I think we have an awesome topic and hopefully one we can work on together through to the end. With the blend of skills in our team I think we will arrive at a much better outcome if we all add our own skills into the project.
Please think about research methods and research areas we can use to help us build up information to support our project.
Some methodologies I can think of that might be helpful are:
- Literature review
- Statistical Analysis
- Cultural probe (how do people organise their travel and/or social life)
- Focus group
- User Testing
Some research areas I have thought of are:
- Intelligent systems, algorithms that can manage complex interactions of variables
- Democratisation of space, urban futures to 2020, what ideas exist that empower people to control the functioning of their cities or towns (e.g. flash mobs, http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/guerilla-games-thousands-to-hit-ikea-for-game-of-hide-and-seek-20100819-12ljq.html)
- The assessment of Sustainability innovations (to ensure our ideas can be justified)
- City movement monitoring and analysis, can people be tracked to capture their movements and preferences? (Arup are already doing this)
- Traffic management systems and their integration into Public transport and other systems
Please write back with your own ideas, there are many angles we can take in this project, working out the best ones will be difficult, so the more we have the better off we will be.
John
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