222258 DESIGN STUDIO IIIB: Stephanie&Matt

In terms of connecting the wellbeing points to the presidents we found that they use CONNECTING and TAKING NOTICE as the two main ones. The drive social connects everybody through how they are trying to get everybody to recognize road safety and how their actions affect everybody. They used the campaign to get a group of drivers that drive at a certain time together and to get a photo of them all. There are different types of people from ages to life situations and this gave the people an insight to other on the road. They said that driving needs to focus on people and not solo. This also relates to TAKING NOTICE because from doing this campaign it made everybody look at driving from a different perspective.

When trying to find different presidents for this topic we discovered that there were many around the world of health and anxiety and in different areas of driving. We decided to go with Drive social and Frogparking as these are two different existing campaigns that look at aspects of driving and road safety.  Drive social Drive social is a campaign that helps to reframe how people think about driving and the road. Their aim is to target all road users instead of individuals They use a safe system approach to change how people currently think and act around road safety and to make it more based on community by trying to make travelling safer through their safe system approach they are minimizing death or serious injuries. They do this by accommodating for human error Their objective is to shift the public understanding of road safety and to move people away from worst-case scenarios to a point that they are not tolerant to unsafe practices. They want people to ...

By doing the parking poll survey and putting it on social media we got a range of different responses from different people in different ages groups and mainly in Wellington. It was interesting reading some of the answers and we noticed that a lot more people then we expected had the same view around parking and the majority of them thought that parking was a source of stress and anxiety. This survey was a great way of gaining other peoples knowledge around the topic especially as there isn't a huge amount of stats in New Zealand. Answers: Why people don’t use their care frequently: -Gas prices to high -Cost of parking -some people live close to where they need to go so there is no need to drive Reasons for car use: -to get to and from work -convenience -activities and leisure -because public transport isn’t great Is parking a cause of stress and anxiety and why? -hard finding a park -car parks are too tight -Roads are too busy to be able to get...

During today's class, we had to have a mocked up brief that touched on each of the points given that were needed in the book. We had to have it printed to present into groups to get feedback as to how it was going and the readability and concept of it all. We got some good feedback on ours and everybody said that we had clearly stated idea and it was easy to read. some of the main points was to make it a bit less wordy and to sort out the presentation of the graphs in the book. FEEDBACK NOTES SH

Stephanie and I decided we had no time to waste in putting out a poll on social media to all our fellow city-dwellers, and had conversations about the possibility of physically asking other people later on if we needed more responses. Here is the poll we put out: Loading...

I conducted some web-based research into existing research on the correlation between parking and stress/anxiety/negative mental health and was surprised to find very little hard data. One very dense study I found took me 10 minutes to figure out that the conductors of the study were using the term 'stress' in parking spheres as a proxy for phrases like 'congestion', 'business', 'use', 'traffic-density' etc, and wasn't actually addressing anything to do with mental health, rather solely efficient city road planning. I did, however, find multiple articles (most of which coming from UK websites) discussing parking anxiety in semi-colloquial ways, some of which loosely referencing a certain set of statistics from the UK's AA polls. Here are some screenshots: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jo-wimblegroves/car-park-anxiety-its-a-re_b_15267800.html?guccounter=1 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/01/motorists-spe...

Of our list of city-associated stresses, we were most intrigued by: Noise pollution Lack of exposure to natural environments Parking We felt that from these interests, parking-related stress seemed to be more specific than generic natural environments, and offered more stress-factors than noise pollution. The factors we could initially think of are: - Having to leave early to make sure that finding a park won't make you late - Having to find a park that is close enough to your destination - Having to find a park in time for your appointment whatever it may be - Having to fork out for a pricey park which you need at the time - Physically having to manoeuvre the car into a tricky park/parallel park on a congested street - Being late to move the car/moving it before the parking warden finds it - Coming back to a parking ticket Overall the whole process of parking has many aspects which could become a source of stress and/or anxiety in a city-dweller and...

Stephanie and I paired up in class in Week 1.2, and after having a discussion with class mates around us about what they had researched and what intrigued people about the potential of this paper, we decided that the city-stress reading provided intrigued us the most and seemed to offer the widest range of specific possibilities. We decided to conduct our process by beginning wide and broad, and then narrowing in, so we came up with a quick list in class of all the city-related things which could cause stress, anxiety or conscious/sub-conscious negative effects on someone's mental health. Here is our list: Noise Pollution Cars and Trucks - engines/horns/reversing beeps Sirens Late night parties/rowdy neighbours/people on the street Construction noise Constant hum Murmur of people Rubbish collection services Skateboards Footsteps Light Pollution City lights/Can't see the stars at night Too light to sleep Air Pollution Fumes - cars/trucks/industrial facilit...