Architecture Walks

In these walking workshops, participants are encouraged to enjoy their lack of expertise, to go slow, and to test naive hypotheses about why the built environment occurs in the way that it does.

The Opposite Of A Design Sprint

Sometimes, fruitful analogies vis-a-vis digital can be drawn from careful observations of what’s going on in the built environment. There is no finer teacher for learning to see systems, understand cause and effect, and appreciate the interplay of form and function, than our man-made environment.

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Sensing Bodies, Sacred Spaces

During World IA Day—Zurich 2020, Dan Klyn took 35 attendees on a walk to explore how understanding is a function of the situated-ness of human bodies, material, and equipment in space. In 4 hours, covering 4 km and 1700 years of history, this workshop enabled consideration and direct comparison of phenomena and experiences in 3 different kinds of sacred space in Zurich. Along the way, participants encountered myriad opportunities to observe the ways that up-ness, down-ness, and adjacency effect meaning in the built environment, and were asked how these examples speak to the work we do on digital products and services.