student name: Jiazhen Chen KEN ………………………… What do you aspire to learn through

the studio? Clearly propose the most important 6 or more asp ects of learning and achievement (in few words) that you aspire to measure your work against.

Describe in detail the indicators (evidence) of quality a t the level of performance that you aspire to achieve. In less detail, describe what will indicate if you have achieved above or below your aspired level.

CRITERIA SATISFACTORY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

GOOD PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

VERY GOOD PERFORMAN CE INDICATORS

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

1 The understanding of informal urban practices

Satisfactory work that demonstrates a level of understanding of informal urban practices. Making a decision that the course is valuable but not as crucial to my development as a designer at this point in time.

Evidence of understanding of informal urban practices.

Strong work that demonstrates a level of understanding. Evidence of an appreciation of that.

Outstanding work that demonstrates an exceptionally clear understanding.

2 Independent research

Satisfactory work that demonstrates a level of research. Just from internet.

Good work that demonstrates a level of research, analyse and communicate theories. From Internet, book.

Strong work that demonstrates a level of research, analyse and communicate theories, project and their interrelationship confidently and independently. From Internet, book, interview.

Outstanding work that demonstrates a level of an excellent research, analyse and communicate theories, project and their interrelationship confidently and independently. From Internet, book, interview, Interactive activity.

3 Communication

Satisfactory work that demonstrates a level of communicate own findings and projects, and the understanding and development of these in written, design, spoken and multimedia presentations.

Evidence of understanding of solid work, good layout, clear spoken; good written and multimedia presentations.

Strong work that demonstrates a level of layout design, fluently spoken; good written and multimedia presentations.

Outstanding work that demonstrates a level of logistic written, fluently spoken, attractive layout and multimedia presentations.

4 Team work

Join the team work, but didn’t do anything. Just shirking

Join the team work every time, undertaking a part of

Join the team work actively; undertaking and good finish

Join the team work actively; manage everything. Good

job a part of job. leadership. 5 Concept

Briefly concept Clear concept with development.

Good concept with development.

Creative concept with good reflects of “interest”/understanding of informal urban practices.

6 Outcome

Outcome follows the main concept

Outcome follows the design concept and it will be worked

Outcome follows the design concept and it will be worked.

Outcome follows the design concept and it will be worked. Attractive, nice finish , sustainable

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INFORMAL URBAN PRACTICE 1. articulate your aspirations for the studio and propose a means for self -assessment Student name: Jiazhen Chen KEN ………………………… What do you aspire to learn through

the studio? Clearly propose the most important 6 or more asp ects of learning and achievement (in few words) that you aspire to measure your work against.

Describe in detail the indicators (evidence) of quality a t the level of performance that you aspire to achieve. In less detail, describe what will indicate if you have achieved above or below your aspired level.

CRITERIA SATISFACTORY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

GOOD PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

VERY GOOD PERFORMAN CE INDICATORS

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

1 The understanding of informal urban practices

Satisfactory work that demonstrates a level of understanding of informal urban practices. Making a decision that the course is valuable but not as crucial to my development as a designer at this point in time.

Evidence of understanding of informal urban practices.

Strong work that demonstrates a level of understanding. Evidence of an appreciation of that.

Outstanding work that demonstrates an exceptionally clear understanding.

2 Independent research

Satisfactory work that demonstrates a level of research. Just from internet.

Good work that demonstrates a level of research, analyse and communicate theories. From Internet, book.

Strong work that demonstrates a level of research, analyse and communicate theories, project and their interrelationship confidently and independently. From Internet, book, interview.

Outstanding work that demonstrates a level of an excellent research, analyse and communicate theories, project and their interrelationship confidently and independently. From Internet, book, interview, Interactive activity.

3 Communication

Satisfactory work that demonstrates a level of communicate own findings and projects, and the understanding and development of these in written, design, spoken and multimedia presentations.

Evidence of understanding of solid work, good layout, clear spoken; good written and multimedia presentations.

Strong work that demonstrates a level of layout design, fluently spoken; good written and multimedia presentations.

Outstanding work that demonstrates a level of logistic written, fluently spoken, attractive layout and multimedia presentations.

4 Team work

Join the team work, but didn’t do anything. Just shirking

Join the team work every time, undertaking a part of

Join the team work actively; undertaking and good finish

Join the team work actively; manage everything. Good

job a part of job. leadership. 5 Concept

Briefly concept Clear concept with development.

Good concept with development.

Creative concept with good reflects of “interest”/understanding of informal urban practices.

6 Outcome

Outcome follows the main concept

Outcome follows the design concept and it will be worked

Outcome follows the design concept and it will be worked.

Outcome follows the design concept and it will be worked. Attractive, nice finish , sustainable

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In Melbourne, informal barter run online popularly in local and overseas. They reclaimed and deal with ‘unwanted things’ by swapping into ‘want things’. Their strategies, terms and instruc-tions are varying. This informal swapping activity challenges current money economic system. It is out of the boundaries of existing tax and value ratio. Currently, tax and money are the ma-jor indicators in values of a product, service or information. The values of visible objects are fluctu-ated by the time and needs. However, we cannot evaluate immateriality items by money or tax. In this project, we are challenging the current materiality value, but also the immateriality value.

Aristotle said: “People came to the city in order to survive, to live better and stay in the city”

In 2010, there are more than half the human live in urban. By 2030, the world’s urban population is likely to exceed 60%.With the developing of the city; people’s living style tends to a fast-paced. The urban and life become much more heaviness than ever before. Online social network, highly efficien-cy are emphasised which led less directed conversations and interactions. As a result, physical and mental problems become worse, such as stress, obesity, cancer, etc. The city needs to ‘slow down’. The purpose of this project established a “slow” opportunities for citizens to relax in a fast-paced city.

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The trading method need to be improved. Ideally, the equipments for objects swap are better to be more attrac-tive. Objects that we swap are ideally out of students’ ex-pectation. In the following weeks,we would like to exanimate other methodologies for swap-ping. Besides, improved the facilities of objects swapping will be take place.




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swap is a method of exchange by which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money. (wiki)

markets

In Spain (particularly the Catalonia region) there is a growing number of exchange markets. These barter markets or swap meets work without money. Participants bring things they do not need and exchange them for the unwanted goods of another participant. Swapping among three parties often helps satisfy tastes when trying to get around the rule that mon-ey is not allowed.(wiki)

Gift economy

In the social sciences, a gift economy (or gift culture) is a society where valuable goods and services are regularly given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards.Ideally, simulta-neous or recurring giving serves to circulate and redistribute valuables within the community. The organization of a gift economy stands in contrast to a barter economy or a market economy. Infor-mal custom governs exchanges, rather than an explicit exchange of goods or services for money or some other commodity.(wiki)




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International Reciprocal Trade Association is the global trade association for the modern trade and barter industry.

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SwapTreasuresBartering network to swap, barter, trade things online for free. Members can barter things on-line such books, movies, games, clothes, and services.

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We approach to 1 participant every time in different locations. we ask them to engage in this activity

• Participators’ reaction and swapping items are more controllable

• However it is low efficiency and we need to explain our purpose and format every time

• Participators are passive to answer our questions.

• Two participators swapping indirectly, Swapping IUP provides advertising and storage for them to drop down their items

• Participator’s reaction is uncontrollable but the swap-ping items are controllable

• It is more efficiency because we published our purpose and expected items on a poster

• People’s assumption and the security of items are threats in this format. Conversations can be created when the assumptions was cleared between people.

• It is open end format. more than 2 participators join in one activity at the same time adn location.

• They can keep swapping their items again and again until they satisfied with what they have.

• We hold an event in a location with event promotions. We require participators prepare at least one items (physical, knowledge and sensations) for bartering.

• It is the most efficiency format among 3 methodologies.

• More than one pair of participators engages in one event at one location

• More promotion is essential on various online social networks

• Participators are self- directed in the swapping items. Participators understand that they need to motivate themselves to star a conversation before they swap their items successfully.




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Location: RMIT cafe, QV food court, melbourne central food court

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For first testing, we try to swap with music and images by laptop. The purpose of this activity is investigating people with the item they want to swap, location and time. From experi-ence, we found all most them are students and they like to swap songs because normally they have lots music in laptop.




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This week, we want to test two kinds swap: object swap and information swap. Also we try to test a sustainable swap sys-tem. We start with a bag chips and joke, put them in font of left. We want to explore people’s reflections with that “self-swap”. The resolute is not good, people think it’s a prank and no one would like to tough an unknown food. For the experience, we think face to face swap is better.

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Fold booth: easy to set up Problem:heavy made with mdf and timer

Through the investigation from last two weeks, this time we set up a fold booth and bring some second hand book, crafts to swap. The purpose of this swap action is investigating the value of objects. We col-lected second hand books form RM IT library, bring some hand-made crafts and laser cut some book-marks. We set up our booth both indoor and outdoor.




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Location: RMITTime: lunch time

We found two situations: 1, people didn’t find anything they want.2, people didn’t prepare any thing to swap, they don’t have any “useless” thing with them.




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We found people like to swap some cute crafts such as book mark and pendant. We were droved by security; because of we don’t have the permission. So we had to pack off pur fold booth, moving to another place and set up again. Next time we are going to use a trolley as a mobile swapping. Weekend lunch time and afternoon is a good timing for our activity

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Location: Dockland, Time: Saturday lunch time and afternoon

This week we focus on swapping with services, objects and information. We run our mobile booth at dockland next to designers market. We choose our location carefully, co that we catch as many pedestrians as we could but out of market area. We ask people pick their favourite souve-nirs, then we start our conversations about what did they brought, the feeling of today, what did they visit, etc. it seems they swapping the souve-nirs by spending their time, emotions and infor-mation. While we were chatting, we start object swap activity. A graphic design student would like to swap a butterfly souvenir with a batch that she bought in the market.




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From the activities, we recognize that people would like get a ‘free’ souvenirs/ objects by spending their time and start a conversation for a few minutes. Family and students are interestedin our souvenirs. Kids always initiate to ap-proach our booth.




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This time we are making a swap network. The purpose is to see people swap and communicate with others. We plan to do our activities indoor in building 8 and 88. We ask them to get a bookmark or craft object by motivated themselves to start a conversation with someone they don’t know in computer labs. It gives their opportunity to enlarge their social network in campus. Also they get a rest and escape form the assignments.

Location: RM IT university Building 8 Level 11 Time: Thursday 4-6pm




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We put advertisings everywhere




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We made a poster first and place it everywhere even inside the leaser cut machine. We set up a swap mar-ket space in building 8 level 11 during 4-6p.m. we think it end of class, so people will attention us longer. But, because of it is end of semester, students all busy their exam or assessments, we only got few visitors.

However, a boy who read posters and came to our ac-tivity. He brought a pack of sushi for swapping. He felt this activity is interesting and curious to try. Finally, he was willing to swap a pack of sushi with a handcraft key tag with laser cut decoration.




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This test we make a swap service. We create a “SWAPPING IUP” page and activity on facebook, people can find the object or service they would like to swap or leave their want.




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We investiaged people’s activity engage with our swap practices. Comine with our purpose, we found people enjoy an interactive action in a informal place such as street and square. We try to hold our activity in both outside and inside, we found an open space would catch more attention. The first problem for the interactive action is “trust”, people might think it’s a prank To clear up people’ suspicion, we need show us honest during chat with people. Communication is an important part in interpersonal relation. From communiaction we can present our idea better, also gain new know knowledge to developing our concept. Another point we found is “value”, it is hard to balance a common value from everyone, even we challenge the existing monetary system. During pervious experiments we found people like to swap some low value stuff such as crafts,music and secound hand book,ect. To sum up, urban and citizens’daily activities are closely linked, make good use of informal space can release the stress of city and superinducing littile harmony.

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informal urban practices swap market FOILO 2010